For Reading 16.1, Marguerite de Navarre’s Story 55 from the Heptameron: How might the reader understand, even justify in humanist terms, the Spanish wife’s actions?
What will be an ideal response?
Just as the narrator in the story does, the reader can justify the Spanish wife’s actions because the gift to the Church would not have secured her husband’s salvation. Further, instead of giving the money away to the Church, she saved the money for herself and for her children.
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Neoclassicism was __________
a) an attempt to retain the characteristics of nineteenth-century music b) away to innovateclassical compositions by adding jazz chords andnon-traditional rhythms and melodies c) an attempt to incorporate eighteenth-century styles into a contemporary idiom d) a movement that sought to revive the music of the ancient Greeks
Which instruments are playing the melody? What is accompanying the melody? How is the melody being presented?
What will be an ideal response?