Analyze how primitivist composers such as Igor Stravinsky embedded "Primitive" elements in ultramodern settings
What will be an ideal response?
Rite of Spring - Stravinsky synthesized the ancient and the avant-garde
embedded the "primitive elements" in ultra modern settings
dissonant harmonies,
irregular patterns and rhythms
melodies without cadences,
densely layered textures
instrumentation that exploited new orchestral timbres (such as bassoon in high range at introduction)
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Thomas Dartmouth Rice is credited with
a. developing the earliest form of blackface. b. creating the character known as Jim Crow. c. bringing an urban flavor into minstrelsy. d. writing "Turkey in the Straw.".