As a British colony, what important changes took place in India, including music?

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• The English colonists brought railways, communications, bureaucracy, universities, and European musical instruments (e.g., violin, clarinet, and harmonium [a small reed organ]). While Indians adapted these European musical instruments to their musical styles, they did not adopt European musical styles.

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a. naturalism b. Classicism c. abstraction d. minimalism

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When Brahms was 20 years old, which of the following individuals proclaimed him the new messiah of music?

a) Richard Wagner b) Richard Strauss c) Robert Schumann d) Johann Strauss, Jr.

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