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wrbasek0

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What is an ostinato?
 
 

a. solo singing accompanied by a basso continuo
  b. compositional style that exploits the strengths and avoids the weaknesses of
  particular voices and instruments
  c. the text of a chamber cantata, opera, or oratorio
  d. a musical figure, motive, melody, harmony, or rhythm that is repeated again
  and again
  e. the repetition of a musical motive at successively higher or lower degrees of
  the scale



Question 2

________ is numerical shorthand included in musical notation that tells the
  player which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass note.


 
 

a. figured bass
  b. basso continuo
  c. ostinato
  d. dynamics
  e. arpeggio



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Laurenleakan

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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

A


wrbasek0

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Reply 2 on: Jul 25, 2018
Gracias!

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