The phrase that best describes the general shape of melody during the Romantic period is:
a. short, balanced phrases create tuneful melodies; melody more influenced by vocal than instrumental style; frequent cadences produce light, airy feeling
b. wide-ranging, disjunct lines, often chromatic and dissonant; angularity accentuated by use of octave displacement
c. long, singable lines are flexible and increasingly irregular in shape; broad streams of sound move toward powerful climaxes
d. grows longer, more expansive, and more asymmetrical than in previous style periods; idiomatic instrumental style predominates
e. mainly stepwise motion within a moderately narrow range; still mainly diatonic, but includes some intense chromaticism