This listening example most significantly represents which one of the following?
A. a Shaker hymn
B. America’s virtuoso cult
C. the blues
D. music from the Omaha Indians
Answer: B
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The belief that the social class into which we are born strongly influences our hopes, our aspirations, and career choices is known as
a. economic determinism. b. existentialism. c. indeterminism. d. socialism.
Which of the following is a true statement about this work?
a) the familiar becomes unfamiliar b) it relies on the ideas of social realism c) it is a protest song d) it was composed to promote music therapy
Music with a texture combining two or more independent melodies simultaneously is considered
A) polyrhythmic. B) homophonic. C) polymedia. D) polyphonic.
Realists and naturalists wrote mostly about contemporary subjects and social conditions, creating plays that:
a. led critics to say theatre had become little better than a sewer. b. were celebrated as a bastion of moral values by conservative critics. c. depicted conditions which always had happy endings. d. gave hope and inspiration.