What is the meter of the selection and how is it established? What significant changes do you hear in the time characteristics and how do these changes relate to the overall form of the selection?
What will be an ideal response?
• The meter is duple and established in the percussion part (from the "tick" of a woodblock and the "tock" from a clapper).
• The tempo (speed of the pulse) increases as each excerpt is played from "slowly," to "moderately" to "quickly." This creates a "suite" or cyclic form from slow expanded tunes to fast compressed versions of the same tune (This is a common technique in Chinese ensemble music.)
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Describe the process of creating a chord in octave structure.
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Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Bertold Brecht's alienation effect was designed so that theater audiences could
a. avoid being absorbed in the experience and miss the important political point of theater.
b. reject ideas of playwrights that might be bad for their character.
c. reject silly songs and zany behavior so that they could focus on the important work of theater.
d. become absorbed emotionally in the horrors of the play.
Proponents of the Enlightenment believed that knowledge is universal, truth absolute, and reason the pathway to Enlightenment.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)