Béla Bartók was strongly influenced by the music of Wagner and Richard Strauss.

In his painting Guernica, Pablo Picasso links the tragedy of Guernica to

a. Roman defeat of the Jews at Masada. b. Crucifixion of Jesus. c. the assassination of Pancho Villa. d. ritualized Spanish bullfighting.

Monteverdi believed that in passages with very expressive text,

a. the rules could be broken to make the music more intense. b. the compositional rules should never be compromised. c. there should be no rules, and the emotions of the individual performer should dictate everything. d. he had not succeeded unless the entire audience began weeping.