How does music and culture of the Arab world go beyond the borders of these countries?
What will be an ideal response?
• "[T]he people of the Arab world have been ‘on the move' both historically and in the present time. So, the music and the culture of the Arab world spreads out in a diaspora: Rather than being confined to a single geographic location, its people and their traditions are dispersed beyond the boundaries of the region.
• What are some of the aims of this chapter?
• Understand "the routes of [Arab] musical traditions [and]. . . the roots of some of the oldest ideas, philosophies, and theories about [Arab] music [and appreciate] the historical and literary legacy of Arab music-culture . . ."
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A tightly structured group of individual songs that tell a story or treat a single
theme is known as a:
a. Schubertiad b. Lied c. ballad d. song cycle e. tone poem
Under the direction of Felix Mendelssohn, the Gewandhaus Orchestra
A) dwindled away and fell into bankruptcy B) revived songs from past eras, but the public hated this and called it old fashioned C) moved to France D) became one of the finest orchestras in Europe. E) became an ensemble of strings only
Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid exemplifies the Mannerist style of painting because it depicts __________.
A. figures with exaggerated poses B. figures set in rationally ordered space C. a traditional mythological scene D. naturalistic and Classicizing female nudes