Name several "Eastern ideas" that impacted art music composition in America in the twentieth century.
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John Cage experimented with Eastern timbres and instruments, including the Indonesian gamelan. Henry Cowell was very interested in the music of East Asia, and his piano experiments reflected non-Western effects. This includes a focus on timbre rather than harmony, and dividing rhythms into uneven segments rather than binary rhythms.
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What do Antoni's Touch and Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room) have in common?
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Which of the following types of staging is most appropriate to theatricalism?
A. Traditional staging B. Representational staging C. Presentational staging D. Realistic staging
Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, and the FEKS group were the principal early exponents of Soviet Montage.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)