Humanities 9

Question 1

Which dance technique has no established steps or patterns, requires the dancer to create his or her own, emanating from movements of the body?

Answer 1

Modern dance

natural human movement allowing the artist to be free and create and build his or her own unique movements

Question 2

What was the first major ballet choreographed by Italian Balthasar de Beaujoyeux?

Answer 2

The Ballet Comique de la Reine commissioned by Catherine de’ Medici

Question 3

Who was considered to be the father of classic ballet?

Answer 3

Marius Petipa 1822-1910
Made Russia the leading country of ballet
five-act ballet entitled La Fille du Pharaon
La Bayadere
Sleeping Beauty

Question 4

What was Isadora Duncan known for?

Answer 4

creation of Modern Dance, wanted to be free from the control of ballet, desired to let body rather than mind dictate the moves, took of slippers and danced bare foot, founded schools in Berlin, Paris, and Moscow.
Other contributors: Agnes de Milles, Martha Graham, Ruth St. Dennis, and Ted Shawn

Question 5

What is American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham known for?

Answer 5

modern dance techniques that begins with the center of the body and follows contractions and releases of muscles when movement occurs. Technique is based on breath rhythms and is recognized for sharpness and preciseness

Question 6

What was choreographer Doris Humphrey’s known for?

Answer 6

Her movement technique was softer than Martha Graham’s, her’s was created from natural observations of human movement, she examined rhythms of breath, weight shifts, motion, and successional flow.

Question 7

Who is credited for bridging classical ballet and modern dance?

Answer 7

Agnes de Mille
She stressed the understanding that dance is movement, and the body is its instrument. She believed that a personal exploration must be completed to understand and use the body.

Question 8

Which dance’s became popluar in the 1960’s?

Answer 8

Ballroom dancing, foxtrot, samba, and salsa.

Question 9

Which element did choreographers add to American musicals such as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street, Chicago, A Chorus Line and Evita?

Answer 9

Jazz

Question 10

What form of dance emerged in the 1970’s and emerged from the general mood of American’s who at that time were irritated and angry. This form of dance was used to demonstrate at political rallies. The artists were costumed or appeared nude and performed in galleries and small performance spaces?

Answer 10

form of dance known as body art

Question 11

Popular dances of the 1930’s?

Answer 11

Peabody and foxtrot

Question 12

Popular dances of the 1940’s?

Answer 12

jitterbug

Question 13

Popular dances of the 1950’s?

Answer 13

stroll, the mashed potato, cha-cha.

Question 14

Popular dances of the 1960’s?

Answer 14

salsa, the monkey, the pony

Question 15

Popular dances of the 1970’s?

Answer 15

the hustle and the boogie

Question 16

Popular dances of the 1980’s?

Answer 16

head banging to heavy metal rock and roll emerged and faded away.

Question 17

American choreographer Martha Graham often used sets designed by which sculptor?

Answer 17

Isamu Noguchi

Japanese-American sculptor 1904-1988 collaborated with Martha Graham on such abstract ballets as Frontier in 1935

Question 18

Which contemporary filmmaker sees a connection between Marxist politics and gender relations?

Answer 18

Lina Wertmuller
Italian director was a student of Federico Fellini, and often analyzes sex in terms of Marxist politics in works such as Love and Anarchy

Question 19

Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Petrouchka drew heavily on which influences?

Answer 19

Russian folklore and tradition
Produced by Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe in 1911 Paris, draws its narrative from the story of a Russian country fair at which Petrouchka is one of the three dolls brought to life by a magician

Question 20

Which film was the work of a visionary German director Werner Herzog?

Answer 20

Aguierre, The Wrath of God
Tells the heavily symbolic tale of an obsessive Spanish conquistador’s journey into the Amazonia jungle to find the mystical city El Dorado.

Question 21

What films tells a story of a totalitarian society in which books are banned and burned?

Answer 21

Francois Truffaut’s 1966 film Fahrenheit-451 was adapted from the Ray Bradbury novel, in which a repressive future world employs firemen not to stop fires, but to burn books.

Question 22

John Ford’s 1939 epic Western Stagecoach featured which actor as the classic American male?

Answer 22

John Wayne played Ringo Kid

Question 23

Which composer scored:
Company
A Little Night Music
Sunday in the Park with George
West Side Story

Answer 23

Stephen Sondheim

Question 24

Which composer scored Pippin?

Answer 24

Stephen Schwarz

Question 25

Which Wagner opera tells the story of a legendary, doomed love affair?

Answer 25

Tristan and Isolde

Question 26

Which opera tells the tragic story of a young Japanese bride?

Answer 26

Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini wrote Madame Butterfly in 1904, in it he dramatized the tale of a young Japanese bride first wooed and then abandoned by an American naval Lt.

Question 27

Which opera tells a story about a colony of poor artists?

Answer 27

Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme

Question 28

Which opera tells a story about a nineteenth-century singer in Rome?

Answer 28

Giacomo Puccini's Tosca

Question 29

Which opera is a lavish opera about an African princess in Egypt?

Answer 29

Verdi's Aida

Question 30

``` Who wrote these opera's: Parsifal Tristan and Isolde Siegfried Die Meistersinger ```

Answer 30

Richard Wagner

Question 31

Which Wagner opera is his version of the Holy Grail legend?

Answer 31

Parsifal

Question 32

Which Wagner opera is a section of Wagner's enormous Ring cycle?

Answer 32

Siegfried

Question 33

Which Wagner opera tells os a medieval German guild of singers?

Answer 33

Die Meistersinger

Question 34

What describes opera buffa?

Answer 34

Comedy. Opera buffa was the Italian comic opera of the early 18th century, which with its emphasis on humor, farcical plots, and frivolity, and catchy musical numbers, closely parallels modern musical comedy.

Question 35

Which film established James Dean as an icon of American youth?

Answer 35

Rebel without a cause. Written by Nicholas Ray in 1955. Dean portrays a searching, alienated youth who rejects both the hypocritical values of his middle-class parents and the competitive violence of his peers.

Question 36

The popular Broadway show West Side Story was loosely based on the play?

Answer 36

Romeo and Juliet Written by Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, opened on Broadway in 1957. Shakespeare's doomed young lovers from feuding families was updated to the tale of NYC teenagers Tony and Maria.

Question 37

The controversial practiced developed during the 1960's in which artists confronted or interacted with spectators, or used their own bodies as an artistic medium is called?

Answer 37

performance art a broad ranging term which includes environments and happenings, staged by artists like Jim Dine, Claes Oldenberg, and Yves Klein in order to bombard the spectator with sensations and experiences which were extreme, bewildering, and often, subversive of the social status quo.

Question 38

Which modern choreographer, based in NYC, and featuring a company of young black, white, and Asian dancers, used dance as a means to explore and interpret the American black experience?

Answer 38

Alvin Ailey He formed his own dance company in 1958 and drew a whole new kind of audience to modern dance with works such as Revelations, which used Negro spiritual music or blues and jazz to express the experience of the American black.

Question 39

Who believed that a life of virtue or excellence is a matter of knowledge?

Answer 39

Socrates He claimed to know nothing himself, he seems convinced that the unexamined life is not worth living because virtue and happiness come only with the search for knowledge

Question 40

Who believed that Socrates beliefs placed too much emphasis on knowledge and for virtuous activity is largely a matter of habit and training?

Answer 40

Aristotle

Question 41

Who believed that the only good this is a good will and that one can know what is right without willing it?

Answer 41

Kant

Question 42

Who believed that one should do what creates the most pleasure for the greatest number?

Answer 42

Mill's Utilitarianism

Question 43

Who believed that human beings are good by nature but are corrupted by their social environment?

Answer 43

Rousseau

Question 44

What instruments are part of the string family?

Answer 44

Cello, bass, guitar, harp, viola and violin

Question 45

What instruments are part of the woodwind family?

Answer 45

bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe, recorder, saxophone

Question 46

What instruments are part of the brass family?

Answer 46

cornet, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba

Question 47

What instruments are part of percussion?

Answer 47

anything that can be struck, shaken, or scraped | cymbals, gong, bells, drums, timpani, xylophone

Question 48

what instruments are in the keyboard family?

Answer 48

harpischord, organ, piano

Question 49

What makes up a quartet?

Answer 49

two violins, a viola and a cello

Question 50

Which musical style is characterized by a swing feel, a strong rhythmic beat, and improvisation?

Answer 50

Jazz