Monteverdi believed that in passages with very expressive text,
a. the rules could be broken to make the music more intense.
b. the compositional rules should never be compromised.
c. there should be no rules, and the emotions of the individual performer should dictate everything.
d. he had not succeeded unless the entire audience began weeping.
a
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Carole King's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" marked an important step in the development of popular music because it was the first time a woman's perspective was represented musically.
a. True b. False
Known as the "King of Swing," by the late 1930s his band was the most successful in the country. He was also one of the first band leaders to promote racial integration in his musical organization
A) Benny Goodman B) Duke Ellington C) Fletcher Henderson D) Cab Calloway
Modern, black gospel music was the result of
A. southern preachers. B. the equal rights movement. C. new church doctrine. D. the infusion of blues and jazz.
What is a sequence?
A. A resting place at the end of a phrase B. The repetition of a melodic pattern at a higher or lower pitch C. The emotional focal point of a melody D. A part of a melody