Describe what you hear in the pitch aspects of the melody in this section that relates to the definition of kalpana swaras in Worlds of Music, p. 323
What will be an ideal response?
• The melody is made up of notes which are repeated many times. In the kalpana swaras ("imagined notes") section of an instrumental performance, the "musicians articulate or pluck each note. What is the role of the mridangam in the kalpana swaras?
• The mridangam continues to accompany the melody being played on the veena, playing rhythm patterns within the adi tala cycles that complement the rhythms of the melody.
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What will be an ideal response?
Which two chant traditions were the principal sources for what has come to be known as Gregorian chant?
A) Ambrosian and Mozarabic B) Coptic and Byzantine C) Old Roman and Gallican D) Ambrosian and Gallican
The epic novel that served as a basis for Kara Walker's work entitled Gone, An Historical Romance of Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of Young Negress and Her Heart was
a. Gone with the Wind b. The Guns of the South c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin d. If the South Had Won the Civil War e. none of the above
In this particular movement the composer drew on?
a) Handel's Messiah b) Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day c) Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline d) the composer's own Mass in C Minor