Accompanying hand-clapping adds what two dimensions to the mbira experience?

What will be an ideal response?


• Participation by the audience makes them part of a communal performance
• The hand-clapping adds to the polyrhythmic (polymetric) quality of the music (See examples of hand-clapping phrases for mbira music in Worlds of Music Transcription 3-17, p. 143)

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a. solo koto songs b. shakuhachi accompanied chants c. shamisen accompanied lyrical songs d. narrative songs

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a. Augustus b. Otto III c. Charlemagne d. Otto II

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How does Bach make the short text of "Thou Shalt Break Them" into an extended aria?

a) by repeating words several times and writing long melismas on key words b) by using an extended AABA form c) by incorporating an improvised trumpet solo d) by inserting a ritornello between each word

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In a canted camera position, objects on the screen appear

A. upside down. B. as seen from directly above. C. not to be level. D. as seen at ground level.

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