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JMatthes

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When a pianist uses fists to pound out dissonant groups of adjacent notes, the effect is known as a ____.
 
  A) tone cluster
  B) smear
  C) growl
  D) tintinnabuli

Question 2

The word cappella began to assume two separate and distinctly different meanings during the ____.
 
  A) Notre Dame School
  B) Renaissance
  C) beginning of the monastic movement
  D) Babylonian Captivity



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

D



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