American Popular Music Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
American Popular Music explores the evolution, significance, and cultural impact of popular music genres in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day. The course examines key styles such as jazz, blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, country, and pop, while considering the historical, social, and technological factors that shaped their development. Through listening, analysis, and discussion, students gain an understanding of influential artists, major trends, and the ways in which American popular music has reflected and influenced broader societal changes.
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Americas Musical Landscape 5th Edition by Jean Ferris
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Chapter 1: North American Indian Music
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Q1) Carlos Nakai is most associated with which of the following?
A) compositions for trumpet and orchestra
B) compositions for Native American flute
C) Native American rock tunes
D) Native American healing ceremonies
Answer: B
Q2) Vocables are meaningless syllables.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Traditional Native American music is usually associated with non-concert settings.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) There is no Native American word for the term "music."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Folk Music
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Q1) A field holler is typically sung by multiple voices.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which one of the following is not a kind of folk song?
A) chantey
B) lullaby
C) ballad
D) anthem
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following elements of music remains steady to facilitate work such as hammering?
A) melody
B) rhythm
C) form
D) harmony
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Religious Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods
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Q1) Psalm tunes were created for church settings but were also performed at social gatherings.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Protestant Reformation was initiated by
A) John Calvin
B) Martin Luther
C) Louis Bourgeois
D) William Penn
Answer: B
Q3) The Calvinists preferred a cappella singing of psalms in church because A) harmony was considered too sensuous for that setting
B) few congregations could afford organs
C) a cappella singing was much easier than accompanied singing
D) there were not enough song books to distribute among the people
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Secular Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods
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Q1) Which of the following genres is associated with texts of literary merit?
A) rondo
B) art song
C) ballad opera
D) sonata
Q2) Which of the following features recitative?
A) fife and drum corps
B) ballad opera
C) rondo
D) Alberti bass
Q3) Describe the utilitarian functions of military bands.How does this tradition continue into the high school and collegiate band experience in America today? How does this compare with the orchestral experience?
Q4) When an instrumental piece depicts a non-musical sound such as gunfire,the piece is said to be __________.
A) programmatic
B) imitative
C) march-like
D) Revolutionary
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Chapter 5: Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) "The Sacred Harp" was
A) an instrument used at Sunday services only
B) a book published in 1844
C) a shape-note training manual
D) a famous spiritual
Q2) African-American spirituals consisted only of sorrow songs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "They'll be Joy,Joy,Joy" features which of the following textures?
A) polyphonic
B) monophonic
C) homophonic
D) heterophonic
Q4) Some African-American spirituals eventually became regarded as art music.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Nineteenth century American social reform paralleled nineteenth century European Romanticism in terms of focus on the individual.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Popular Music of the Civil War Era
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Q1) Nineteenth century band music consisted only of marches.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Simple meter means that
A) each beat in a measure is divided by two
B) each beat in a measure is divided by three
C) each melodic section in the piece is divided in half
D) each major formal segment is divided in half
Q3) Which of the following topics is least associated with Stephen Foster songs?
A) parlor songs
B) sentimental songs
C) love songs
D) historical events
Q4) Since women were the primary benefactors of music lessons in nineteenth-century America,why are there so few recognized women composers from that era,especially considering that their teachers were highly educated European masters?
Q5) Minstrel shows originated in England.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Early Concert Music
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Q1) Describe the technical aspects of the piano that allowed it to be an ideal Romantic instrument.
Q2) Which of the following was not among Anthony Heinrich's musical accomplishments?
A) composer
B) singer
C) conductor
D) violinist
Q3) Which of the following musicians spent eleven years abroad studying music in France?
A) Ole Bull
B) Louis Moreau Gottschalk
C) Theodore Thomas
D) William Henry Fry
Q4) A conservatory is
A) a concert hall
B) a professional music school
C) an opera house
D) a choral society
Q5) Why did early attempts to promote a nationalistic American art music fail?
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Chapter 8: American Concert Music Comes of Age
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Q1) Which of the following was the older member and leader of the Second New England School of composers?
A) Horatio Parker
B) John Knowles Paine
C) Amy Cheney Beach
D) Edward MacDowell
Q2) Which of the following is <b>not</b> among the reasons the Second New England School of composers are sometimes called Boston Classicists?
A) intensely emotional expression
B) adherence to rules of theory
C) concern with formal structure
D) respect for quality and craftsmanship
Q3) Fugue subjects and answers alternate between tonic and dominant tonalities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) MacDowell was an accomplished
A) violinist
B) pianist
C) singer
D) conductor
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Chapter 9: The Rise of Popular Culture
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Q1) Which of the following musical trends was largely led by American Jews?
A) ragtime
B) Tin Pan Alley
C) gospel
D) barbershop
Q2) Eubie Blake was a famous
A) ragtime pianist
B) composer of marches
C) composer of Civil War songs
D) song plugger
Q3) The form of a rag is similar to that of a
A) fugue
B) song
C) theme and variations
D) march
Q4) "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" demonstrates which of the following?
A) the Tin Pan Alley tendency to focus on the chorus rather than the verses
B) a march-like, duple meter
C) early ragtime influences of its day
D) the genius of Cole Porter's lyrics
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Chapter 10: Country Music
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Q1) Gene Autry and Tex Ritter represent which trend in country music?
A) the lonely trainman
B) the singing cowboy
C) the reflective prisoner
D) the virtuosic fiddler
Q2) Who is often considered country music's first protest singer?
A) June Carter
B) Johnny Cash
C) Chet Atkins
D) Hank Williams
Q3) Which style of country music began as a response to rock and roll?
A) bluegrass
B) the Nashville sound
C) honky-tonk
D) western swing
Q4) Bluegrass was created by
A) Flatt and Scruggs
B) Bill Monroe
C) Roy Acuff
D) Alison Krauss
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Chapter 11: Ethnic Traditions and the Urban Folk Revival
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Q1) Zydeco is a blend of British and French traditions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) "Tom Dooley" exemplified
A) emerging ties between folk and country music
B) urban folk music's focus on themes of murder
C) the zydeco influence
D) Cajun overtones
Q3) The Weavers,founded by Pete Seeger,were dedicated to
A) preservation of folk sheet music
B) preserving the political-activist folk music tradition
C) preserving standard folk music harmony
D) preserving folk music instrumentation
Q4) Some country songwriters are considered folk poets.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Woody Guthrie's music was anti-trade union.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the ties between folk music performers and folk music preservationists.
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Chapter 12: The Jazz Age
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Q1) The roots of rural blues are found in the field holler.
A)True
B)False
Q2) "Stride" and "boogie-woogie" are terms that are both related to A) melodic embellishments
B) jazz piano
C) New Orleans jazz
D) sweet jazz
Q3) How did the vocally-based blues become a primary foundation for instrumentally-based jazz?
Q4) Classic blues singers were primarily men.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following makes "sweet jazz" significantly different from jazz as a whole?
A) lack of improvisation
B) syncopated rhythms
C) use of twelve-bar blues
D) combo instrumentation
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Chapter 13: Jazz 1930-1960
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Q1) A steadily-moving accompaniment pattern in the string bass is called
A) walking bass
B) eight-to-a-bar
C) cadenza
D) ostinato
Q2) Hard bop developed as a reaction to cool style.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Kansas City jazz featured repeated musical phrases called A) riffs
B) the walking bass
C) jams
D) charts
Q4) Which of the following jazz legends was not African-American?
A) Count Basie
B) Benny Goodman
C) Duke Ellington
D) Fletcher Henderson
Q5) Arrange the following four styles chronologically,and point out any stylistic trends that you notice: bebop,big band,cool,hard bop.
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Chapter 14: Jazz Since 1960
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Q1) In which way is fusion <b>least</b> like rock?
A) use of synthesizers
B) rarely focuses on vocals
C) drum drives beat rather than bass
D) uses electronic instruments
Q2) Which of the following combines rock rhythms with collective improvisation,extreme ranges in volume,and rapid shifts in tempo and mood?
A) bebop
B) third stream
C) fusion
D) cool
Q3) Which of the following introduced the free jazz style in his album Free Jazz?
A) Miles Davis
B) Ornette Coleman
C) John Coltrane
D)D.Wynton Marsalis
Q4) Despite many stylistic changes through the years,jazz is always tonal music.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Latin Popular Musics
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Q1) The Tejano style reflects a blending of traditions from Mexico and Louisiana.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following Latin areas is <b>least</b> influential in North American popular music today?
A) the Caribbean
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Mexico
Q3) An accordion dominates the sound of which of the following?
A) mariachi
B) conjunto
C) salsa
D) Cu-bop
Q4) The tango came from
A) Cuba
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Mexico
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Chapter 16: Rock and Roll
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Q1) "Soul" can be considered a "back to black" rock trend.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following genres is named after the drug LSD,and attempts to create non-musical sensations?
A) funk
B) acid rock
C) psychedelic blues
D) heavy metal
Q3) Early rock and roll bands resembled jazz more than country in terms of their inclusion of
A) guitars
B) the saxophone
C) a steady beat
D) a solo singer
Q4) Rhythm and blues bands were almost always acoustic.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which elements of black gospel music directly found their way into rhythm and blues?
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Chapter 17: Popular Music Since 1970
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Q1) Which of the following was<b> least</b> influential on the development of rap?
A) urban street jive
B) Afro-Caribbean techniques
C) Motown
D) black radio DJs
Q2) Which of the following genres chronologically followed punk,adopted some of punk's stage movements,but was less political?
A) new wave
B) grunge
C) disco
D) techno
Q3) Which of the following was a movie that helped stimulate the success of disco?
A) Saturday Night Fever
B) The New York Dolls
C) Philadelphia
D) Thriller
Q4) Make a list of several rock genres discussed in the last two chapters,dividing them into politically motivated versus "pure entertainment" categories.
Possible
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Chapter 18: Music for Theatre and Film
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Q1) A musical variety show with a common theme is called a
A) revue
B) operetta
C) musical
D) chamber musical
Q2) Which one of the following composers wrote A Little Night Music and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum?
A) Stephen Sondheim
B) Leonard Bernstein
C) Richard Rodgers
D) George Gershwin
Q3) Give My Regards to Broadway and Yankee Doodle Boy were written by
A) Leonard Bernstein
B) Jerome Kern
C) Will Marion Cook
D) George M. Cohan
Q4) Broadway has widely embraced jazz in its musical scores.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Music for Films
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Q1) A sound track includes dialogue and sound effects as well as film music.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1930s,most of the composers working on film scores were American.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The "theremin" was an early recording device in the movie industry.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Newman,Steiner and Korngold are best remembered for
A) lush orchestral scoring
B) creating instrumental suites
C) writing dramatic fanfares
D) incorporating synthesizers into their scores
Q5) Pop music scores became popular in which decade?
A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s
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Chapter 20: American Opera
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Q1) Gertrude Stein was an influential music educator who lived in France.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Recitative is usually unaccompanied to facilitate clear text recitation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The orchestra sometimes assumes a psychological role in opera,making references to ideas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The story of Porgy and Bess is based upon a A) novel
B) poem
C) ballet
D) song
Q5) Einstein on the Beach is an opera without a plot.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is the dramatic role of each of the following opera components? aria,recitative,overture,chorus
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Chapter 21: Experimental Music - Revolution
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Q1) Most of Ives' music was written in the _________ century.
A) late nineteenth
B) early twentieth
C) mid-twentieth
D) recent twentieth
Q2) The experimentalist who shared many ideas with the transcendentalists was
A) Henry Cowell
B) Edgar Varese
C) Charles Ives
D) John Cage
Q3) Musical quotations are an inherent part of the compositions of
A) Henry Cowell
B) Edgar Varese
C) Charles Ives
D) John Cage
Q4) Combining two or more rhythmic patterns creates polyphony.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Did American composers continue to turn to Europe for inspiration in the mid-twentieth century? Provide evidence to support your claim.
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Chapter 22: Mainstream Concert Music - Evolution
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Q1) William Grant Still identified most closely with the experience of the
A) African-American
B) European immigrant
C) Native American
D) Latin American
Q2) William Grant Still is America's only black composer of symphonies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Copland's Rodeo and Appalachian Spring both represent which genre?
A) opera
B) modern dance
C) radio music
D) film
Q4) "Second New England School" composers were still teaching in the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Aaron Copland wrote scores for film and radio as well as orchestral literature.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: The Avant-Garde Continued
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Q1) Abstract expressionist painters share many ideals with the composers of ______ music.
A) concrete
B) 12-tone
C) aleatoric
D) program
Q2) The composer who invented several instruments in order to produce original timbres was
A) Charles Ives
B) Harry Partch
C) Milton Babbitt
D) John Cage
Q3) Twentieth century music scores sometimes focused on visual appeal as well as musical guidance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A Chinese book called I Ching has been used by composers to create musical works.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The Recent Mainstream
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Q1) William Schuman primarily writes for orchestra.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The symphony orchestra has undergone major instrumentation changes in the last thirty years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which is true regarding Terry Riley's In C?
A) The concept of the piece is related to aleatory practices.
B) The performers must strictly adhere to specified time indicators.
C) The instrumentation must remain the same for each performance.
D) The pulse is kept by two drummers.
Q4) A song cycle is
A) a ballad-inspired genre that has multiple verses
B) a set of songs always accompanied by orchestra
C) a set of songs that are connected by theme
D) a set of songs that are in the same key
Q5) Lou Harrison attempted to mimic the complexity of Ives' music in his own works.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 25: Prelude
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Q1) Which of the following melodic systems was most favored by Western composers over time?
A) major/minor scales
B) pentatonic scale
C) modes
D) whole tone scale
Q2) Which of the following elements of music consists of a meaningful succession of tones?
A) form
B) harmony
C) timbre
D) melody
Q3) The "home tone" of a piece,which is also the name of the key of a composition,is called the
A) subdominant
B) tonic
C) dominant
D) unison
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Chapter 26: Music in Early America
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Q1) Some scholars differentiate between music and noise by examining which of the following?
A) patterns of sound
B) pitches
C) volume
D) written notation
Q2) Which statement is<b> incorrect</b> regarding many of the Puritans of early New England?
A) They were very intellectual people.
B) They did not favor high art in their churches.
C) They enjoyed poetry, art, and music.
D) They protested against Roman Catholic music practices.
Q3) Which of the following is true regarding African slaves in eighteenth century America?
A) African music was sometimes expressed via Christian worship.
B) African musicians were not taken into slavery.
C) Slaves were able to preserve traditional music via written notation.
D) Slaves lost all trace of their traditional musics.
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Chapter 27: The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Which of the following is <b>not</b> true regarding nineteenth century American music?
A) there was an increased fusion of other arts with music
B) musicians were increasingly dependent on approval of the public
C) musicians relied on each other for practical and moral support
D) music was rarely connected to art forms such as poetry
Q2) Which of the following is not usually associated with Romanticism?
A) fascination with the unknown
B) balance and reason
C) love of nature
D) fierce independence
Q3) Romanticism dates from which of the following periods?
A) 1750-1800
B) 1800-1850
C) 1825-1900
D) 1900-1950
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Chapter 28: The Growth of Vernacular Traditions
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Q1) Which type of musical genre is frequently associated with the term "vernacular?"
A) classical
B) art music
C) popular music
D) Baroque
Q2) Which statement is <b>not</b> true regarding vernacular music in America?
A) Vernacular music was popular in early American music.
B) Vernacular music composition required extensive musical training.
C) Vernacular music was associated with minstrel shows and circuses.
D) Vernacular music was sporadically preserved.
Q3) Which of the following is <b>least</b> associated with the vernacular?
A) collage
B) comic books
C) swing music
D) impressionism
Q4) American vernacular music reflects which of the following?
A) regional influences
B) sophisticated compositional rules
C) highly recognized composers
D) European compositional style
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Chapter 29: A Diversity of Popular Musics
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Q1) Which of the following was a visual pop artist?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Andy Warhol
C) James Dean
D) Chuck Berry
Q2) American vernacular music of the 1990s was probably most influenced by
A) art and literature
B) technological advances and computerization
C) European trends
D) 1950s rock
Q3) American vernacular music especially diversified after the birth of
A) jazz
B) rock
C) country
D) new wave
Q4) Which can be said about the "beat generation?"
A) they detested vernacular music
B) they promoted only visual art
C) they were champions of nonconformity
D) they ignored American culture
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Chapter 30: Music for Theater and Film
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Q1) Broadway has recently revived many older musicals for which of the following reasons?
A) aesthetic
B) financial
C) lack of imagination
D) no available story lines
Q2) Early American musical theatre was imported from
A) Greece
B) England
C) Germany
D) Italy
Q3) The inclusion of provocative dance scenes in musicals reflected which of the following trends in American culture?
A) the waning of the severe Protestant ethic
B) the growth of diversity in America
C) the legalization of alcohol sales
D) the grounding in European traditions
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Chapter 31: Tradition and Innovation in Concert Music
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B) timbre
C) hypertext
D) artistic interaction
Q2) Which of the following is a musical trend that could not have occurred prior to the Twentieth Century?
A) fusion of literature and music
B) use of chance in performance
C) manipulation of recorded sound
D) written preservation of music
Q3) Some scholars connect pointillist visual art with musical manipulation of A) rhythm
B) form
C) timbre
D) meter
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