What is the general form of the selection? Describe some of the tonal subtleties you hear being played on the qin. (Answers may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
• Short introduction followed by three sections—which successively develop and extend the same material—and ended with a free-meter coda
• Harmonics - lightly stopping a string while plucking it; sliding from tone to tone; legato sound – multiple tones coming from one pluck; alternating between an open and stopped string, or between a soft and strong pluck, or between a clean attack of the tone and a slide into the tone; vibrato – a slight pulsating in the pitch of a tone, which is though to add richness to the tone; pitch-bending - pressing a stopped string to produce a rise in pitch
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a. woodwinds b. percussion c. brasses d. strings
__________ painted the Madonna Enthroned (Ognissanti Madonna) (fig. 18.1) c. 1310
A. Sandro Botticelli B. Masaccio C. Giotto D. Donatello E. Lorenzo Ghiberti
What is the bad news that Micah predicts?
What will be an ideal response?
Chopin's mazurkas and polonaises demonstrate the composer's nationalist sentiments towards which country?
a) Russia b) France c) Germany d) Poland