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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Which family of instruments is playing the melody in this excerpt?

a. woodwinds b. percussion c. brasses d. strings

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__________ painted the Madonna Enthroned (Ognissanti Madonna) (fig. 18.1) c. 1310

A. Sandro Botticelli B. Masaccio C. Giotto D. Donatello E. Lorenzo Ghiberti

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Chopin's mazurkas and polonaises demonstrate the composer's nationalist sentiments towards which country?

a) Russia b) France c) Germany d) Poland

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What is the bad news that Micah predicts?

What will be an ideal response?

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