An oratorio is best defined as
A) music originally intended for performance by a small group at aristocratic courts.
B) a lengthy and complex composition for an orchestra.
C) religious stories set to music with narrators and characters but no stage action.
D) a choral composition with musical accompaniment.
E) music made up of two or more independent and overlapping tunes.
C
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Ross Perot believed NAFTA would
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a. Kansas. b. Louisiana. c. Iowa. d. Arkansas. e. Missouri.
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A) the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494. B) the Biblical story of Noah's division of the world among his sons. C) financial transactions between Indian peoples and themselves. D) their view that Indians did not use the land properly. E) various papal decrees that privileged the claims of European Christians over those of Indian "heathens."