What is the general name for the music played by Chennai’s street vendors? Give an example of this kind of music. (Examples may vary.)

What will be an ideal response?


• Folk music, for example, the distinctive musical calls or chanted sacred songs by traveling vendors selling wares or services and who are trying to gain the attention of prospective buyers.

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A famous collection of German folk poems, edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, is known as ____. Mahler was the first major composer to set a significant number of texts from this collection of around seven hundred poems

A) Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen B) Kindertotenlieder C) Des knaben Wunderhorn D) Carmina burana

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__________ occurred during the Enlightenment

A. Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity B. Leeuwenhoek's development of the microscope C. Galileo's invention of the telescope D. Kepler's description of the functioning of the eye E. all of the above

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The first secular songs published in America were usually associated with:

A. the emerging concert scene. B. theatre. C. political campaigns. D. the military.

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Which of the following is likely an example of a site-specific theatre space?

A. a courtyard B. an arena C. an amphitheatre D. an auditorium

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