The term “mainstream,” when applied to twentieth?century music, refers to music that
a. sounds a lot like nineteenth?century music
b. is neither experimental nor committed to any particular approach to composing
c. was composed around the middle of the century
d. has been catalogued by the Library of Congress
e. has been recorded
ANS: b.
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