In contrast to music from earlier periods, Baroque music fostered which of the following?
a) comparatively greater virtuosity
b) a retrenchment from virtuosity toward comparatively greater restraint
c) virtuosity compared to restraint did not change
d) comparatively greater virtuosity but only in the realm of instrumental music
a
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Which is the term for the late medieval form of song that often mixed voices singing different poetic texts?
a. duplum organum b. terza rima c. Minnesang d. motet
Edwin S. Porter's Life of an American Fireman (1903) is notable for:
A. its adaptation of a best-selling novel. B. its extensive use of intercutting and sophisticated stop-motion effects. C. the release of each of its shots as a separate film. D. the successive shots that show the same action from two vantage points.
Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths is an example of what style of theatre?
A) Realism B) Naturalism C) Expressionism D) Symbolism E) Surrealism
In The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger portrays Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve as ____, indicated by the objects on the table between them, which reflect their interest in culture, arts, mathematics, and astronomy
a. physicians b. scientists c. musicians d. humanists