During the era of the Vietnam War, the avant-garde in Europe and the United States was preoccupied with communal performance groups, environmental staging, and angry political messages
a. true
b. false
a. true
You might also like to view...
Which of the following instruments is typically part of a musical layer in a Carnatic music ensemble?
A. a sruti layer played on a mridangam. B. a sruti layer played on a nagasvaram. C. a melodic layer played on a veena. D. a percussion layer played on a sruti-box or tambura.
How are Beethoven’s symphonies different from those composed by Haydn and Mozart?
What will be an ideal response?
Which statement best describes the work of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath?
a. wrote self-consciously metaphysical stories about labyrinthine fictional worlds b. dealt principally with African-American characters and social life c. composed poetry in a "confessional" vein, with graphic images of female sexuality d. was strongly influenced by the Beatles and other groups of 1960s rock-and-roll
What other musical technique went hand in hand with clear contrasts between major and minor keys, as well as with abrupt changes in orchestration?