Humanities 9 Flashcards
Which dance technique has no established steps or patterns, requires the dancer to create his or her own, emanating from movements of the body?
Modern dance
natural human movement allowing the artist to be free and create and build his or her own unique movements
What was the first major ballet choreographed by Italian Balthasar de Beaujoyeux?
The Ballet Comique de la Reine commissioned by Catherine de’ Medici
Who was considered to be the father of classic ballet?
Marius Petipa 1822-1910
Made Russia the leading country of ballet
five-act ballet entitled La Fille du Pharaon
La Bayadere
Sleeping Beauty
What was Isadora Duncan known for?
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
What is American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham known for?
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
What was choreographer Doris Humphrey’s known for?
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.
Who is credited for bridging classical ballet and modern dance?
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.
Which dance’s became popluar in the 1960’s?
Ballroom dancing, foxtrot, samba, and salsa.
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?
Jazz
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?
form of dance known as body art
Popular dances of the 1930’s?
Peabody and foxtrot
Popular dances of the 1940’s?
jitterbug
Popular dances of the 1950’s?
stroll, the mashed potato, cha-cha.
Popular dances of the 1960’s?
salsa, the monkey, the pony
Popular dances of the 1970’s?
the hustle and the boogie
Popular dances of the 1980’s?
head banging to heavy metal rock and roll emerged and faded away.
American choreographer Martha Graham often used sets designed by which sculptor?
Isamu Noguchi
Japanese-American sculptor 1904-1988 collaborated with Martha Graham on such abstract ballets as Frontier in 1935
Which contemporary filmmaker sees a connection between Marxist politics and gender relations?
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
Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Petrouchka drew heavily on which influences?
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
Which film was the work of a visionary German director Werner Herzog?
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.
What films tells a story of a totalitarian society in which books are banned and burned?
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.
John Ford’s 1939 epic Western Stagecoach featured which actor as the classic American male?
John Wayne played Ringo Kid
Which composer scored: Company A Little Night Music Sunday in the Park with George West Side Story
Stephen Sondheim
Which composer scored Pippin?
Stephen Schwarz
Which Wagner opera tells the story of a legendary, doomed love affair?
Tristan and Isolde
Which opera tells the tragic story of a young Japanese bride?
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.
Which opera tells a story about a colony of poor artists?
Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme
Which opera tells a story about a nineteenth-century singer in Rome?
Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca
Which opera is a lavish opera about an African princess in Egypt?
Verdi’s Aida
Who wrote these opera's: Parsifal Tristan and Isolde Siegfried Die Meistersinger
Richard Wagner
Which Wagner opera is his version of the Holy Grail legend?
Parsifal
Which Wagner opera is a section of Wagner’s enormous Ring cycle?
Siegfried
Which Wagner opera tells os a medieval German guild of singers?
Die Meistersinger
What describes opera buffa?
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.
Which film established James Dean as an icon of American youth?
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.
The popular Broadway show West Side Story was loosely based on the play?
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
Who believed that a life of virtue or excellence is a matter of knowledge?
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
Who believed that Socrates beliefs placed too much emphasis on knowledge and for virtuous activity is largely a matter of habit and training?
Aristotle
Who believed that the only good this is a good will and that one can know what is right without willing it?
Kant
Who believed that one should do what creates the most pleasure for the greatest number?
Mill’s Utilitarianism
Who believed that human beings are good by nature but are corrupted by their social environment?
Rousseau
What instruments are part of the string family?
Cello, bass, guitar, harp, viola and violin
What instruments are part of the woodwind family?
bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe, recorder, saxophone
What instruments are part of the brass family?
cornet, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba
What instruments are part of percussion?
anything that can be struck, shaken, or scraped
cymbals, gong, bells, drums, timpani, xylophone
what instruments are in the keyboard family?
harpischord, organ, piano
What makes up a quartet?
two violins, a viola and a cello
Which musical style is characterized by a swing feel, a strong rhythmic beat, and improvisation?
Jazz
