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Which statement best describes the manuscripts containing music by Guillaume de Machaut?
 
  a) Machaut used abstract shapes, such as a harp and a circle, to notate his works
  b) Machaut rarely associated his name with his music and his works are plagued with attribution problems
  c) Machaut's works are primarily found in the Squarcialupi Codex
  d) Machaut carefully supervised the preparation of six manuscripts containing his works

Question 2

Set against the musical ideals of its time, this selection is unusual in that it?
 
  a) quotes a well-known plainchant from the Mass of the Dead
  b) quotes a popular song from its composer's day
  c) use of scale patterns borrowed from eastern Europe
  d) quotes from the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony



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