final flashcards

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What is ambient music?

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Ambient music is music that interacts with sounds in a physical space, it rewards passive and active listening.

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Who is Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky created the music for rite of spring which is ambient music

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What is Modernism?

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Modernism is an art movement from the 19th and 20th century inspired by new technology, modern industrialization, and science.

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What is Post-modernism

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post modernism is an art movement that deliberately uses older artistic styled, they use irony and are skeptical of new art styles.

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What instrument ensemble did john cage use?

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John cage used any instrumentalists or mix or instrumentalists

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Who created the most used drum base of all time, funky drummer?

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James Brown created the drum line for funky drummer

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Who is the drummer in funky drummer?

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Clyde Stubblefield is the drummer in funky drummer

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What are the 4 pillars of hip hop?

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The 4 pillars of hip hop are djing, mcing, graffiti, and break dancing. all 4 types of art.

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Who created can I kick it?

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Tribe called quest created can I kick it

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What did Ben Burt do?

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Ben Burt Created the infamous little high pitch scream in his music

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Who is elliot smith?

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Elliot smith created and sung miss misery

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Who is celine dion?

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Celine Dion- song my heart will go which was the opening song for titanic

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Who is frida Kola?

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Frida Kola created the two fridas portrait

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What does Pablo Picasso’s Guernica represent ?

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Pablo picasso created guernica depicting the bombing of the city guernica.

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Who is Leonard Bernstein?

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Leonard Bernstein created the music for west side story

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Who is Stephen Sondheim?

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Stephen Sondheim is the lyricist for west side story

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Who is Jerome Robbins?

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Jerome robbins is the choreographer for West side story

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Who is Rita Moreno?

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Rita Moreno is the actress that plays the charcater nita in WSS

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Who is Marcel duchamp?

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Marcel duchamp created a parody of the mona lisa called lhooq and put a urinal in an art museum and called it fountain.

20
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Who is Jean Michel Basquiatt

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Jean micheal basquiat created the 1982 painting untitled which is the most expensive painting in the world

21
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What is not a song of west side story?

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singing in the rain

22
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What is LHOOQ

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LHOOQ is Marcel duchamps parody of the mona lisa

23
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What is the theatre of the absurd?

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The Theatre of the absurd is a mid 20th century movement where charecters are trapped in meanginless situations

24
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What is a thesis statement?

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A thesis statement is a summary of the main part of the essay

25
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In the rite of spring, what do the elders force the main character to do?

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The elders force her to dance herself to death

26
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Lilley museum of art?

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Lilley museum of art is the art museum on campus at UNR

27
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Fountain?

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Marcel created the fountain which was an exhibit of a urinal

28
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What are aesthetics?

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aesthetics is the philosiphy that deals with ideals and artistic types, and and a princaple concerned w beauty and nature of art.

29
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To be or not to be….

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to be to not to be tis wether in the mind its nobler to suffer

30
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What is iambic petameter ?

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lines of 10 syllables alternating unstressed and stressed.

31
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What tense do scholars talk in?

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Scholars talk in present tense

32
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What is a a soliquy

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A charecters inner monologue that the audiance can hear

33
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Who killed bernardo is WSS?

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Tony killed Bernardo

34
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What is conceptual art?

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modern art movement where the idea behind the painting is more important the painting

35
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Who created anima ?

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Thom yorke from radiohead created anima

36
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what is musiking?

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a verb that describes music created by christopher small

37
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WSS is based off which Shakespeare play?

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Romeo and Juliet

38
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what is canon?

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a collection of rules or texts that are considered authortative

39
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What is timbre?

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Timbre is tone color,the quality of music that distingueshes voices and music.

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What is the rennisance?

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Rennisance is frenh word for rebirth, a mid 14-15 century movement associated with europe

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What is diegetic?

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Diegetic is sounds and words that the carecters in the story can hear.

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Who is samuel beckett?

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Samuel becket is the author of the screenplay waiting for godot

43
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What word should you use in academic writing?

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the word You

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What are the tramps in every scene of waiting for the godot?

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Vladimir and estrogen are the tramps in every scene