The earliest brief playlets may have grown out of chanted or sung phrases incorporated

into Mass as an embellishment or commentary on a religious lesson. What were these
chanted or sung phrases called?



What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Tropes

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Which of the following was First Painter to King Louis XV, head of the Royal Academy in Paris, and a favorite of the Marquise de Pompadour?

A. Fragonard B. Watteau C. Vigée-Lebrun D. Boucher

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The __________ is a polyphonic choral work

A) sonata B) madrigal C) cantus D) motet E) homophony

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What is best described with the term pendentive?

a. triangular supports for the weight of a dome b. hanging icons in Byzantine churches c. decorated space beneath a rounded arch d. ability of God to see the future

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