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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dialogue?
a. ballad b. Lied c. character piece d. leitmotif e. verismo
In The Lugubrious Game, why does Salvador Dalí position a grasshopper under his self-portrait's nose?
a. Grasshoppers symbolize death. b. Dalí was terrified of grasshoppers. c. Grasshoppers symbolize famine. d. Dalí found saw grasshoppers as phallic.
The term __________ derives from the word Atzlan, a mythical place northwest of the Valley of Mexico
A. Arizona B. Aztec C. Atlanta D. Attica
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