What are sizhu and how is the music related to them structured?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Sizhu are amateur silk-and-bamboo ensembles that play music in tea houses or
people's homes. The music is structured on a sequence of variations of a core tune, which is
elaborated heterophonically by the players.
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A. red-brick B. celadon C. stoneware D. porcelain
How does Haydn treat the main melody in the second movement of the String Quartet, op. 76, no. 3?
a) He changes its melodic contour with each repetition. b) He keeps it almost completely intact in each variation. c) He only states it once at the beginning of the exposition. d) He puts it against itself in counterpoint as a fugal theme.