Exam 1 Learning Outcomes

Question 1

What new general ways of thinking were introduced in the period from 1690 to 1750?

Answer 1

Rise of middle class
end of Old Order
discoveries like fossils
started learning about non-European peoples

Question 2

What were the three core beliefs of the Enlightenment?

Answer 2

QUIZ QUESTION. They wanted to replace Christianity with a more skeptical sort of religion.
They looked at the world rationally, critically.
They believed that the route to truth lay in science.

Question 3

How does Swift’s A Modest Proposal reflect the social conditions of Enlightenment England?

Answer 3

Irish Problem- he talked about the barbarity of England. Used a normal narrator to explode the problem and dramatize it
business-like sensibility to tragic human problem
commonsensical spirit of Enlightenment.
tidy, orderly mechanism
Uses outlandish ideas and also true ones (p7)

Question 4

How does Pope’s Essay on Man reflect Enlightenment religious philosophy?

Answer 4

QUIZ QUESTION
It was written in heroic couplet poetry.
It starts out with two gentlemen walking outdoors, inspecting flora and fauna.
It is a theodicy (it defends God in the face of evil).
It champions a philosophy called Optimism.

Question 5

How do the writings of Montesquieu and Voltaire reflect Enlightenment social philosophy?

Answer 5

Montesquieu- In (The Spirit of Laws) he applied scientific methods to government. Thought governments could eliminate tyranny by having different social classes share power.
Voltaire- praised Englands flexible class structure, religious tolerance and liberty given to its citizens. He more attacked ancien regime in France through Candide his book

Question 6

What are the main features of the rococo style, as exemplified by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and Boffrand?

Answer 6

PART quiz question.

curvy gold decorations,many windows,white walls and bright space are all, feathers, light flicks of the brush,

Question 7

What were the main achievements of Canaletto and Tiepolo, and how did their city influence their art?

Answer 7

Canaletto- “View” or urban scenes that look like photos

Tiepolo- italian monumental decorations. perspective

Question 8

How did Hogarth’s paintings reflect Enlightenment sensibilities, and how were they “novelistic” in nature

Answer 8

PART Quiz Question. Need to look at Hogarths other pieces beside marriage contract

Question 9

What were the important buildings built during this age, and how did they reflect the conditions and spirit of their times?- Neumann

Answer 9

Worked on residences for prince-bishops
outside is sober but inside has largest staircase-3 rows
space expands with light
White walls.
Pilgrimage church: interlocking ovals with a curving, fluid sensibility. blurred divisions between vertical and horizontal

Question 10

What were the main characteristics of Vivaldi’s concerto style?

Answer 10

concerto-large orchestra of string players and solo performer (who play more difficult themes)
He worked for a conservatory for girls and taught them.
Fast-slow-fast
20-25 players
High Baroque basso continuo
Programmatic-tells a story
Dramatic

Question 11

How did Couperin’s harpsichord suites reflect the French rococo style?

Answer 11

Part Quiz Question.

Question 12

What are the main features of a Bach fugue, and how does Bach’s concerto style differ from Vivaldi’s?

Answer 12

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Question 13

What are the main features of Handel’s English oratorio style?

Answer 13

QUIZ question
 textures that switch back and forth between chordal passages and short contrapuntal ones
	shortened melodies that make the music more dramatic and accessible to middle-class audiences

Question 14

How did the ideals of the Encyclopedia writers match the ideals of the Enlightenment?

Answer 14

they wanted to change the way of thinking
talked about controversial topics
Talked about science
widely read throughout Europe

Question 15

What was the central topic in Rousseau’s Confessions, and why was this book so influential?

Answer 15

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Question 16

Why did the American and French Revolutions represent a triumph of classical liberalism?

Answer 16

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Question 17

What factors led to the rise of neoclassicism in the visual arts, and how did David embody the ideals of that movement?

Answer 17

revolutionary spirit Quiz questions

Question 18

How did Reynolds use the ideals of neoclassicism, and how did Gainsborough differ in his approach?

Answer 18

Part quiz Question. Study about Gainsborough

Question 19

How did English and American architecture of the later 1700s reflect republican aspirations?

Answer 19

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Question 20

How did Rousseau’s music reflect the characteristics of the mid-century galant style, and more specifically, how did it represent a rejection of the earlier baroque style?

Answer 20

no fugal! QUIZ Question

Question 21

What are the chief characteristics of the standard movement pattern?

Answer 21

QUIZ question. but study that chart

Question 22

What are the chief features of sonata-allegro form (as illustrated in Mozart’s A Little Night Music), and how does this form suit the ideals of the Enlightenment?

Answer 22

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Question 23

What are the new features of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and how does this work illustrate the social concerns of its day?

Answer 23

spoken dialogue
fancy artists, 
techonloglly challenging
it was play challenging the upper class
has people singing together
focused on human situation not expected formula
Servants stand up to the arstocrats

Question 24

Oath of the Horatii

Answer 24

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Question 25

Pilgrimage to Cythera.

Answer 25

A work that uses feathery brushstrokes, autumn colors, and a visit to a make-believe island to capture a spirit of melancholic hedonism is

Question 26

Cupid A Captive.

Answer 26

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Question 27

Shortly after the Marriage.

Answer 27

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