John Williams, who composed the music for the Star Wars films, adapts two of the most distinctive features of _____________ music: lavish and varied orchestration and the _____________

A) Mozart's; use of too many notes

B) Handel's; use of melismatic passages

C) Wagner's; leitmotif

D) Cage's; prepared piano

E) Schoenberg's; twelve tone series


C

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