Explain the place of minimalism in the late twentieth-century music

What will be an ideal response?


Minimalist composers restored consonant harmony while moving forward

Effect of old and new at the same time

Reconceived the way music presents time

free listeners from marking the passage of time at comfortable intervals

slowly changing harmony, open-ended rhythm, and anonymity of performing resources help project a sense of connection to something beyond the self that is essentially spiritual

connects back to the spiritual impulse that inspired music earlier music.

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a. Grasshoppers symbolize death. b. Dalí was terrified of grasshoppers. c. Grasshoppers symbolize famine. d. Dalí found saw grasshoppers as phallic.

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What type of song relates a vivid story told in narrative verse and dramatic

dialogue?

a. ballad b. Lied c. character piece d. leitmotif e. verismo

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The term __________ derives from the word Atzlan, a mythical place northwest of the Valley of Mexico

A. Arizona B. Aztec C. Atlanta D. Attica

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Which of the following added soul jazz to the big-band repertoire and served as a Monday night "rehearsal band" at New York's Village Vanguard?

a) Stan Kenton Orchestra b) Duke Ellington Orchestra c) Woody Herman Thundering Herd d) Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra

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