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Why was Nicholas Fouquet imprisoned?

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When the party was all over, Louis had Fouquet thrown into prison under charges of embezzlement and then took over his entire team of artists.

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What was the Fronde?

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a rebellion, in which some members of the French aristocracy conspired to overthrow the young king. The Fronde was mercilessly put down, and Louis vowed to never again let the nobles of his realm have substantial power or influence.

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Which philosopher saw the world as a perfectly ordered and mathematically inspired creation?

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René Descartes

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What did Louis XIV call himself?

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also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil)

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Who used his telescope to prove the heliocentric nature of the solar system?

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Galileo

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What does the word affection mean?

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Affective is an old-fashioned word that is akin to our modern word emotional.

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What are the humors?

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bodily fluids generated in the glands, such as blood, phlegm, and bile

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What kind of singing features music where the words are clearly enunciated in a speech-like manner with simple accompaniment?

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Recitative

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Which country saw the most destruction in the Thirty Years War?

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Germany

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What do we call many notes on a single syllable of text?

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Melisma

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What was another name for the rum-sugar-slave trade in 17th and 18th centuries?

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triangle trade

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What do we call a large work for full orchestra, with contrasting sections played by a solo instrument or small group?

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Concerto

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What was the belief that music had the ability and purpose of moving the emotions?

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the Doctrine of Affections

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What was the name of the style where the bass and harmonies played continuously regardless of what instruments or voices were carrying the melody?

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basso continuo

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What do we call the center part of a fugue where the main theme disappears?

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Episodes

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What do we call it when the chords and melodic figures clearly outline a strong sense of home key?

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tonal

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Who remodeled a portion of the Versailles gardens to make them more sensitive?

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Marie Antoinette

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What is the work we use to describe a landscape that fits our notions of the way it should be ordered?

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Picturesque

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What is the name of singing where the music becomes more important than the words and seeks to explore a single emotion of the character?

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aria

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How did Marie Antoinette die?

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She was beheaded by the guillotine.

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What culture did Revolutionary France model itself after?

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Ancient Rome

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What musical instrument (besides the voice) was most characteristic of the Baroque era?

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Violin

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Who reigned France for 72 years?

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Louis XIV

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What violent event signaled the beginning of the French revolution?

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The storming of the Bastille.

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What do we call a section of a composition that keeps returning throughout?

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ritornello

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What musical composition sounds like improvisatory finger exercises on a keyboard?

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toccata or prelude

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What country is Waterloo in?

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Belgium

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28
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Why did Captain Ahab hate Moby Dick?

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He had taken off his leg.

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Who invented the rotary steam engine?

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James Watt

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Who said Romanticism was “feeling deeply”?

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Lord Byron

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Who wandered about Germany collecting folk tales?

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The Brothers Grimm

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What group of painters celebrated the natural beauty of New York?

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The Hudson River School

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What Romantic work was about a man who sold his soul to the devil?

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Faust

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What medieval theme appears in the last movement of the Symphonie Fantastique?

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Dies irae

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What do we call a short programmatic work for the piano?

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A character piece

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Of the two great pianists of the Romantic era, who was the more virtuosic?

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Franz Liszt

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Who was the “poet of the piano”?

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Frederic Chopin

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What do we call the lighter late-Baroque style of Louis XV’s reign?

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Rococo

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Who wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?

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Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish economist

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What is the French word for the middle class?

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bourgeoisie

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What movement in the 1700s encouraged critical questioning of traditional institutions, customs, and morals, and a strong belief in rationality and science?

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The Enlightenment

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What were the three estates of France?

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nobility,
clergy,
land-owning citizens and middle-class merchants

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What is a Gesamtkunstwerk?

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An art form where a single composer wrote the story, composed the music, staged the production, coached the singers, led the orchestra, and designed the set and costumes.

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Who crowned Napoleon emperor?

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he took the crown from the pope’s hands and placed it on his own head.

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What do we call the rate of chord change in a musical composition?

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harmonic rhythm

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What was the most important musical genre of the Classical period?

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Symphony

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What do we call two phrases of equal length?

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A parallel period?

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What form is the first movement of a symphony usually in?

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Sonata allegro

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What do we call a slow, three-part dance form that was popular for the third movement of a symphony in the Classical period?

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minuet

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What do we call a fast, three-part dance form that was popular for the third movement of a symphony in the Classical period?

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Scherzo

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What do we call the first part of sonata allegro form where we hear all the themes for the first time?

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Exposition

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What do the French call a depressed boredom that sets in once all desires have been met?

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Ennui

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What do we call the third part of sonata allegro form where the themes come back in the tonic key?

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recapitulation

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What about Cezanne gave impetus to Modernism?

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His disregard of correctness of outline.

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What Classical composer was best known for his piano concertos and operas?

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Who stretched the boundaries of the Classical style with his immense and complex symphonies, concertos, piano works, and chamber music?

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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What form is the second movement of Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony in?

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theme and variations

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What do we call a tendency to distort to create intense emotion?

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Expressionism

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59
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Who commanded the English at Waterloo?

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Duke of Wellington

60
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Why did Napoleon delay the battle of Waterloo until 11 AM?

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so that the ground could dry out enough for his

cannonballs to bounce along the valley floor, giving them their maximum effect

61
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Who wrote a book about the psychological effects of color?

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Wassily Kandinsky

62
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Which war serves as the backdrop for Casablanca?

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WWII

63
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What were the net effects of the Industrial Revolution?

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The railroads allowed for transporting goods that were fresh.

64
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What are 19th century inventions?

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Railroads, dynamite, electric lights, phonograph, modern nursing, germ theory, and radiation.

65
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Where is Victor Laszlo from?

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Czechoslovakia

66
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What are the typical subjects of Romanticism?

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Nationalism, Nature, the Supernatural, Nostalgia and Unrequited Love

67
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Where was the first place Napoleon encountered nationalism against the French occupation?

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Spain

68
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What is the German word for “lightning war”?

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Blitzkrieg

69
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Where is Casablanca?

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French Morocco

70
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What brought the United States into World War II

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the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor

71
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In what style are the British Houses of Parliament?

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Gothic

72
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Who wrote “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”?

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Tennyson

73
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What do we call music with some kind of extra-musical association?

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Programmatic

74
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Who wrote a symphony about an opium-induced hallucination?

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Hector Berlioz

75
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What is Ilsa’s favorite song?

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When Time Goes By

76
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What do we call the returning motive in the Symphonie Fantastique?

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idée fixe (fixed idea)

77
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What happens to the poet’s beloved in the Symphonie Fantastique?

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In his hallucinations and nightmares, he kills her.

78
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Why does Ilsa not leave with Rick?

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She finds out her husband is still alive

79
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How does Rick save Annina from Louis?

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She helps her husband win in roulette (?)

80
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What does Rick do with the two letters of transit?

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Gives them to Ilsa and Victor

81
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What does Louis do when he discovers that Rick has shot Major Strasser?

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Tells his men to round up the usual suspects

82
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How does Schubert set the death of the boy in the Erlkönig?

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The piano meanwhile both imitates the horse’s galloping hoofbeats and the boy’s pounding heart. At the end when the horse reaches the house and the boy’s heart stops, Schubert reverts to plain recitative.

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What is the name of the women in Nordic mythology who bring the dead warriors back to Valhalla?

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Valkyrie

84
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What was the longest battle in history?

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The Battle of Verdun

85
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Where did the crisis that touched off World War I occur?

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Bosnia

86
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Which French ruler was overthrown by the Germans in 1871?

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Emperor Napoleon III.

87
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Which painter believed that traditional studio art did not look the way objects appear in real life?

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Edouard Manet

88
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What are some of Debussy’s stylistic techniques?

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Debussy routinely used non-tonal scales, chords that had so many notes, chord successions that did not follow the established rules of tonal music theory.

89
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Why did composers like Debussy use non-tonal scales and chord progressions?

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A general impression existed that Wagner’s hyper-chromaticism had exhausted the possibilities of tonality, and that whatever future music had, it was in a different direction.

Debussy’s reaction to tonality was a rebellion against the German dominance of music in Europe from Beethoven to Wagner. The French were revolted by the triumphant bombast of Wagner’s operas (his crowing over the French defeat in the stupid little pamphlet Das Kapitulation did not help his popularity), and they sought a new, more reserved, more sophisticated mode of expression

created a hazy, dreamy sound that paralleled the tiny brushstrokes and gray shading of visual Impressionism.

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What did Cezanne not like about Impressionism?

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messiness

91
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What does Cezanne use to bring order to his canvases?

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He imposed upon it the order of regular geometric patterns

92
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Who did Vincent Van Gogh write to throughout his career?

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His brother, Theo

93
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Early in the movie we see a man warning an Englishman to “beware of vultures” in Casablanca. What does he do to the Englishman?

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Steals his wallet.

94
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What does Rick tell Louis is the reason he came to Casablanca?

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He came for the waters.

95
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Where has Victor Laszlo come from?

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He escaped from a German prison camp.

96
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What is Louis shocked to discover about Rick’s?

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That there is gambling going on in the establishment.

97
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Which work provoked a riot at its premiere?

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The Rite of Spring by Sergei Diaghilev’s

98
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What did France and England do when Hitler occupied the Rhineland?

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Wishing to avoid another war, France and Britain did nothing.

99
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Where was the Sudetenland?

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demanded that Czechoslovakia turn a region bordering Germany, known as the Sudetenland.

100
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What did the French and English call the war during the winter of 1939 - 40?

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The Winter War

101
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Where was the capital of the French government after the fall of France to the Germans?

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Vichy

102
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Why is Ugarte fleeing from the Germans?

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He has stolen the letters of transit

103
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What is the main theme of a fugue called?

A

Subject

104
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What was the Palace of Versailles before Louis XIV had it remodeled?

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A hunting lodge

105
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What did the word barocco originally refer to?

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A large, irregularly-shaped pearl

106
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Which country was wracked by a Civil War between 1642 - 1649?

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England

107
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What do we call it when performers improvise notes not written on the page?

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Ornamentation

108
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The birth of what art form marks the beginning of the Baroque era?

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Opera

109
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Where did Handel settle and write most of his oratorios?

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England

110
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What do we call a multi-movement instrumental work for one or two solo musical instruments?

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Sonata

111
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What do we call the first section of a fugue?

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Exposition

112
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What do we call the return of the main theme near the end of the fugue?

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Recapitulation

113
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Why did Marie Antoinette want a French country village in her gardens?

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So she could pretend she was a shepherdess.

114
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What did the English call their bloodless revolution of 1688?

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The Glorious Revolution

115
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What do we call the second part of sonata allegro form where the themes wander through various keys?

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The development

116
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Who wrote over 100 symphonies and was considered the master of the genre?

A

Haydn

117
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What is rubato?

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When the pianist alters the tempo frequently, slowing down and then speeding up again.

118
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What is the German word for song?

A

Lied

119
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Who wrote over 600 songs in German?

A

Schubert

120
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What does Bel canto mean?

A

Beautiful singing

121
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What is Rigoletto’s profession?

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Court Jester

122
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Who was Germany’s principle ally in World War I?

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Austria

123
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What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I?

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The Treaty of Versailles

124
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Who was the dictator of Germany during World War II?

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Adolph Hitler

125
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How did the wars and genocide of the Twentieth Century affect art?

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Artists began to believe that beauty was no longer a valid aim for art

126
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How did the invention of the camera change art in the 1800s?

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Artists stopped trying to create realistic portrayals of their subjects.

127
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How did the invention of oil paint in metal tubes change art in the 1800s?

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Painters were no longer tied to their studios and could paint with natural lighting

128
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What did Monet call painting in front of a real-life object?

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Painting from the motif

129
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What do we call the literary parallel to Impressionism?

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Symbolism

130
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What did the French not like about Wagner’s music?

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His music was too bombastic.

131
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What do we call the style of painting that uses paint in tiny dots of color?

A

Pointillism

132
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How did Van Gogh show his excitement in painting?

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With brushstrokes

133
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What do we call an emphasis on geometric forms in art?

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Cubism

134
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What do we call Gauguin’s emphasis on native, folk styles?

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Primitivism

135
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Which work provoked a riot at its premiere?

A

The Rite of Spring

136
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Who nominated an award for art but was denied it by the government because it was so lacking in “mitigating or conciliatory elements”?

A

Käthe Kollwitz

137
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Where was Casablanca made?

A

Hollywood

138
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Who claimed that he brought “peace in our time”?

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Neville Chamberlain

139
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What was the name of the German secret police under the Nazis?

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Gestapo

140
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Where did the Nazis put their political opponents?

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Concentration Camps

141
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Where did the refugees in Casablanca go if they got passports out of the city?

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Lisbon. Portugul

142
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Where does Rick hide the letters of transit?

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The piano

143
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What does Rick tell Louis is the reason he came to Casablanca?

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To see the waters

144
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What is the name of Rick’s piano player?

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Sam

145
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Where did Rick and Ilsa first meet?

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Paris

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