Humanities Unit 4 – Flashcards
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What kind of music was the most important music of the Classical period?
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Sonata
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How many movements did the sonata of the Classical period have?
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4
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What is the correct time order of these musical periods?
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Baroque, pre-Classical, Classical
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Which composer changed the style of the Italian opera in which the music was more important than the drama or story?
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christoph willibald gluck
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Which of these best describes the Classical period of music?
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a style of music
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Who wrote "Requiem"?
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Mozart
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Which of these statements is true?
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There were few differences between opera of the Baroque period and the Classical period.
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Which two famous composers from the Baroque period were still successful during the pre-Classical period?
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Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel
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What was the most prominent musical style of the Baroque period?
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Polyphony
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Which composer is generally considered to be the "father of the piano"?
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Muzio Clementi
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How were many of the operas in the Classical period performed?
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for the general public in the common language of the people.
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Who served as the music director for the Austrian royal court for thirty-six years and supposedly was on unfriendly terms with Mozart?
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antonio Salieri
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What instrument replaced the harpsichord as the most dominant instrument of the Classical period?
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Piano
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Who was probably the first music composer to make a living without the help of rich patrons or religious organizations?
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Beethoven
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Which of these terms is a synonym for the pre-Classical period of music?
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Rococo
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What was the most prominent musical style of the Classical period?
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Homophony
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Which of these statements is true?
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The popularity of the opera remained at a high level during the Romantic period.
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Which of these statements is false?
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The dominant music style of the Romantic period was choral music.
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Which of these was not an element of an operetta?
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Operettas actually used songs instead of spoken dialogue.
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Who wrote Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker?
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Tchaikovsky
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Which country was the center of opera from the late 1700s into most of the 1800s?
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France
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What is nationalism?
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A love for one's country
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Who was the leading composer of waltzes during the Romantic period?
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Johann Strauss, Jr.
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Which of these is an accurate description of an Italian opera during the Romantic period?
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The story of this opera style was more important than the music.
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Which instrument is most closely connected to Clara Schumann?
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Piano
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Which Polish composer and performer was one of the leading pianists of the Romantic period?
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Chopin
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What was the leading style of opera in Europe until the mid 1800s?
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Italian
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What type of piano composition was played between the acts of an opera?
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Intermezzo
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Which composer brought together the elements of performance, music, design, and drama to the German opera?
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Wagner
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Who composed the music for the famous opera Porgy and Bess and the famous orchestral piece Rhapsody in Blue?
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Gershwin
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Who was the leading composer of experimental music in the 1900s?
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Cage
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What is neoclassicism?
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Music that features a combination of the elements of earlier music with the modern styles of music
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Who was the creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music?
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Schoenberg
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Igor Stravinsky composed an opera that was similar to the operas written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. What style of music did he use?
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Neoclassicism
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Who were considered to be the two leading composers of the 1900s?
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Stravinsky & Schoenberg
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What style of music during the Modern period was a continuation of the previous period of music?
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Romantic Period
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Who was a leading composer of the impressionism style of music?
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Debussy
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What is considered by many to be the only art form that originated in America?
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Jazz
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Composers of which style of music wrote music for traditional instruments but used them in unusual ways?
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Experimental
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Which style of music used a synthesizer to create new compositions?
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Electronic
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Who was Karlheinz Stockhausen?
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A leader in the creation of electronic music
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What is atonal music?
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Music that has no central key and has a harsh non-harmonious tone
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The origin of which type of popular music style can be traced to the field hollers, spirituals, and work songs of African Americans?
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Blues
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During the Renaissance, which country continued to be interested in theater?
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Italy
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What is the genre of The Octoroon?
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Melodrama
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Which civilization originated the custom of using the symbolic tragedy/comedy masks?
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Greek
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What is a theatron?
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Theatre
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Downstage
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The front part of the stage nearest the audience
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Who wrote Le Femmes Savantes?
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Molière
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Ludovico Ariosto was known for writing which genre of plays?
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Comedy
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Early theater had its beginnings in which civilization?
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Greek
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Who supported copyright legislation?
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Dion Boucicault
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How many actors did early Greek theater usually have?
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3
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Who banned theater productions in England?
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Cromwell
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Who wrote The Spanish Tragedy?
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Kyd
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Who wrote Poetics?
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Aristotle
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Melodrama
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plots centered on a moralist conflict in which the main character were archtypes of good vs evil
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Under what pen name did François-Marie Arouet write?
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Voltaire
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Which acting company was Shakespeare connected with?
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Lord Chamberlain's Men
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Distressing
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Aging or roughening the appearance of a costume
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Which of these statements is true?
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Stage fighting should be done under the guidance of professional instructors.
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Which of these is one element of sound in a theatrical production?
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Pitch
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Props
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Stage Productions
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Places
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A call to cast and crew to take their place in readiness for the curtain to rise and the play to begin
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Ad-lib
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A technique in which actors spontaneously make up lines of dialogue
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Which term is defined as a written story used in theater?
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Script
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The collaborative efforts of artists in the theater date back to which civilization?
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Greek
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Which of these statements is true?
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The use of different lighting effects can enhance the mood of a play.
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What was one of the largest and most frequented theaters in London?
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Globe
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Thespian
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Actor
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which statement is true?
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shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, histories, and poetry
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Where was William Shakespeare born?
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Stratford-upon-Avon
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Director
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An individual who enhances a script by initiating the creative flow and direction of a stage play production
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Which of these is a factor that all designers take into consideration during the production of a play?
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Budget
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Which of these is true of the Bernoulli effect?
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it involves pushing air through the vocal cords
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Gioacchino Rossini is known for writing which opera?
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Tell
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Aria
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The solo vocal performance of a song
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Which of these terms refers to music productions that used dialogue and instrumentals, similar to the opera comique?
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Sinspiel
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A full orchestra is usually composed of how many musicians?
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60
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During which period did opera begin?
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Renaissance
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How many musical compositions did Mozart write?
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Over 600
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Which of these statements is false?
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All Operas contain spoken dialogue.
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What was the first opera?
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Dafne
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Then an Alley is known as the first opera of which kind?
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Rock Opera
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Which of these is important to opera singers?
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They must master the use of diaphragm muscles.
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In which country did opera originate?
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Italy
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Wall fit which genre?
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Rock Opera
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Onomatopoeia is used to imitate which of these?
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Sounds
