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Fine arts
Art that is produced more for beauty or spiritual significance than for physical utility. Painting, sculpture, music, literature, dance, and drama are ______ ___.
Ella Fitzgerald
A 20th century African-American jazz snf popular singer.
Flute
A high-pitched WOODWIND, held horizontally by the player, played by blowing across an opening.
Flying buttress
An external, arched support for the wall of cathedral or other building. Flying buttresses were used in many GOTHIC CATHERDRALS. They enabled builders to put up very tall but comparatively thin walls, so that much of the wall space could be filled with stained glass windows.
Folk music
A kind of music originating from the ordinary people of a region or nation and continued by oral tradition. The BALLAD is a typical form of ____ _____.
Forte
A musical direction meaning “to be played loudly.” The opposite of PIANO (softly).
Fortissimo
A musical direction meaning “to be played very loudly;” the opposite of PIANISSIMO (very softly).
Stephan Foster
A 19th century American songwriter. Songs include beautiful dreamer, old folks at home, Jeanie with the light brown hair, my old Kentucky home.
French horn
A mellow-sounding brass instrument, pitched lower than a trumpet and higher than a tuba.
Fresco
A painting on wet plaster. The Last Supper by Da Vinci is a fresco.
Gargoyle
A sculpture depicting grotesque human shapes or evil spirits…used in many building of the MIDDLE AGES, most notably on GOTHIC CATHEDRALS. Some gargoyles drained rainwater, sending it clear of the wall of the building.
Paul Gauguin (goh-GANN)
A 19th century French painter best known for his use of color and his paintings of Polynesian women.
George Gershwin
A 20th century American composer known for putting element of JAZZ into the forms of CLASSICAL MUSIC, such as CONCERTO. Works include Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris, Porgy and Bess.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Two Englishmen of the 19th who wrote many witty OPERETTAS satirizing society of the VICTORIAN PERIOD. Gilbert wrote the lyrics and Sullivan wrote the music.
“God Bless America”
A patriotic song written by Irving Berlin. It begins, God Bless America, Land that I Love.
