This Italian composer studied with Orlande de Lassus in Munich before beginning a career in his native Venice. He was the first composer in the history of music to include dynamic markings in the score

A Buddhist stupa, like the Great Stupa at Sanchi, acts to:

a. be the symbol of nirvana. b. commemorate a sacred place. c. be a monumental burial mound. d. be the center of a Buddhist religious compound. e. all of these.

Which were the only two countries to develop a native variety of the madrigal?

What will be an ideal response?