Leonard Bernstein was successful at popularizing not only classical music, but also at classicizing popular music

Palestrina's music sounds pure and serene because

a. all the voices sing the words simultaneously. b. it is monophonic. c. he only used soft dynamic levels. d. the structure of individual melodic lines and dissonances are both carefully controlled.

The provocative German thinker ________, who detected in European materialism a deepening decadence, called for a revision of traditional values.

A. Hegel B. Nietzsche C. Einstein D. Debussy