Why have Handel's oratorios remained popular to the present day?
a. The words are in English, and the biblical stories are familiar.
b. The kings and queens of England loved his work, and everyone follows the opinions of the nobility.
c. People like to sing the fast running passages in his choral sections.
d. Churches signed an agreement to always perform parts of Messiah at Christmas and Easter.
a
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The Salon refers to
a. an official art exhibition. b. a room in a château. c. a room in a private Paris apartment. d. an art gallery.
With reference to time characteristics,
A. a Western meter is absent. B. the selection is in duple/quadruple meter. C. the selection is in triple/compound meter. D. the meter is echoed in the drone part.