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1
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The favorite subjects of the Romantic poets were: a. comedy and farce. c. historical events.
b. love, longing, and nature. d. all of the above

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B. love,longing, and nature

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A song form in which the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but introduces new or significantly varied material when the text requires it is called:

a. strophic. c. modified strophic.
b. through composed. d. ternary.

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C. modified strophic

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Schubert and his friends organized evening gatherings of artists, writers, and musicians, called: a. Abendmusiken. c. Schubertiads.
b. soirées. d. all of the above

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C. Schubertiads

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In which genre was Schubert NOT indebted to Classical traditions? a. Lied c. piano sonata
b. chamber music d. symphony

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A. Lied

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Approximately how many songs did Schubert compose?

a. 300–400 c. 500–600
b. 400–500 d. more than 600

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D. more than 600

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What is vernacular music?

a. opera sung in English
b. popular songs sung in a country’s native language
c. music in traditional European genres and forms
d. lighter music, such as for dancing and singing

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B. popular songs sung in a countrys native language

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What nationality was Stephen Foster?

a. American b. English c. german d. African American

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A. American

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The most important keyboard intrument of the romantic period. a. harpsichord. b. piano. c. organ d. clavichord

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B. piano

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Which of the following does NOT characterize the piano?

a. It is capable of only one dynamic level.
b. It is suitable for both polyphonic and homophonic textures.
c. It is an expressive instrument.
d. It is a staple of refined education.

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A. It is capable of only one dynamic level

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Which of the following was NOT a technical improvement to the nineteenth-century piano? a. It was made louder.

b. Its range was expanded.
c. A second keyboard was added.
d. It was given improved mechanical action.

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C. a second keyboard was added

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The short, lyric piano piece is the instrumental equivalent of: a. the symphony. c. the concerto. b. the song. d. the opera.

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B. The song

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Nineteenth-century composers of the short, lyric piano piece included:

a. Johannes Brahms.
b. Robert Schumann.
c. Frederic Chopin
d. all of the above

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D. All of the above

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Chopin is credited with developing the:

a. modern piano style.
b. symphonic poem.
c. overture
d. romantic symphony

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A. modern piano style

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With which famous novelist did Chopin become romantically involved?

a. George Sand c. Gertrude Stein
b. Alexandre Dumas d. Emily Brontë

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A. George Sand

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Which of the following does NOT characterize Chopin’s Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4?

a. moderate triple meter c. rubato
b. simple A-B-A form d. chromaticism

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B. simple A-B-A form

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Which composer is known as the “poet of the piano”?

a. Robert Schumann c. Hector Berlioz
b. Frédéric Chopin d. Johannes Brahms

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B. Frederic Chopin

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was discouraged from pursuing a career as a composer because:

a. she was a woman. c. she had no talent.
b. she was primarily a performer. d. all of the above

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A. she was a woman

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Which of the following composed the piano cycle The Year?

a. Frédéric Chopin c. Clara Schumann b. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel d. Franz Liszt

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B. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

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The manuscript for Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s September: At the River, from The Year, has poetic lines by:

a. Wilhelm Hensel. c. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
b. Heinrich Heine. d. Friedrich Schiller.

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C. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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How does Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s The Year reach a level of achievement beyond that of her brother Felix?

a. It develops one theme throughout the twelve pieces.
b. It is a large-scale work unified by musical and extramusical links.
c. It demands greater virtuosity than Felix’s works.
d. It achieved great popularity when it was published.

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B. it is a large scale work unified by musical and extramusical links

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Which of the following was the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?

a. Louis Moreau Gottschalk c. Stephen Foster
b. Amy Cheney Beach d. Charles Ives

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A. Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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The familiar tune quoted near the end of Gottschalk’s work The Banjo is:

a. The Star-Spangled Banner. c. Camptown Races.
b. Yankee Doodle. d. Hail, Columbia.

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C. Camptown Races

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Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called:

a. absolute music. c. background music.
b. program music. d. pure music.

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B. Program Music

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Hector Berlioz was born and spent most of his career in:

a. Italy. c. Germany. b. France. d. Hungary.

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B. France

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How many movements are in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique? a. one c. three
b. four d. five

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D. Five!!

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Which of the following is NOT true of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

a. The program deals entirely with nature.
b. The program was inspired by the composer’s infatuation with an actress. c. The program presents a morbid artist in lovesick despair.
d. The program is thought to be autobiographical.

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A. the program deals entirely with nature

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In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, what is the idée fixe?

a. a chant from the Mass for the Dead appearing in the finale b. a shepherd song in the third movement
c. the basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement d. a theme and variations, heard in the march movement

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C. The basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement

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Which of the following does NOT characterize the March to the Scaffold from Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

a. duple meter c. diabolical mood
b. dominance of the string instruments d. minor mode

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B. dominance of the string instruments

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The Dies irae is:

a. the idée fixe in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. b. a Lied by Schubert.
c. a chant from the Mass for the Dead.
d. an opera by Berlioz.

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C. a chant from the Mass for the Dead

30
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The concept of a program overture had its origin in the:

a. program symphony. b. concert overture.
c. symphonies of Beethoven. d. opera overture.

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D. Opera Overture

31
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Another name for the symphonic poem is:

a. concerto overture.
b. tone poem.
c. program symphony. d. musical poem.

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B. tone poem

32
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Nationalism is characteristic of all of the following EXCEPT:

a. Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies. c. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
b. Chopin’s sonatas. d. Dvorêák’s Slavonic Dances.

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B. Chopin’s sonatas

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Which of the following was NOT a Russian composer?

a. Borodin
b. Rimsky-Korsakov
c. Smetana
d. Tchaikovsky

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A. Borodin

34
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What is the form of Grieg’s Morning Mood?

a. sonata form
b. variations
c. rondo
d. A-B-A’

35
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Which movement of a Romantic symphony is most likely to be strongly rhythmic and dancelike? a. sonata-allegro c. scherzo
b. theme and variations d. none of the above

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C. Scherzo

36
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How many movements does a typical Romantic symphony contain? a. one c. three
b. two d. four

37
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Brahms composed his German Requiem after the death of:
a. Robert Schumann. c.Joseph Joachim. d) his mother.

b. Clara Schumann.

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D. his mother

38
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Brahms maintained a lifelong, close relationship with a. Fanny Mendelssohn.

b. Clara Schumann.
c. George Sand.
d. Amy Beach.

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B. Clara Schumann

39
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Brahms wrote ________ symphonies. a. four

b. five
c. nine
d. 104

40
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The singing star Giuseppina Strepponi helped launched the career of: a. Gaetano Donizetti.

b. Vincenzo Bellini.
c. Richard Wagner.
d. Giuseppe Verdi.

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D. Giuseppe Verdi

41
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Italian comic opera is called:

a. opera seria.
b. opéra comique.
c. opera buffa.
d. Singspiel.

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C. opera buffa

42
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Who dies at the end of Rigoletto? a. Rigoletto

b. the duke of Mantua
c. Sparafucile
d. Gilda, Rigoletto’s daughter

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D. Gilda, his daughter

43
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The ensemble that follows “La donna è mobile”in Act III of Rigoletto is a(n):a. duet. b. quartet.

c. sextet.
d. octet.

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B. quartet

44
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Which of the following are characteristic of Beijing opera?

a. stylized gestures c. colorful costumes
b. dance d. all of the above

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D. all of the above

45
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A special theater was built at ________ for the presentation of Wagner’s music dramas. a. Dresden c. Berlin
b. Munich d. Bayreuth

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D. Bayreuth

46
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Wagner’s total artwork, in which all the arts—music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle—are fused together, is called:

a. the Gesamtkunstwerk. b. leitmotifs.
c. the Ewigemelodie. d. cyclic unity.

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A. The Gesamtkunstwerk

47
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Wagner called his operas: a. tone poems. b. music dramas. c. oratorios. d. operettas.

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B. music dramas

48
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In Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, who are the Valkyries?
the nine daughters of Wotan c. the Rhine maidens
the Nibelung dwarfs d. the enemies of Wotan

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A. The nine daughters of Wotan

49
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Tchaikovsky’s fanciful ballet about a child’s Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is: a. Swan Lake. c. Pathétique.
b. Sleeping Beauty. d. The Nutcracker.

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D. The Nutcracker

50
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The keyboard instrument featured in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker, is the: a. piano. c. harpsichord.
b. celesta. d. organ.

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B. Celesta

51
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The leading composer of Italian opera in the late-Romantic era was: a. Rossini c. Puccini
b. Leoncavallo d. Mascagni

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C. Puccini

52
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Which of the following operas is NOT by Puccini?

a. Madame Butterfly b. La bohème c. Pagliacci d. Tosca

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C. pagliacci

53
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The Japanese shamisen is: a. a hand drum.

b. a kind of flute. c. a poetic form.
d. a plucked string instrument.

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D. a plucked string instrument

54
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The Libera me from Fauré’s Requiem features which vocal soloist? a. soprano c. tenor
b. contralto d. baritone

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D. baritone

55
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The mood at the end of Libera me from Fauré’s Requiem is: a. ecstatic. c. serene.
b. mournful. d. dramatic.

56
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The French movement in poetry that rebelled against traditional modes of expression is called:

a. Imagism.
b. Symbolism. c. Expressionism. d. Impressionism.

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B. Symbolism

57
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Mallarmé and V erlaine were:

a. Symbolist poets.
b. Impressionist painters. c. Impressionist composers. d. none of the above

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A. Symbolist poets

58
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The Symbolist poets were strongly influenced by the works of:

a. George Sand. c. Robert Frost.
b. Emily Brontë. d. Edgar Allan Poe.

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D. Edgar Allan Poe

59
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The whole-tone scale used by Impressionist composers derives from:

a. the post-Romantic music of Mahler. c. medieval church music.
b. non-Western music. d. the Classical-Romantic tradition.

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B. non western music

60
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Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of a gamelan from:
a. Japan. b. Algeria. c. Turkey. d. Java.

61
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What nationality was Claude Debussy? a. German

b. French c. Italian d. Austrian

62
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Which of the following was NOT composed by Debussy?

a. Clair de lune c. Boléro
b. La mer d. Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”

63
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Which of the following describes the activities of Harry T. Burleigh? a. He studied with Dvorêák.

b. He arranged spirituals for voice and piano.
c. He became a music publisher.
d. all of the above

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D. all of the above

64
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The spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects qualities of which tradition(s)? a. Native American c. European American

b. African American
d. all of the above

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D. all of the above

65
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Which of the following distinguishes the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot from that of Harry T. Burleigh?

a. The Fisk Jubilee Singers perform a cappella.
b. The Fisk Jubilee Singers arrangement has more complicated harmonies.
c. The Fisk Jubilee Singers incorporate polyphony.
d. all of these

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A. The Fisk Jubilee Singers perform a cappella

66
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An important American instrumental ensemble of the nineteenth century was the:

a. symphony orchestra. c. brass band.
b. minstrel show. d. jazz band.

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C. Brass Band

67
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Which of the following does NOT describe the career of Patrick S. Gilmore?

a. led the Union Army band in concerts
b. composed When Johnny Comes Marching Hone
c. was a virtuoso cornet player
d. earned title as “March King”

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D. earned title as “march king”

68
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John Philip Sousa conducted the:

a. Washington Posts.
b. U.S. Marine Band.
c. New York Civic Band. d. Boston Pops Band.

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B. U.S. Marine Band

69
Q

John Philip Sousa composed: a. The Washington Post.

b. Semper Fidelis.
c. The Stars and Stripes Forever. d. all of the above

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D. all of the above

70
Q

Which American composer became known as the “King of Ragtime”? a. Sousa c. Strauss
b. Joplin d. Armstrong

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