__________ provides a foil to familiar musical material, providing variety,
novelty, excitement, and even musical conflict.
a. contrast
b. dissonance
c. variation
d. consonance
e. tremolo
A
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a. Bologna b. Oxford c. Cambridge d. Paris
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A. upper B. lower C. middle D. collegiate
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