Author Question: What does it mean to rag a melody? a. To syncopate the rhythms of the melody. b. To play the ... (Read 97 times)

plus1 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

What does it mean to rag a melody?

a. To syncopate the rhythms of the melody.
b. To play the melody in a minstrel show, all dressed in rags.
c. To speed up and slow down unpredictably.
d. To play the melody faster so that people can dance to it.

Question 2

Who wrote the book Fundamentals of Music (De institutione musica), a treatise that became the required school text for music theory for more than a millennium?

a. Martianus Capella
b. Boethius
c. St. Ambrose
d. St Augustine of Hippo