What are dervishes, and what is the makeup of the ensemble that accompanies them?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Dervishes are twirling dancers of the Sufi religion, who dance in an effort to
achieve spiritual enlightenment. Nay flutes, daff drums, choral singers, and other instruments
accompany them.
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a. bassist b. drummer c. pianist d. saxophonist
Which liturgical book is a useful 20th-century anthology of different kinds of chants from both the Mass and Office?
a) Graduale b) Liber Usualis c) Missal d) Antiphonale
Caspar David Friedrich conceived landscape as a vehicle through which to achieve ______________
A. spiritual revelation B. power over nature C. communion with spirits D. fame in the academy
Which of the following was considered to be most rebellious?
A. Sophocles B. Euripides C. Aristophanes D. Aeschylus