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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Charles Mingus was an important jazz composer and

a. bassist b. drummer c. pianist d. saxophonist

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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

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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

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Which of the following was considered to be most rebellious?

A. Sophocles B. Euripides C. Aristophanes D. Aeschylus

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