Listen to the piece "Handel’s Royal Fireworks", and answer the questions: - Is the main melody or theme conjunct or disjunct?
- What instrument primarily performs the melody or theme(s)?
- Is the harmony primarily consonant or dissonant?
- Would you describe the harmony as full or thin?
- Is the piece homophonic, polyphonic, or monophonic?

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.