What is a melisma?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: A melisma is a vocal type of phrasing in which many notes are sung to a
single syllable.
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a. Harlem b. Greenwich Village c. Soho d. The Bowery
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A. visualizing deities B. unifying the soul C. resurrecting the deceased D. visualizing loved ones
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By the 1470s, the favored texture of Renaissance composers was?
a) monophony b) chordal homophony c) non-imitative polyphony d) pervading imitation