Which style of music was of little importance in the religious compositions of Baroque Rome?

Which of the following instruments is typically part of a musical layer in a Carnatic music ensemble?

A. a sruti layer played on a mridangam. B. a sruti layer played on a nagasvaram. C. a melodic layer played on a veena. D. a percussion layer played on a sruti-box or tambura.

Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 would certainly have been considered formalistic and banned by Soviet authorities, but due to the confusion of war-time society, it slipped past the censors. After the war, how did the pianist Sviatoslav Richter explain the composition as an example of realism?

What will be an ideal response?