The correct answer is A. historical musicology.
This discipline is also called music history. It studies the development of different musical elements through history. For example, it shows how and when the symphony as a musical form has emerged, and how it has changed over the centuries, in accordance with contemporary cultural and artistic trends. It studies the historical contexts, and it will, for example, answer the question why opera was born in the end of the 16th century, and not earlier or later.
Answer:
The line is a metaphor for:
B. A life without dreams.
Explanation:
Let's take a look at the poem:
<em>Hold fast to dreams
</em>
<em>For if dreams die
</em>
<em>Life is a broken-winged bird
</em>
<em>That cannot fly.
</em>
<em> </em>
<em>Hold fast to dreams
</em>
<em>For when dreams go
</em>
<em>Life is a barren field
</em>
<em>Frozen with snow.</em>
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<u>As we can see above, in the first stanza the author compares life to a broken-winged bird after mentioning the death of dreams. What the author means is that a life without dreams is as purposeless as a bird that cannot fly. Dreams are what makes life worth living, what gives us a sense of purpose. Without them, there is no reason to go on.</u>
The answer is 4 August 1944
