Author Question: Tolstoy believes that Beethoven's 9th Symphony is bad art because A. music is incapable of ... (Read 51 times)

jlmhmf · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

Tolstoy believes that Beethoven's 9th Symphony is bad art because

A. music is incapable of transmitting the highest religious feeling.
B. it mixes poetry and music.

C. in an age before recordings, few people had an opportunity to hear a symphony that required a large orchestra and a chorus.

D. the feelings transmitted by the music did not unite all people, but only a few.

E. Both A and D

Question 2

A tragedy, according to Aristotle, should involve a:

A. virtuous and just person who is destroyed by an error in judgment.

B. not particularly virtuous person who is destroyed by vice and depravity.

C. virtuous person destroyed by simple bad luck.
D. not particularly virtuous person destroyed by an error in judgment.

E. virtuous person destroyed by vice and depravity.