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Pineappleeh · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

How do synthesizers and magnetic tape figure into the larger history of twentieth-century music?

a. They were the most important instruments between the two world wars.
b. Classical composers ignored them while popular artists employed them.
c. Most composers gave up composing for live instruments.
d.They were the most influential instruments of postWorld War II experimentalism.

Question 2

Even though his first publication found great commercial success, William Billings

a. stopped writing music after its release.
b. decided to move to Europe to write music for the nobility.
c. could not support himself as a composer and died in poverty.
d. soon lost faith in the revolutionary cause and forbid its further publication.