Write a brief essay outlining the mid-nineteenth-century debate over nationality between the “nativist” view and that of the expatriates.
What will be an ideal response?
“nativist” view: that there should evolve a distinctively American music, developing a life of its own not in the shadow of European tradition, together with an audience to appreciate and support such musican idealistic desire to express the national, the specificthe belief that music should express this place and this time expatriates’ view (or the critics’ view): a reverential attitude toward European masters (mainly Germanic)an idealistic dedication to the cosmopolitan, the universalthe belief that music should transcend place and time
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In a flexible space the relationship of performer to audience is flexible and variable when the stage is built, but the
arrangement cannot change from one production to another.
a. True b. False
The area of the stage closest to the audience is referred to as
A. upstage. B. downstage. C. stage right. D. stage left.
The author of this letter is (1); the recipient of this letter was (2).
What will be an ideal response?
Something added to enhance something else is
A. propaganda B. kitsch C. craftworks D. decoration