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Listen to Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, Part I: Introduction, Omens of Spring—Dances of the Youths and Maidens, Ritual of Abduction then indicate the best answer for each of the following questions.
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1.
The melodies of The Rite of Spring are folklike, with
A)narrow ranges.
B)musical fragments.
C)repeated chords.
D)all of the above.
2.
The theme in the introduction is a fragment of a
A)Lithuanian folk tune.
B)Russian folk tune.
C)English folk tune.
D)none of the above.
3.
The polychord that opens the Dances of the Youths and Maidens is so called because it is
A)dissonant.
B)repetitive.
C)a combination of two chords at once.
D)all of the above.
4.
The Ritual of Abduction features
A)changing meters.
B)virtuosic instrumental passages.
C)strong percussion.
D)all of the above.
5.
The Rite of Spring is a primitivist evocation of
A)a solemn pagan rite in which a young girl dances herself to death.
B)a waterfall.
C)an earthquake.
D)a young man on his first hunt.







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