In late eighteenth-century Vienna, when composers wanted to write music in a Turkish style, they generally wrote:

A) rhythmically free melodies that imitated the Islamic singing style.
B) percussive marches played by a distinctive ensemble of trumpets and oboes.
C) percussive marches with bass drum, cymbal, and triangle.
D) all of these choices

C

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