Introduction to Music
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Introduction to Music offers an engaging exploration of music as an art form, focusing on its historical development, fundamental concepts, and diverse global traditions. Students learn to identify basic elements such as rhythm, melody, harmony, and form, while gaining familiarity with key composers, genres, and instruments from both Western and non-Western cultures. Through listening exercises, discussion, and hands-on activities, the course fosters critical appreciation and understanding of musics role in society, personal expression, and cultural identity. No prior musical experience is required, making this an accessible entry point for anyone interested in the world of music.
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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) Yeibichai Songs are associated with which of the following tribes?
A) Sioux
B) Navajo
C) Zuni
D) Apache
Answer: B
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following is rarely found in traditional Native American music?
A) singing in harmony
B) patterns of repetition
C) use of percussion instruments
D) unison singing
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Folk Music
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Q1) Call and response is used in numerous types of African-American music.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Disasters,famous murders and other historical events are subjects frequently found in
A) broadsides
B) field hollers
C) work songs
D) spirituals
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following is true about field hollers?
A) They were composed and set to written notation.
B) They were improvised.
C) They were performed in unison by large groups of singers.
D) They were usually accompanied by the banjo.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Religious Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods
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Q1) Which form is utilized in "Chester?"
A) through-composed
B) strophic
C) fuging tune
D) canonic
Answer: B
Q2) Hymn texts are taken directly from the Bible.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The form of a fuging tune may be described as
A) AAB
B) ABC
C) ABA
D) ABB
Answer: D
Q4) Psalm tune texts are paraphrased from the Bible.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Secular Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods
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Q1) Concert music by contemporary European composers such as Mozart and Haydn was widely appreciated by most American audiences in the 1700s.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the attention given to unity and variety in art music as opposed to design principles in folk and popular music.
Q3) Which of the following is not true regarding the sonata?
A) written for voices
B) based on principles of unity and contrast
C) multi-movements
D) lengthier than most songs
Q4) Why did European musicians during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods dominate the American music scene in terms of composing and teaching?
Q5) A "fife" is a small percussion instrument.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Music societies were normally located in rural areas.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Some African-American spirituals eventually became regarded as art music.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Reflecting on your own pre-collegiate music education,do you think that Lowell Mason would have been pleased with the outcome of that education? Outline his goals,and compare this with your own experience.
Q3) Which of the following is not true regarding shape-notes?
A) they were designed to help non-music readers learn to read music
B) they consisted of four different geometric shapes
C) they did not require use of a staff
D) they were based on the syllables fa, sol, la, and mi
Q4) Which of the following would most likely be sung in call and response fashion?
A) lullaby
B) patriotic song
C) spiritual
D) ballad
Q5) Considering American music today,what was the musical impact of the conversion of many African slaves to Christianity?
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Chapter 6: Popular Music of the Civil War Era
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Q1) Brass instruments were first fitted with valves,making them easier to play,in the early ________ century.
A) seventeenth
B) eighteenth
C) nineteenth
D) twentieth
Q2) Nineteenth century band music consisted only of marches.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Patriotic songs were frequently performed in theatrical events in the nineteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following best describes a "walk-around?"
A) a plantation song and dance routine performed in a minstrel show
B) a march performed by the Marine Band at presidential events
C) a wildly popular folk song of the nineteenth century
D) a song sung in black dialect by white performers
Q5) How did nineteenth century immigration impact music in America both immediately and long-term?
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Chapter 7: Early Concert Music
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Q1) Art music is usually associated with attracting a somewhat select audience.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1850s,the piano was not affordable for middle-class Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following was not part of Gottschalk's racial and cultural heritage?
A) English
B) French
C) Jewish
D) American Indian
Q4) Music in which the notes are sustained and connected is considered
A) ostinato
B) arpeggiated
C) virtuosic
D) legato
Q5) Why did early attempts to promote a nationalistic American art music fail?
Q6) Describe the technical aspects of the piano that allowed it to be an ideal Romantic instrument.
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Chapter 8: American Concert Music Comes of Age
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Q1) Which of the following terms does <b>not </b>refer to an entire work?
A) suite
B) fugue
C) sequence
D) symphony
Q2) It is likely that Amy Beach favored the art song genre because
A) she found symphonic composition very difficult
B) this genre was considered more fitting for a woman of her day
C) she had to give up her solo career
D) she was a solo vocalist as well as a composer
Q3) The term "timbre" is related to variations in sound color.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The predominant texture of a fugue is
A) monophonic
B) polyphonic
C) heterophonic
D) homophonic
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Chapter 9: The Rise of Popular Culture
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Q1) Tin Pan Alley refers to which industry?
A) concert management
B) musical instrument
C) popular music
D) art music
Q2) The story of a typical Tin Pan Alley song was told in the
A) chorus
B) strain
C) verses
D) trio
Q3) Which of the following is <b>not</b> connected to the decline of Tin Pan Alley?
A) Popular music tastes change over time, and Tin Pan Alley did not significantly change.
B) World War II made sentimental songs seem less significant.
C) An ASCAP strike limited air time for Tin Pan Alley hits.
D) The Hollywood movie industry wanted to work independently from Tin Pan Alley.
Q4) Ragtime performance is primarily associated with African-Americans.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Country Music
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Q1) Country music rarely adopted regional trends.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) Country and western is an accurate alternative term for country music.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Jimmie Rodgers often accompanied himself on the
A) mandolin
B) piano
C) guitar
D) dulcimer
Q5) The yodel was created by the Carter family.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Ethnic Traditions and the Urban Folk Revival
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Q1) Groups such as the Weavers were forced to perform at venues such as college campuses because
A) they did not appeal to an older audience
B) they were free to express their political views there
C) they were not allowed in union halls
D) they were blacklisted from television
Q2) One of zydeco's influences on country music is the use of the accordion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is <b>least</b> easy to define?
A) urban folk music
B) alternative country
C) Zydeco
D) Cajun
Q4) Country lyrics are usually not about protest,but focus instead on
A) social commentary
B) historical events
C) political activism
D) ethnic diversity
Q5) 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) Unrequited love is a typical blues topic.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Blues harmony is distinctive because
A) it is limited to the use of three chords
B) it is performed by a complex interlocking of instruments
C) it utilizes unusual chord patterns
D) it is improvised
Q4) Classic blues singers were primarily men.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Urban blues had a strong association with jazz.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Despite its roots in folk and popular music styles,jazz has rarely been associated with popular music? Why do you think this is true?
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Chapter 13: Jazz 1930-1960
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Q1) Hard bop developed as a reaction to cool style.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following jazz legends was not African-American?
A) Count Basie
B) Benny Goodman
C) Duke Ellington
D) Fletcher Henderson
Q3) Which composer-arranger first introduced Latin American rhythms into jazz?
A) Dave Brubeck
B) Fletcher Henderson
C) Stan Kenton
D) Miles Davis
Q4) Count Basie was a big band leader as well as an arranger.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Jazz was the first music in the Western music tradition to require improvisation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Jazz Since 1960
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Q1) Collective improvisation relies on
A) highly detailed written scores
B) few individual solos
C) musical interplay between ensemble members
D) a steady beat to hold the ensemble together
Q2) Jazz and rock both come from the same roots.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which jazz style has no familiar chord changes,no references to popular songs,and no steady beat?
A) free jazz
B) bebop
C) cool jazz
D) third stream
Q4) Which best describes jazz collectives?
A) They are organizations created to support jazz musicians.
B) They are collections of classic jazz sheet music.
C) They are groups of jazz musicians who dislike fusion.
D) They are archives of classic jazz recordings.
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Chapter 15: Latin Popular Musics
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Q1) The politically-charged,sometimes risqué style that was originally sung in French-Creole dialect is the
A) salsa
B) calypso
C) mambo
D) bossa nova
Q2) Reggae is a genre that fuses together many elements,both musical and non-musical.Describe both the blending of musical traditions and the multiple functions of this music.
Q3) The tango came from
A) Cuba
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Mexico
Q4) The habanera is a dance from
A) Cuba
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Mexico
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Chapter 16: Rock and Roll
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Q1) Which of the following was not an important soul singer?
A) Jimi Hendrix
B) Ray Charles
C) James Brown
D) Aretha Franklin
Q2) Gospel frequently combines religious expression with secular-associated techniques.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Rock is a more carefree style than rock and roll.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Beatles' early songs were
A) politically charged
B) violent and rebellious
C) lighthearted and innocent
D) inspired by non-Western musics
Q5) Gospel refers to a family including both white and black musics.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Popular Music Since 1970
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Q1) Which of the following genres viewed performance as art,and had many art students among its proponents?
A) grunge
B) punk
C) disco
D) house
Q2) Grunge is also referred to as the _________ sound.
A) San Francisco
B) Chicago
C) Seattle
D) New York
Q3) A notation system for scratching would not be technically possible.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is<b> not</b> a term associated with electronic dance music?
A) house
B) techno
C) punk
D) electro
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Chapter 18: Music for Theatre and Film
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Q1) Show Boat and Oklahoma both moved the Broadway musical in new directions.Describe several innovations that each show inspired in future Broadway musicals.
Q2) "Saturday Night Live" follows in which of the following traditions?
A) vaudeville
B) burlesque
C) revue
D) follies
Q3) Which of the following marked the end of the long-running Ziegfeld Follies?
A) World War I
B) the Great Depression
C) World War II
D) the Civil War
Q4) The 1942 movie Yankee Doodle Dandy is about the life of
A) George M. Cohan
B) Leonard Bernstein
C) George Gershwin
D) Richard Rodgers
Q5) 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) The classical Hollywood film score usually featured
A) lavish sounds of orchestral instruments
B) the tinkling sounds of old pianos
C) numerous keyboard instruments
D) synthesized music
Q2) In the 1930s,most of the composers working on film scores were American.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many people take film music for granted,losing themselves in the story as the movie unfolds.What are some of the roles of film music that the audience members subconsciously experience?
Q4) With an historical perspective in mind,describe the connection between film music and commercial sale of music in America.
Q5) The sounds of new age music usually are produced by
A) synthesizers or acoustic folk instruments
B) electric guitars
C) a symphony orchestra
D) the theremin
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Chapter 20: American Opera
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Q1) Opera began to significantly develop in America just after World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The story of Porgy and Bess is based upon a
A) novel
B) poem
C) ballet
D) song
Q3) Which of the following is <b>not</b> true regarding the role of the orchestra in opera?
A) carries equal weight with the singer in an aria
B) sets the mood or tone of scenes
C) makes musical references to characters
D) reveals unsung thoughts in the mind of characters
Q4) Trios,quartets and choruses are various kinds of vocal
A) libretti
B) verismi
C) finales
D) ensembles
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Chapter 21: Experimental Music - Revolution
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Q1) John Cage extensively used the gamelan in his compositions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The instrument on which Henry Cowell performed most of his experiments was the A) trumpet
B) piano
C) synthesizer
D) gamelan
Q3) Which of the following requires that the performer capture a live sound before it is electronically manipulated?
A) concrete music
B) 12-tone music
C) prepared piano
D) New Music
Q4) Most of Ives' music was written in the _________ century.
A) late nineteenth
B) early twentieth
C) mid-twentieth
D) recent twentieth
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Chapter 22: Mainstream Concert Music - Evolution
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Q1) Copland's Rodeo and Appalachian Spring both represent which genre?
A) opera
B) modern dance
C) radio music
D) film
Q2) Samuel Barber's lyrical melodies exemplify which twentieth-century art music trends?
A) neoromanticism
B) classicism
C) Harlem Renaissance
D) experimental music
Q3) In the 1920s,young American composers traveled to _________ to study music.
A) Germany
B) England
C) France
D) Italy
Q4) Samuel Barber's attraction to singing and song is evident in his instrumental works.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: The Avant-Garde Continued
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Q1) Twentieth century music scores sometimes focused on visual appeal as well as musical guidance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Whose compositional technique is mostly strongly aligned with mathematical principles?
A) Harry Partch
B) Pauline Oliveros
C) John Cage
D) Milton Babbitt
Q3) Which of the following composers prefers to write music that exists only on tape rather than on a score?
A) Harry Partch
B) Milton Babbitt
C) John Cage
D) Aaron Copland
Q4) Jazz improvisation can be considered a form of indeterminate music.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The Recent Mainstream
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Q1) Name five American women composers who have enjoyed success in the late twentieth century.What cultural changes have allowed women to succeed in what had been a male role?
Q2) Minimalism is a visual art movement as well as a musical genre.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which is<b> not</b> true regarding William Schuman's New England Triptych?
A) It is based on works by William Billings.
B) It is indicative of Schuman's nationalistic tendencies.
C) It is a choral work.
D) It includes the tune "Chester".
Q4) William Schuman primarily writes for orchestra.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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
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Chapter 25: Prelude
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Q1) The texture that features simultaneous melodic lines is called
A) monophonic
B) heterophonic
C) homophonic
D) polyphonic
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following is most related to the number of pulses or beats per measure?
A) bars
B) meter
C) rhythm
D) harmony
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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 would be an incorrect generalization regarding Native American traditional music?
A) It is strongly connected to spirituality.
B) It sounded the same from culture to culture.
C) It was interrelated to other art forms.
D) It was sometimes depicted in visual art.
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Chapter 27: The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century
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Q1) "Yankee" musicians tended to emulate which of the following countries most?
A) France
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) England
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
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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) American vernacular music reflects which of the following?
A) regional influences
B) sophisticated compositional rules
C) highly recognized composers
D) European compositional style
Q3) Which of the following is <b>least</b> associated with the vernacular?
A) collage
B) comic books
C) swing music
D) impressionism
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 29: A Diversity of Popular Musics
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Q1) American vernacular music especially diversified after the birth of
A) jazz
B) rock
C) country
D) new wave
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) 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
Q4) Which of the following was a visual pop artist?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Andy Warhol
C) James Dean
D) Chuck Berry
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Chapter 30: Music for Theater and Film
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Q1) The connection between music and theatre dates back to A) Nineteenth century Italy
B) ancient Greece
C) Sixteenth century Germany
D) Eighteenth century America
Q2) Early American musical theatre was imported from
A) Greece
B) England
C) Germany
D) Italy
Q3) 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
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Chapter 31: Tradition and Innovation in Concert Music
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of the following is<b> not</b> frequently found in current American concert music?
A) inclusion of non-Western music
B) a unified musical language
C) interaction of the arts
D) multimedia performances
Q3) Some scholars connect pointillist visual art with musical manipulation of A) rhythm
B) form
C) timbre
D) meter
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