Briefly describe the musical activities that accompanied the Zaffah wedding procession described in WOM
What will be an ideal response?
• the blaring of trumpets (nafir) and beating of frame drums (bendirs) as the couple is escorted into the reception hall and when everyone periodically walks around the hall
• a band sitting on a stage playing Egyptian and North American urban pop
• four Berber women singing and dancing in a style unique to the Atlas Mountains to the accompaniment of bendir and fiddle (rabab)
• a third musical configuration of men playing bendir and rabab and huge tambourines (mazhar) and long, straight, valve-less trumpets (nafir)
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Which formal element of The Three Living and The Three Dead pages from Psalter and Hours of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy directly relates to the process of contemplation?
a) the positioning of each set of figures regarding the other from facing pages b) the decorative floral work bordering each page c) the stylized first letter of each text passage d) the color combination of red and blue
Where do Mr. Lies and Harper go in their last scene in the play?
A. The Utah deserts B. The Caribbean C. Antarctica D. The Grand Canyon