What is the relationship between "Gesamtkunstwerk" and Wagner's idea of the "music of the future"?

What will be an ideal response?

music of the future was the application of Gesamtkunstwerk, which he thought was the shape of things to come

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Which composition is the first true opera in Western music?

a. Dido and Aeneas b. Carmen c. Orfeo d. Voglio morire e. Romeo and Juliet

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What is the "Doctrine of the Affections"? a. A music theory treatise that set forth all that a practicing church musicianneeded to know in order to sing the liturgy

b. The name given to the conservative music emanating from the papal chapelin the seventeenth century. c. A theory holding that different musical moods could and should be used toinfluence the emotions of the listener. d. A catch phrase used to condemn art that was considered decadent onaccount of its association with foreign influences.

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