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KimWrice

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How did Debussy elicit new timbres from the piano?
 
  a) composing harsh tone clusters
  b) instructing the performer to actually open the piano and pluck the strings by hand
  c) literally removing the hammers from the instrument
  d) instructing performers to play ultra-smooth lines at a persistently soft volume

Question 2

How did Ives describe the nature of his unanswered question?
 
  a) the question of technical progress in musical composition
  b) the perennial question of existence
  c) the nature of God
  d) the question of enduring social inequality



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b



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