During the eleventh century, Byzantium gave special trade status to this city, which allowed it to control much of the commerce between the Eastern Empire and Western Europe

Shape-note singing, replaced pitch staff reading with?

a) tablature b) music in pictures c) sol-fa syllables d) geometric shapes

Because the plots of melodramas were utterly predictable, variety was achieved through: a. complete realism

b. dramatizing classic plays. c. All the available choices. d. exotic locales.