What is the "secret program" of Berg's Lyric Suite?
a) the composer's Gnostic quest for spiritual enlightenment
b) embedded musical allusions to Baroque dance forms
c) the legend of Orpheus and Euridice
d) the progression of the composer's affair with his mistress
d
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What is the “Andean ensemble phenomenon”? Name some performing groups that illustrate this phenomenon. (Examples may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
____ did not begin serious study of music until the age of twenty-three, when he began composition lessons with Rimsky-Korsakov. He eventually met Sergei Diaghilev, who commissioned him to write a ballet
A) Arnold Schoenberg B) Igor Stravinsky C) Sergei Prokofiev D) Alexander Scriabin
Which of the following is not one of the five basic elements that all art has to a certain extent?
A) A form of human expression B) Values C) Subject and medium D) Reaction E) A perception of order
The statue of Menkaure with a Queen most notably exhibits which of the following traits, typical of portraits of rulers in the Old Kingdom?
a. The figure is portrayed realistically to commemorate his individual features. b. The figure is idealized to emphasize his connection to divinity. c. The figure is sculpted in black stone to stress his connection to the Nile and rebirth. d. The figure is portrayed with a partner as a sign that no man exists in isolation.