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____ was a compulsive lover of music and could not endure even a single evening without it. He published numerous books of madrigals as well as some religious music.
 
  A) Jacques Arcadelt
  B) Thomas Weelkes
  C) Claudin de Sermisy
  D) Carlo Gesualdo

Question 2

Opera was the result of:
 
  A) someone uncovering a copy of Hildegard von Bingen's play.
 
  B) a small group of philosophers, musicians, and poets (the Camerata) who met in Florence to consider reviving the synthesis of music and drama as it had been done in the ancient Greek cultures.
 
  C) a group of housewives who overheard their children acting out stories with music and shared this practice with their composer husbands.
 
  D) nothing in particular. It just came about one day as a form of entertainment.
 
  E) an improvised performance at the court of the duke of Mantua.



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Answer to Question 1

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