What did the Scivias record about Hildegard of Bingen?
A) her day-to-day events
B) her musical compositions
C) her mystical visions
D) her treatises on medicine
Ans: C) her mystical visions
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For a thousand years the standard textbook on music theory was a work entitled Fundamentals of Music. Which statement does not apply to this influential tome?
A) The heart of the book is a six-chapter study of rhythm in music and poetry. B) It served as the conduit through which Greek music theory was passed on to medieval Europe. C) The text describes three distinct types of music: the music of the spheres, music of the human body, and earthly vocal and instrumental music. D) The author of the text was the aristocratic Roman, Manlius Severinus Boethius.
Southern Song painting applied the concept of "sudden enlightenment" from which of the following philosophies?
a. Chan Buddhism b. Neo-Confucianism c. Daoism d. Shintoism
A 1959 French law created the avance sur recettes ("advance on receipts") system, which:
A. established government subsidies for documentary and short filmmaking. B. financed first features on the basis of a script. C. reestablished a quota system to prop up the French film production. D. eased censorship for films in order to compete with television.
The inscription on the Arch of Titus states that the arch was constructed to honor
A) ?the deified Vespasian. B) ?the deified Titus. C) ?Titus's younger brother, Domitian. D) ?Titus's son and intended successor.