Identify the statement about The Rite of Spring that is erroneous.
a. It does not attempt to tell a connected story through mime, dance, andmusic. b. The harmonic and tonal organization makes no consistent reference to key,and constantly shifts among passages that are diatonic, octatonic, andwhole tone
c. The audience was so excited by the premiere that they carried Stravinsky tohis hotel on their shoulders and he had to make several appearances on thehotel balcony to acknowledge their ovations.
d. The composer, choreographer, and the painter Nicholas Roerich sought torecreate a pagan ritual.
c
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a. Difficult to set up b. Expensive to get into operation c. Subject to double taxation d. Margin calls
McCoy Tyner's unique manner of chord voicing was based on
a. stacked thirds and octave drones b. stacked fourths and open fifth drones c. stacked fifths and tone clusters d. stacked thirds and open fourth drones
English female playwrights of the 1690s were known informally as
A. the "female wits." B. women of bourgeois comedy. C. the "women of manners." D. the "women with wits."
Thick, Renaissance polyphony produced a problem, namely
A. the obscuring of the text. B. bad vocal control. C. too much music. D. a lack of instrumentation.