What is a melodrama?

What will be an ideal response?


A melodrama is a type of theater originating in the nineteenth century in which innocent and good characters are beset by bad ones.

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The Gothic cathedrals used this from the Early Christian basilica:

a. rose windows b. gargoyles c. transepts d. flying buttresses

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Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) was the most celebrated composer in Europe

during the 1820s, far exceeding even Beethoven in fame. This was because opera was the most popular form of musical entertainment.

a. true b. false

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Extreme subjectivity and the wish to perceive a deeper reality were typical of which art movement?

A. Impressionism B. Realism C. Symbolism D. Neoclassicism

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Which national school dominated High Renaissance music?

A. the English B. the Franco-Netherlandish C. the Italian D. the German

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