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Fine Arts/Music
Fine Arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many beats does a quarter note get | it gets 1 beat |
| What does presto mean | very fast |
| what does adagio mean? | slow |
| What is a chord? | 3 or more notes played at the same time |
| What are chordophones? | Stringed Instruments |
| What are some examples of stringed instruments? | VIOLIN the best instrument(I'm not biased)cello, double bass, guitar, lute, and the worst instrument- the VIOLA (I'm still not biased) |
| What are Aerophones? | woodwinds and brass |
| What are some examples of woodwinds? | Piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone |
| What are some examples of brass instruments? | trumpet, trombone, french horn, tuba; also flugelhorn, baritone, and bugle |
| Percussion is split into what two groups? | Membranophones and Idiophones |
| Keyboards are part of what group? | Varies |
| What is pitch? | The highness or lowness of a sound |
| What is the difference for an abbreviation of a minor chord and a major chord? | Minor is lower case (example, m3) Major is uppercase (example M3) |
| what does a harmonic minor have that a natural minor doesn't? | an augmented second |
| What is a beat? | A steady pulse that underlines most music |
| What is a tempo? | The speed of a beat |
| What is rhythm? | the way music is organized in time |
| What does andente mean? | "at a walking tempo" |
| What does lento and grave mean? | very slow |
| what does allegro mean? | fast |
| what does moderato mean? | at a moderate pace |
| what is harmony? | when two or more tones are sounding simultaneously |
| What is a phrase? | a cohesive musical thought followed by a very short pause |
| What is a theme? | a set of phrases that make a complete melody |
| What are the 7 elements of art? | Line, shape, form, color, texture, value, and space. |
| What are the different techniques in art? | Drawing, Painting, Architecture, Sculpture, and Printmaking |
| What are the 3 primary colors? | red, blue, and yellow |
| What are the 3 secondary colors? | orange, green, and violet |
| What is it called when you mix a secondary and a primary color? | a tertiary or intermediate color |
| What is perspective? | The illusion of depth in art. |
| What 3 things is paint usually made of? | Pigments, binders and solvents |
| What are the 4 main ways a sculpture is created? | Carving, modeling, casting, and construction |
| Is black and white a hue? | NO |
| What is Black and White? | neutrals |
| What is Printmaking? | It is a group of mechanically aided 2 dimensional process of combining multiple original art works. |
| What is the post and lintel construction technique? | A wooden or stone beam is placed horizontally across upright posts |
| What does it mean when "f" is written in the sheet music. | it means be LOUD |
| what does it mean when "mf" is written in the sheet music? | it means be at a normal volume |
| what does it mean when "p" is written in the sheet music? | BE QUIET |
| what does "rit" mean when in the sheet music. | It means ritard or ritardando, which is telling you to slow the tempo |
| what does it mean when < or > is written on the music note? | to accent the note |
| What's the difference from a repeat sign and an end sign? | The repeat sign has two dots (look it up I can't describe it very well) |
| What's the difference from a whole rest and a half rest? | The whole rest has a line on the top, where as the half rest has it on the bottom. |
| What is Composition in art? | The way the artist uses the elements of art, in 3D or 2D art |
| What is Pattern? | A repetition of certain elements, usually line and color |
| What is balance in art? | equal distribution of visual weight in a work of art |
| What is asymmetrical balance in art? | A visual balance achieved through the organization of unlike objects |
| What is Contrast? | Usually made up of color, shape, perspective and value, it is when the rest of the composition creates a focus point. |
| What is Proportion | refers to the size relationships among the object in the composition |
| What's Scale? | It refers to the relative size of elements with in the artwork. |
| What did the Romans call concrete? | opus caementicium |
| Were the romans the first to use concrete? | NO |
| Where was concrete invented | It was invented in ancient near east |
| What days do we meet with Mr. Felias? | Wednesdays |
| what is ashlar masonry? | cut stone construction |
| What were the advantages to concrete? | it was strong, durable, inexpensive, and convenient |
| What was the pantheon made for? | It was a building made for religious worship |
| What are coffers? | square sunken in decorative panels on the dome. |
| What do coffers do? | Coffers lessens the domes weight without getting rid of the buildings structural integrity |
| What is the oculus in the Pantheon? | It was a 27ft opening that was the only light source |
| How did the Pantheon get its name? | It derived from greek words "pan," meaning "all," and "theos," meaning "gods". |
| Why did the Pantheon get its name? | It got its name because it worshiped all 5 planet gods. |
| Who are the Planet gods? | Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus, and Mercury. |
| What is Mummification? | the embalming and wrapping of the human body for preservation |
| how long was the embalming process? | 72 days |
| What was the 1st step in the embalming process? | The removal of every organ in the body except the heart. |
| What was the 2nd step in the embalming process | The body was packed with a dry natron- a natural compound of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, dissolving body fat |
| What was the 3rd and final step in the embalming process? | The body was washed and coated with oils, and then wrapped up in 20 layers of linen |
| What are Fayum Portraits? | Portraits painted onto the mummy cases, depicting the person who died |
| What is encaustic? | A technique where painters mixed colored pigments and wax and applied them on a smooth surface |
| What made the Portrait of a Young Woman in Red special? | it is a fayum portrait that stayed intact, it even still has the gold leaf. |
| What is a Coda? | Tail in italian, a conclusive ending to a composition |
| In the medieval period, a _____ building style developed that alternated between strong _________ and ________ | skeletal, buttresses, thin walls and stained-glass windows. |
| In 1850, the Crystal Palace was named mainly because... | of the many glass walls that were held in place by slim, iron rods |
| Reliefs are... | Sculptures intact to a surface |
| What is the Chartres Cathedral's official name? | Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres |
| Why was the Chartres Cathedral built? | After a fire burned the original down, the holy relic of Mary survived. Thus, it was believed that Mary wanted a new church. |
| Where is the Chartres Cathedral originally located? | Northern France |
| The Chartres Cathedral was considered the first . . . | High Gothic Building |
| What are rose windows? | Decorated circular windows. |
| What does the rose window represent? | It symbolizes the coming together of many parts to make a whole. |
| The theme of the south rose window at Chatres is the. . . | Glorification of Christ |
| What is the rose window's diameter? | 34 Feet |
| What are lancet windows? | Slender, pointed windows |
| How many lancet windows does the Chartres cathedral have? | Five |
| The south rose window at Chartres was financed by the .... | Dreux Bretagne family |
| Jar with Dragon is a good example of _________ from __________ | Porcelain, Jingdezhen |
| Jar with Dragon depicts a . . . | powerful dragon in the sky. |
| What is kirtimukha? | Face of glory |
| The dragon in Jar with Dragon would represent . . | the ascendency of the Ming rulers |
| The overall patterns and decoration on the Jar with Dragon reflect the influence of . . . | Daoism |
| ________ ceramics were first exported in large quantities during the ____ dynasty. | Chinese, Song |
| What did british potters use to produce porcelain? | Animal bones |
| What is vaudeville also called? | Variety |
| What was metropolis? | A vision of class conflict within a future society. |
| The ____________ in Metropolis enjoy lives of ______ and _______ | Aristocrats, ease, comfort |
| Metropolis was meant as a _________ about __________ and its ability to ________ those wielding that control. | Warning, power, corrupt |
| Who made Metropolis? | Fritz Lang |
| Metropolis costed more than . . . | $1,000,000 USD |
| How long was Metropolis in meters (of film footage)? | 4,910 |
| What are intertitle cards? | Cards of text inserted in films. |
| Lang had asked his friend _________ ________ to create a custom orchestral score for his silent movie. | Gottfried Huppertz |
| The time period during which the film is being shot is called _________ | Production |
| What is Pre-production? | The preparations that lead up to the film shoot. |
| What is Post-production? | When the filming is completed. |
| What is the Dies irae? | An ancient Catholic funeral chant. |
| Leitmotifs are usually played when . . | While the character associated with it is on screen. |
| What is a fermata? | It sustains or holds the final chord. |
| The track "Machines" contains ___ cues. | 2 |
| What are tremolos? | A technique to create a "trembling" effect, used by playing the same note very fast multiple times |
| In the track "Machines", what sounds usher in the second cue? | "Steam whistle" sounds |
| What are "steam whistles"? (In the track "Machines") | A slow, repetitive tune that mimics the weary workers. |
| What was the "morodernized" version of Metropolis? | An altered version of the original Metropolis made by Giorgio Moroder. |
| Several rock and pop musicians including Freddie Mercury and Pat Benatar took part to turn Metropolis into a . . . | "Rock and roll musical" |
| __% of theaters had no orchestra at all. | 98 |
| 2001: Space odyssey was directed by . . | Stanley Kubrick |
| Who and what inspired Stanley Kubrick to make 2001: A Space Odyssey? | Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel" |
| HAL sings what song while shutting off life-support for the human passengers in 2001: A Space Odyssey? | Daisy |
| In 2001: A Space Odyssey, what was the spacecraft powered by? | The HAL 9000 computer |
| In 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronauts ___________ and _________ are piloting a mission to ____________ | David Bowman, Frank Poole, Jupiter |
| What did Alex North do? | He composed a 50-minute long music track for 2001, but his score got rejected. |
| ET: The Extra-Terrestrial blended which three genres? | Science fiction, adventure, and children's film |
| ET: The Extra-Terrestrial is a simple story about. . . | love and friendship |
| Who was the director and producer of ET: The Extra-Terrestrial? | Steven Spielberg |
| Reminder! | Read page 46-47 in the Fine Arts study packet for the summary of ET: The Extra-Terrestrial! |
| Part of E.T.'s temp track consisted of . . . | the Romantic Symphony by Howard Hanson |
| What is the celesta? | A bell-like keyboard |
| The most powerful device within Williams's score for ET is his use of . . . | leitmotifs |
| Who was creator of the score for E.T. | John Williams |
| What is a glissando? | a continuous slide upward or downward between two notes. |
| The romantic era of music one that is based on _______ rather than _______ | harmonies, melodies |
| What is a tritone? | An interval made up of two notes that are three whole steps apart or six half steps.(it is also mostly used in jazz) |
| Reminder! | Read page 50-51 in the Fine Arts study packet for another section of the summary of ET: The Extra-Terrestrial |
| Bernard _________'s score was nominated for an ______ | Herrmann, Oscar |
| What is "bug-eyed monsters" (BEMs)? | A stereotypical portrayal of alien visitors. |
| What is one score Bernard Herrmann wrote? | The day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
| What is a polychord? | A term for two distant diatonic harmonies performed at the same time. |
| What is a cymbal roll? | When each cymbal is played like a drum. |
| What is minimalism in music? | It takes a small amount of material and maximizes its musical potential |
| What is an ostinato in music? | a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm. |
| Check the music sources listening guides for a better understanding of the tracks. ------> | docs.google.com/document/d/1czoYZ0rBKcmQNit1k9uhJ09cGRxb2WAPIg-CeXrvuZM/edit?usp=sharing |
| Who composed the score for Forbidden Planet? | Bebe & Louis Barron |
| "Electronic tonalities" are . . | "dense clusters of glissandi, roaring, humming, and grinding." |
| Who wrote the score for "Creation of TRON"? | Wendy Carlos |
| What is non-diegetic music? | Music characters in the movie cannot hear. |
| What is a celesta? | It is a small piano to enhance a melody line played by another instrument or section. |
| What is a Lydian mode? | A motif to suit an other worldly character. Usually a major scale with a raised fourth. |
| What are "main titles"? | A cinematic term for a cue that accompanies a movie's opening credits. |
| What are "end titles"? | A cue for closing credits. |
| What is multi-tracking? | Layering various recordings. |
| What is musique concrète? | Techniques such as playing recordings backwards. |
| The first analog synthesizer came on the market in ____ | 1964 |
| Compasses were invented in . . . | China |
| Compasses had become the principal instrument by the _________ century. | fourteenth. |
| In the early fifteenth century, society saw the rise of the . . . . | full-rigged ship |
| How many masts and sails did the full-rigged ship have? | 3 masts and 5~6 square sails |
| With the introduction of the full-rigged ship, _____ and ______ trade routes were established. | Faster, cheaper |
| By the end of the __________ century, many notable figures like __________________ had redrawn the world map. | Fifteenth, Christopher columbus. |
| Who were the earliest "printers"? | Sumerians |
| Which group invented paper? | The Chinese |
| What was the world's first mass-produced book called? | Nung Shu |
| How do harpists create a glissando effect? | By strumming up or down on the strings |
| What is a woodcut? | A design carved directly into a wooden block with chisels. |
| The artwork Buxheim St. Christopher was made with . . . | Hand-colored woodcut. |
| What is engraving? | Embellishing metal surfaces with incised pictures. |
| What is a burin? | A steel shaft with a diamond-shaped tip. (Used to cut lines into a metal plate of copper or zinc.) |
| Where was Alberecht Dürer born? | Nuremberg. |
| Who painted Melencolia I? | Alberecht Dürer. |
| Who filed the first lawsuit over artistic copyright? | Alberecht Dürer. |
| What is the "first level" of melancholy? | Artistic melancholy. |
| Melancholy was linked to . . . | Creative genius |
| What is a stipple engraving? | Designs made by a series of small dots engraved on the metal surface of the matrix. |
| What is a lunette? | A semi-circular wood panel |
| Who created the artwork "The Annunciation"? | Fra Filippo Lippi |
| What does "The Annunciation" depict? | The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary |
| What is the exuberant, expressie style associated with the seventeenth century called? | Baroque. |
| Who was Artemisia Gentileschi? | A successful and extremely talented female artist in a society dominated by men. |
| How would you described Artemisia Gentileschi's art style? | Realistic, lush, naturalistic. |
| Gentileschi was famed for painting . . . | heroization of women. |
| Strong use of contrasting light and dark in a painting's palette is called . . . | tenebrism. |
| Where was cristallo glass developed? | Venice. |
| Who discovered the process for making cristallo? | Angelo Barovier. |
| Before cristallo glass was invented, glass was which two colors? | Yellow or greenish |
| What four key ingredients are needed for producing cristallo glass? | Former, flux, stabilizer, and decolorizer. |
| Why was the Behaim Beaker commissioned? | To celebrate the union of Michael IV Behaim and Katharina Locherin. |
| The Behaim Beaker was a great example of . . . | Cristallo glass. |
| What is disegno? | The Renaissance-era fashion for pictorial charm in visual design. |
| Who were the commissioners of the Benin bronze plaques? | Oba Esigie and Oba Orhogbua |
| What is a relief plaque? | A form of interior decoration. |
| What is high relief? | When the figures protrude out much farther from the background in a relief plaque. |
| What is low relief? | When the figures protrude only slightly from the background in a relief plaque. |
| Where does the Benin Plaque come from? | Benin City, a major city state in West Africa. |
| What was Melencolia I supposed to be? | A spiritual self-portrait of Dürer. |
| What was Fra Lippi's "The Annunciation" for? | It was for decorating the Palazzo Medici. |
| Where was the Palazzo Medici located? | Florence, in the northern hills of Italy. |
| "The Annunciation" highlighted . . . | Architecture of the garden and linear perspective. |
| Realism in painting was made possible by . . . | oil being used on canvases. |
| Artesimia Gentileschi used what type of paint? | Oil |
| Over time, _________ glass makers developed practices for ______ their glass objects. | Venetian, decorating |
| The decoration on the beaker's cristallo grade transparent glass is notably . . . | ornamental. |
| The Benin bronze plaques are a group of more than ____ reliefs. | 850 |
| How large was the Kingdom of Benin? | New England. |
| What is the Oba in the Kingdom of Benin? | The ruler. |
| What do the pictorial reliefs of the Benin bronze plaques depict? | Courtiers, warriors, and animals. |
| Why were the Benin bronze plaques made? | To decorate the halls of the king's palace in Benin City. |
| The ____ ratio of head to body reflects a fundamental principle of ___________ art and cosmology. (In Benin bronze plaques) | 1:4, West African |
| What does the 1:4 head to body ratio in the Benin bronze plaques reflect? | That one's destiny resides in the head. |
| What is a B-movie? | A type of low-budget commercial motion picture |
| Who was the director of Star Wars? | George Lucas. |
| The "Main Title / Luke's Theme" leitmotif resembles the . . . . | "Also sprach Zarathustra (Sunrise)" cue and the "Power motif within "Outer Space". |
| The sizeable amount of music in Star wars can be called . . . | saturation scoring. |
| What is saturation scoring? | It makes a recording sound fuller and more complex. |
| What is a nickname for saturation scoring? | Wall-to-wall music. |
| Who wrote the score for Star Wars? | John Williams. |
| William's score has been ranked as the . . . | Best American film score of all time. |
| What are Dolby equipped theaters? | A surround sound system that creates an immersive soundscape. |
| "Cantina Band" can be described as . . . | jazzy. |
| Portions of the cue "Mad About Me" feature . . . | A walking bass, wah-wah trumpet, and syncopations drawn from ragtime. |
| Which film restored the fortunes of Columbia Pictures? | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) |
| Who directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind? | Steven Spielberg. |
| What does the term "third kind" derive from? | A UFO classification system. |
| What is solfège? | A system where every note of a scale is given its own unique syllable. |
| Who invented solfège hand signals? | John Curwen |
| What are solfège hand signals? | Hand signals to match pitch names. |
| Why did Williams fail to win an Oscar for the Close Encounters score? | He was beaten by his own Oscar for Star Wars instead. |
| What two things does "2815 A.D." (WALL•E) emphasize? | The landscape of the ruined earth and the warmth of WALL•E 's home. |
| Which original song does WALL•E feature? | "Down to Earth" by Peter Gabriel. |
| Who was the director of Inception? | Christopher Nolan. |
| The source music in Inception is most obvious when . . . | we hear "Je ne regrette rien" |
| Who sung "Je ne regrette rien"? | Édith Piaf |
| What is a braaam? | A loud, slow sound, usually used in action trailers. |
| Who composed the score for Dream Is Collapsing? | Hans Zimmer |
| How many suites did Zimmer write? | Four |
| Who created the artwork "Self Portrait in a Straw Hat"? | Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun |
| What is Prussian blue? | The first synthetic blue pigment. |
| When was Prussian blue invented? | In 1704 |
| Which style did Vigée-Lebrun work in? | Rococo |
| How can you describe Rococo art? | Light and elegant. |
| The pose of the picture "Self Portrait in a Straw Hat" directly references . . . | Portrait of Susanna Luden |
| Who painted The Bridge at Argenteuil? | Claude Monet |
| Monet's focus in painting the Argenteuil bridge was . . . | To capture the brilliance of light reflecting off water on a summer day. |
| Who painted View from the Window at Le Gras? | Nicéphore Niépce |
| Nicéphore Niépce successfully used what to create a copy of an engraving on paper? | Sunlight |
| What is the daguerreotype? | The world's first photographic process. |
| Which two people teamed up to make the daguerreotype? | Niépce and Louis Daguerre |
| Who was the most photographed person in the 19th century? | Fredrick Douglass |
| What is American photographer Berenice Abbot famous for? | Her documentation of the rapidly industrializing New York City. |
| Who photographed Benn Station, Interior? | Berenice Abbott. |
| How did Berenice Abbot mute and soften the colors of her photograph, Benn Station, Interior? | By using a long exposure time. |
| During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, what was the most prominent mode of portrait taking? | Silhouettes. |
| What was the physiognotrace? | A contraption that copied a sitter's traced profile to create a silhouette. |
| Who was Moses Williams? | An enslaved mixed-race black man who operated a physiognotrace. |
| Where did Moses Williams operate? | The Long Room of Peale's Museum in Philadelphia |
| Who photographed "The Horse in Motion"? | Eadweard Muybridge |
| Who commissioned Eadward Muybridge? | Leland Stanford |
| How many images of a horse was arranged to illustrate the consecutive phases of the horse's movement? | 12 |
| Who is hailed as the "father of video art"? | Nam June Paik |
| Who was the first artist to show abstract forms of art on a television? | Nam June Paik |
| Who created the sculpture Velvet White? | John Chamberlain |
| What is the purpose of Velvet White? | To record the violence of America's car crashes. |
| What is Velvet White made of? | Crushed automobile metal. |
| What is Abstract Expressionism? | A type of abstract art, usually oil on canvas, characterized by gestural brushstrrokes. |
| What is an apreggio? | A chord whose individual pitches are played in succession rather than simultaneously. |
| What is avant-garde? | Modern, forward-looking artists who break with convention to create innovated modes of expression. |
| What is Baroque? | A seventeenth-century European art style. |
| What is a B-movie? | A low-budget commercial film. |
| What would Baroque be described as? | Dynamic, and a lot of excess, sinuous lines, pastel colors, and gilt furniture. |
| What is bone china? | A kind of British porcelain imitating the Chinese original. |
| What is a canvas? | A surface for oil painting, usually made from some kind of yarn. |
| What is a colonnade? | A straight row of columns supporting a roof. |
| What are complementary colors? | Colors that are opposite one another on a color wheel. |
| What is a compilation score? | A film score assembled from pre-existing music. |
| What is another word for compilation score? | Adapted score. |
| The first perfectly clear glass was. . . | Cristallo glass |
| What is a cue? | A musical passage designed to support a particular portion of a film. |
| What is a cue sheet? | A detailed plan for music during a film. |
| What is a cymbal roll? | A technique of sustaining a cymbal's sound. |
| How is the cymbal roll performed? | By hammering a cymbal with beaters or drumsticks (not the ice cream) |
| What is diegetic music? | Music that both the audience and characters can hear. |
| What is a drone in music? | A long, sustained pitch. |
| What is en plein air? | A term meaning to paint outdoors. |
| What language does en plein air come from? | French |
| What is encaustic? | A technique wherein an artist mixes colored pigments with wax. |
| What is Enlightenment? | A European movement emphasizing reason and individualism over tradition. |
| What are Fayum portraits also known as? | "Mummy portraits" |
| What does fermata look like? (describe it) | 𝄐 |
| What is film noir? | A genre of film that contains pessimistic storylines. |
| What is a flying buttress? | An arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier in order to convey its lateral thrust into the ground. |
| Where were flying buttresses first used? | At the Cathedral of Notre-Dame |
| Who was Giorgio Vasari? | An important Reinaissance era artist and biographer |
| What are glaziers? | Glassworkers who fit glass pieces into windows and doors. |
| What is a horizon line? | It marks the landscape's horizon. |
| What does impasto mean? | To knead or to paste |
| What does impasto refer to? | The technique of thickly laying paint onto the canvas so it stands out. |
| Which language does the word impasto come from? | Italian |
| What is an intertitle? | A short intersertion of typed text, usually explains the situation or dialogue in a silent film |
| What is kaolin clay? | A special clay used to make fine porcelain. |
| What is kaolin clay known for? | It's purity, whiteness, translucency, and strength. |
| What is a leitmotif? | A melodic fragment representing a particular person, object, or idea. |
| What is locked cut? | The version of the film that contains the final edits of the shots. |
| What is added in the locked cut? | Music, sound effects, and special effects. |
| What is another word for locked cut? | Fine cut |
| What is lost-wax casting? | A method of making metal sculpture using a clay core and wax coating placed in a mold |
| What is a lunette? | A semicircular shape. |
| What are lunettes usually describing? | Panel paintings, arched windows, and domed ceilings. |
| What is a major tritone progression? | A harmonic pattern in which a major triad is followed by a second major triad, and the root pitch of which is a tritone away from the initial triad's root (THIS IS MAKING ME DIZZY) |
| What is a matrix? | A slab of wood or metal that is carved with a design, rolled in ink, and transferred to another surface to make multiple copies of the same image. |
| What is a metronome? | A device to maintain a steady tempo (PLS GOOGLE IT) |
| What is minimalism? | A style of music that uses very amounts of material in simple and repetitive ways. |
| What is multi-tracking? | The process of taking separate recordings and assembling them to play together. |
| Mummification is . . . | The process of embalming and wrapping a body for preservation. |
| What is musique concréte? | A label for music produced by assembling the recordings of "real world" sounds. |
| What is a negative in photography? | An image on transparent glass or plastic film where colors are reversed to make a positive on paper. |
| What is an oculus? | The circular opening at the top of the dome. |
| What is oil paint made up of? | Ground pigment and drying oil. |
| What is an ondes martenot? | An electronic instrument resembling a theremin but played with a keyboard. |
| What is a theremin? | An electronic instrument controlled without physical contact. |
| What was the world's fist electronic instrument? | The theremin. |
| What is orchestration? | The process of allocating the pitches of a score's melodies and harmonies to particular instruments (POINTING AT YOU CELESTYNA) |
| What are orthogonals? | The diagonal lines drawn from the edges of the picture to the vanishing line (In linear perspective) |
| What is a pantograph? | An instrument for copying a drawing at a different scale. |
| What is a pastel? | A type of chalk (usually applied on textured paper) |
| What are pediments? | Gables (usually triangular) placed above the horizontal lintel of a doorframe. |
| What is performance art? | Artwork created through actions. |
| What is phrenology? | Measuring bumps on a skull to predict a person's traits |
| What is a polychord? | A chord containing two distinct diatonic harmonies simultaneously. |
| What is porcelain? | A ceramic material made from heated clay. |
| The temperature range required to turn clay into porcelain is . . . | between 2,200 and 2,600 °F |
| What is a portico? | A porch leading to the entrance of a building with a roof structure over a walkway. (google it) |
| What is positive in photography? | An image made from a negative (The tones are re-reversed and corrected) |
| What is Precisionism? | It celebrated the American landscape such as skyscrapers, bridges, and factories. |
| What is ragtime? | A musical style that features many rhythmic patterns against a steady accompainment |
| What is revetment in architecture? | A facing of impact resistant material that covers the structure. |
| What is a rotunda? | A building with a circular ground plan. (Usually covered by a dome) |
| What is a music sample? | A digital recording of a sound that gets manipulated electronically. |
| What is saturation scoring? | A film score that occurs continuously throughout the movie. |
| What is a segue? | To proceed from the end of one musical section to another with no pause in between. |
| How do you pronounce segue? | Segway |
| What are examples of solfège? | (do - re - mi - fa - sol - la - ti) |
| What is stipple engraving? | A design made by. a series of small dots engraved on a metal surface |
| What is a synth pad? | A long, sustained note or chord produced by a synthesizer. |
| What is a synthesizer? | A keyboard that generates sound electronically |
| A temp track is . . . | a piece of music that is used during the editing phase. |
| Tenebrism is . . | a strong use of contrasting light and dark in a painting. |
| What is a tone poem? | A single-movement programmatic work for orchestra. |
| What is a tremolo? | A rapid repetition of a pitch or 2 pitches that creates a trembling effect |
| What is a vanishing point? | The center of the horizon line |
| What is a vaudeville? | A stage presentation consisting of many entertainers demonstrating skills (unrelated to music). |
| What is a vibrato? | A vibrating sound used to add intensity to the note and make it more elegant |
| What is a wah wah trumpet? | A method of playing the trumpet by blocking and unblocking the bell with a hand or mute. |
| What is a walking bass? | A bass line that moves in stepwise motion up or down. |
| What is the wet-plate process? | It allows unlimited paper prints (positive) to be made from a single exposure (negative, which is the product) |
| Which genre of art was the wet-plate process used in? | Photography. |
| What is a wordless choir? | A tone created by a chorus using humming/vowel sounds |
| Who designed the zoopraxiscope? | Eadweard Muybridge. |
| What does the zoopraxiscope do? | It projects an illusion of a continuously moving picture. |
| What does a conductors cue do? | It tells an orchestra section when to play. (the conductor will probably forget to cue you 9 times out of 10) |
| Which statement BEST describes the significance of the artwork The Horse in Motion, “Sallie Gardner” by Eadweard Muybridge, c. 1878? | It was a series of photographs that proved for the first time that a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at one point. |
| What artistic movement is Claude Monet’s The Bridge at Argenteuil MOST closely associated with? | Impressionism |
| In Fra Filippo Lippi’s The Annunciation, who are the primary figures depicted? | The Angel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary |
| Why is Nam June Paik’s Magnet TV significant in the history of art? | It played a pioneering role in introducing electronic art and pushing the boundaries of video art. |
| The overall patterns and decoration reflect the influence of _______, a philosophy traditionally credited to the elusive Chinese saga. | Daoism |
| Sound is described as what? | wave of energy |
| What is the broadest definition of music? | sound organized in time |
| A chord is three or more _____ sounding simultaneously. | pitches |
| Square is to shape as cube is to _____. | form |
| What is another name for color? | hue |
| Who is known for writing The Lives of the Artists? | Giorgio Vasari |
| What does the term “composition” in art refer to? | The organization of the elements of art |
| The painting technique where an artist mixes colored pigments with wax is called _____. | encaustic |
| Which dynasty in China was a period of cultural restoration? | Ming dynasty |
| A central figure in the South Rose Window of Chartres Cathedral is _____. | Christ |
| What was the Romans’ MOST significant technological innovation? | concrete |
| What is Vaudeville also referred to as? | Variety |
| What is described as a memorable short melody associated with a primary character or situation in a story? | leitmotif |
| Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was inspired by Arthur C. Clark’s short story “________”. | The Sentinel |
| What type of sounds accompany the tools used by humans in Forbidden Planet? | noisy sounds that are extensions of the equipment |
| A tritone is an interval made up of two notes that are three _____ apart. | whole steps |
| What is the customary cue designation for the music performed during the closing credits? | end titles |
| Which of the following was NOT a common performance in Vaudeville entertainment? | ice-skating |
| What is the setting for the story of TRON? | a computer’s cyberspace |
| The first cue in “Maschinen” includes which musical technique? | tremolos |
| Steven _______ directed and produced E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. | Spielberg |
| In Forbidden Planet, how can Robby the Robot’s leitmotifs be BEST described? | discrete plinks and plops, short, reverberated impulses with uniform echo rhythms |
| The film TRON was known for combining live-action filming, _____, and computer-generated imagery (CGI). | Hand-drawn animation |
| When did Wendy Carlos have the breakthrough for her “Anthem” theme? | right before she was about to sleep |
| What tool had an immense impact on early navigation and exploration? | magnetic compass |
| The development of ______ in Venice, a clear glass that resembled “rock crystals,” advanced glassmaking in the middle of the fifteenth century. | cristallo glass |
| The artist Artemisia Gentileschi was famous for painting women of strength, passion, and ________. | vulnerability |
| Prior to the rise of the Internet, no technology has done more for the spread and democratization of knowledge than the ____________. | printing press |
| The “Main Title” theme from Star Wars is also known as ______’s Theme. | Luke |
| The movie for the “first” Star Wars movie was played by the ________. | London Symphony Orchestra |
| What year did Doc Brown accidentally travel to in Back to the Future? | 1885 |
| In Wall*E, what is the lone living creature in the desolate landscape? | a cockroach |
| Complete the quote by Doc: “your future is whatever you______!” | make it |
| Who referred to photography as an “inconceivable wonder?” | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| What is the literal translation of “camera obscura?” | dark chamber |
| What replaced the daguerreotype by the eve of the American Civil War? | wet-plate process |
| The artistic movement _______ emerged in 1872, the same year Eadweard Muybridge began his photographic experiments on animal locomotion. | Impressionism |
| What was the primary purpose of Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope? | to project moving images continuously |
| What did Frederick Douglass identify as the “most democratic” medium? | photography |
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