Exam One - Part Two Flashcards
What are the genres?
Symphony, string Quartet, Opera, mass, concerto, chamber, jazz combo, and jazz big band.
What is a symphony?
A large musical composition for orchestra
What is a string Quartet?
A group of four people performing on string instruments
What is an opera?
A drama set to music or a musical
What is mass?
A composition intended for worship
What is a concerto?
A solo performance with accompaniment
What is chamber music?
A performance for a smaller room
What is a jazz combo?
Chamber music of the jazz world
What is a jazz big band?
A larger jazz ensemble with sections
What is improvisation?
Composing and performing on the spot
What is Timbre?
The tone quality of the sound
What is ballet?
A dance using traditional prescribed movements on the toes.
What is modern dance?
A dance similar to ballet but emphasizes less graceful and mechanical movements. You are close to the ground, and it is more symbolic
What are the genres of cinema?
Narrative, documentary, and absolute.
What is the purpose of a narrative cinema production?
To tell a story
What is the purpose of a documentary film?
A documentary film attempts to record actuality using a sociological or journalistic approach.
What is an absolute film?
A film created to be abstract beautiful and interesting and has no storyline and is
nonsense
What is a genre?
The kind of intention music is written for.
What is Paleolithic?
The first stage of human culture in which humans discovered fire clothing basic techniques for hunting and gathering and simple social organization
What is pantheon?
A word meaning all the gods
What is a pyramid?
An Egyptian burial tomb of great size and scale containing hidden chambers
What is Cuneiform?
Sumerian writing involving two types of sign, one for syllables and one for words, consisting of wedge marks and combination of wedge marks pressed into damp clay.
What is Neolithic?
Later part of the Stone Age
What did the Egyptians use to represent words?
Hieroglyphics
What did the Sumerians use to write down words?
Cuneiform.
What was the code of Hammurabi?
An Eye for an eye tooth for tooth
What is kouros?
The freestanding statue of a new male youth.
What is Kore?
A sculpture of a fully dressed that is the female counterpart of kouroi.
What is contrapposto?
The arrangement of body parts in the sculpture so that the weight bearing leg is apart from the free leg thereby shifting the hip/shoulder access
What is a polis?
The basic Greek city state consisting of a collection of self-governing people
What is an Acropolis
High city place in the center of the city occupied by the temples of the gods
Who is Minos?
A king of the Minoans.
What are modes?
The Greek music equivalent to our scales. Everyday of the week, God, and planet had its own mode.
What was the Greek doctrine of ethos?
When philosophers believe that music influenced in society, moods and behaviors.
What is aesthetics?
A branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty and art and their relation to human beings.
What is classicism?
A style of art relying on the fundamentals of simplicity and clarity of structure and appeal to the intellect.
What is Hellenism?
And approach to art characterized by individuality, virtuosity, and emotion
Who studied aesthetics?
Plato and Aristotle.
What are the orders of Ancient Greece?
Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric
Characteristics of the Doric order?
Simple and wide column.
Characteristics of the ionic order?
The top looks like a scroll and the Column is the same size all the way down.
Characteristics of the Corinthian order?
Very elaborate top and thin column.
What was the Persian war?
Battle between the Persian empire and the Greek empire.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
Wars between Sparta and Athens.
Who was polyclitus?
A Greek sculptor that developed the rules for constructing the ideal human figure.
What are engaged columns?
Columns attached to a wall. Not free standing.
