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【单选题】Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many　　　 that were once considered undesirable noises.ComposerEdgard Varese (1883-1965)　　　 called thus the "liberation of soun
D、..the right to make music with any and all sounds."　　　Electronic music, for example―made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and(5)electronic instruments―may include sounds that in the past would not have been　　　 consdered musicalEnvironmental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated　　　 hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical　　　 composition.But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and nonelectronic　　　 instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic(10) sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments.　　　
A、brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a 　　　 pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In　　　 the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved　　　 percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions.(15) Traditional percussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments　　　 that used to be couriered unconvennonal in Western music―tom-toms, bongos,　　　 slapsticks, maracas―are widelv use
D、　　　 In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of　　　 Microtones. Non-Western music typically divides and interval between two pitches more(20) finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greter number of distinct tones,　　　 or micro tones, within the same interval.Composers such as Krzysztof Pmderecki create　　　 sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters―closely spaced tones played　　　 together and heard as a mass, block, or band of soun
D、The directional aspect of sound has　　　 taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed(25) at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium.　　　Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations,　　　 recent music scores may contain graphlike diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and　　　 novel ways of arranging notation on the page. According to the passage, Krzysziof Pendereckj is known for which of the following practices
A、Using tones that are clumped together
B．Combining traditional and nontradinonal instruments
C．Seating musicians in unusual areas of an auditorium

D、Playing Western music for non-Western audiences

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