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Stack #159793
WGU Art Appreciation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Renaissance |
| Michelanchelo | Renaissance |
| Piero della Francisco | Renaissance |
| Albrecht Drurer | Renaissance |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Boroque |
| Judith Leyster | Boroque |
| Francois Boucher | Rococo |
| Francisco Goya | Romantacism |
| Eugene Delacrouix | Romantacism |
| Jaques Louis David | NeoClassasism |
| Thomas Cole | Romantacism - Hudson River School |
| John Singer Sargent | Realism |
| Edouard Manet | Impressionism |
| Mary Cassett | Impressionism |
| Claude Monet | Impressionism |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Post Impressionism |
| Henri Matisse | Modernism - Fauvism |
| Pablo Picasso | Modernism - Cubism |
| Alfred Stieglitz | Modernism - Photography |
| Georgia O'Keefe | Modernism |
| Jackson Pollack | Modernism - Abstract Expressionism |
| Andy Warholl | Modern - Pop Art |
| Pitch | any sound that sets up regular vibrations in the air and is perceived as a discrete tone |
| Duration | the persistence of a tone in time, meaning how long it lasts |
| Dynamics | usually the volume of a tone, meaning how loud it is, but also the articulation of the tone, meaning the manner it should be played |
| Timbre | the "color" of the tone, meaning which instrument plays it |
| Meter | The rhythmic patterning formed by the measures is called “meter.” |
| Melody | Melody” strings together musical notes in an agreeable succession or arrangement; it is a series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole. Frequently, the melody of a piece is the part that we remember the most. Many successful compositions dep |
| Binary | classical form in which two themes interact |
| Ternary | classical form in which two themes interact in a more complex way |
| Rondo | a classical form in which three themes interace |
| Monophony | a single musical line that is performed in unison by one or more instruments. |
| Polyphony | two or more musical lines of relatively equal importance performed at the same time. |
| Homophony | uses chords to accompany one main melody. |
| Cantata | A multi-sectional vocal work, either sacred or secular in subject matter, usually featuring solos, duets, and choruses, and ranging in accompaniment from small chamber ensembles to large orchestras |
| Concerto | were sacred pieces written for a combination of voices and instruments. |
| Fantasia | An instrumental work that attempts to give the impression of being spontaneously improvised by the performer, often characterized by a mischievous resistance to normative style and structure, and managing to communicate either the performer's technical pr |
| Fugue | A polyphonic instrumental work employing the most rigorous of imitative techniques, wherein the theme (or subject) is stated successively in each of the parts (or voices), alternating between the tonic and dominant keys, and subjected to continuous expans |
| Madrigal | polyphonic vocal work, usually written for four or five voices, setting a pastoral poem to music, performed without instrumental accompaniment, and intended for secular use |
| Mass | sung portions of the Roman Catholic liturgy |
| Motet | polyphonic vocal work, setting a sacred Latin text (not the text of the Mass) to music, intended for liturgical or devotional use, and performed without instrumental accompaniment |
| Nocturne | An instrumental work, usually for piano, that attempts to evoke the mood and feelings associated with the night |
| Opera | A fully-produced, multi-sectional work for the theater whose text (or libretto) is primarily sung, and which is accompanied by instruments, usually a large orchestra |
| Oratorio | a multi-sectional work for vocalists and orchestra, which uses the same structural elements as opera. The subject matter of oratorio, however, is religious |
| Overture | orchestral work, usually in two or three contrasting sections, used as the introduction to an opera or other dramatic piece |
| Rondo | A multi-sectional work, or movement, whose theme recurs multiple times in the course of the piece, always in the tonic key, much like a refrain. |
| Sonata | a multi-movement work either for a solo chordal instrument (piano, harpsichord), or for one or several solo melody instruments |
| Suite | A multi-movement instrumental work, for one or any combination of instruments, or for orchestra, where the movements are derived from certain dance forms, such as the allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue |
| Symphony | A multi-movement orchestral work, similar in structure to the sonata, cultivated from about 1725, generally perceived as one of the great achievements of Western art music. |
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