Which of the following is NOT true of late-sixteenth-century Catholic Church music?
A. Clarity of words was sacrificed to musical sounds.
B. It became simpler in many ways.
C. The Council of Trent decreed that music should be easily understood by the illiterate masses.
D. Palestrina set the standard for the Catholic ideal for the next few centuries.
A
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a. violin, vielle, cello, viola da gamba. b. violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello. c. violin, lute, cello, string bass. d. violin, tenor viol, violone, viola.
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Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was intended as a heroic symbol commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. If it had been built, it would have been much smaller than the Eiffel Tower.
A. True B. False
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