The theme song by Henry Mancini for the 1960 TV series Peter Gunn was a big hit on the music charts and can be described as using_____.

a. banjos for a backwoods flavor
b. central Europe’s string zither instrument to create an exotic mood
c. a choral treatment that stood out because of no instrumentation
d. a driving big-band sound whose frenetic cadence fit chase scenes

d. a driving big-band sound whose frenetic cadence fit chase scenes

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Handel wrote Italian operas that used ________ aria, whose form means "from the top."

a) recitative b) overture c) da capo d) bel canto

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Name the altered scale degree that is always associated with secondary dominants of the dominant.

What will be an ideal response?

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