What is a leitmotive?
a. The use of striking chord shifts, musical repetition, controlled dissonance,and abrupt textural changes to highlight the meaning of the text
b. A musical motive that symbolizes a character of dramatic entity.
c. An operatic passage largely given in recitative and often leading to an aria orduet.
d. A group of musicians that supported the outlook of Wagner and Liszt.
b
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a) tumulus. b) bucchero. c) insula. d) cella.
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A compositional technique where the composer states a musical theme and then restates this theme over and over, elaborating on or varying the theme each time is called theme and variations.
a. true b. false
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