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Bob-Dole

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Which of the following best defines the term ostinato Mass?
 
  a) Such a mass borrows an existing melodic idea from a different work but freely elaborates it in all voices of the new work
  b) the cantus firmus is repeated so consistently that it always appears in at least one voice at all times
  c) the cantus firmus migrates from voice to voice
  d) the cantus firmus remains consistently in the tenor

Question 2

Which of the following best describes this selection's harmonic idiom?
 
  a) tonal with modulations to related keys at important structural moments
  b) entirely diatonic without any modulation to related or distant keys
  c) entirely chromatic
  d) moderately chromatic



Liamb2179

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d



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