American innovations in the arts music belief espoused by many romantic american thinkers that humans should reject tradition and authority and see themselves and the natural world as divine is called                a.  rationalism.      b.  buddhism.      c.  transcendentalism.      d.  romanticism.

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i'm not sure i completely understand your question, but i will do my best.

i think the answer you are looking for is sequence. (see below)

a repeated melodic fragment would be best defined as repetition, while repeated chords (different or the same) could be a chord progression. however, you then mentioned the chord and melodic fragment beginning on higher or lower pitches, in that case, the answer could be best defined as a sequence. the definition of a sequence is as follows: "the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice."

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