Which of the following was First Painter to King Louis XV, head of the Royal Academy in Paris, and a favorite of the Marquise de Pompadour?
A. Watteau
B. Boucher
C. Vigée-Lebrun
D. Fragonard
B
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During the late 1800s, the success of a song was determined by:
a. radio play b. the number of 78 r.p.m. recordings sold c. amount of sheet music sold d. number of minstrel show adaptations of it
Which of the following statements is true?
a. The blues and ragtime are predecessors of jazz. b. Jazz and ragtime are predecessors of the blues. c. The blues and jazz are predecessors of ragtime. d. Blues, jazz and ragtime are unrelated musical styles.
Romanticism might be said to have rebelled against all of the following EXCEPT
A. reason. B. industrialization. C. individualism. D. religious authority.
In Baroque operas and cantatas, what emotion was associated with a bass line
that descended by step, particularly when the composition was in a minor key?
a. courage, valor b. contentment c. joy, frivolity d. love e. grief, lamentation