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Music Test 1
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/06/2014

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jazz, saxophone, American dance music, instrumental = no singing
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Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul
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Italian, energy and intesity, changes all music to end with the same notes
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Bach B Minor Mass
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acapella (no instruments)
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Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass
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instrumental, “noise”
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Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
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: English, melodies more obvious, love moving vowels, more repetitive, flashier, theatrical, one particular melody at the time
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Handel The Messiah
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Oratorio, Text painting, Baroque Music, English, melodies more obvious, love moving vowels, more repetitive, flashier, theatrical, one particular melody at the time
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Handel The Messiah
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The two Bills of the English Language
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William Tyndale and William Shakespeare – Tyndale wrote 70-80% of most of the bible (most influential translation in English Language) and Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets which completely changed the English language
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The Printing Press changed what?
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? It changed how we think, how we process information, our need of memory!
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Titan – better at what than other Renaissance painters?
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“My colors are better than yours”, understood that color hits the eye before the form – paint faster and more dramatically as a result. Painted still life, portraits, nudes, landscapes and history painting.
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Raphael- of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles, how was he different?
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He painted women more accurately because he understood them. His paintings were the academic model for 300 years later. Surpasses both in portraiture and his depictions of women; his Madonnas are just fabulous.
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Michelangelo, Plato and Jesus?
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Blended Greek thought and Christian theology in everything he did (philosophy and Christian thought)
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Michelangelo was equally important as a...?
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sculptor, painter and architect
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Leonardo – wanted to understand everything with a?
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pencil – drew anatomical parts, didn’t need to know how to build an airplane – if you saw my drawing you would instantly know
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Donatello- taught them all. Why?
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He influenced all of them. He was the first one that started applying perspective – absolute realism.
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Palestrina- how long has his music been performed on a regular basis?
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Annually atleast. Most important musician in Catholicism. His music is always performed during Holy Week since he wrote it.
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The most common form in the US is?
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12 bar blues/ 12 measure blues
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The American contribution to Philosophy is?
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Pragmatism
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What two statements in the PowerPoint relate to jazz music?
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“Fixed ends are eliminated” and “Experimentation is encouraged”
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painted flowers up-close, unique artist in the 20th century also because she was a woman.
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Georgia O’Keefe
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surrealism – paintings looked like a weird dream (ex: painting about Jesus on the cross but the cross doesn’t have anything helping it stand up, Jesus isn’t even being held by the cross – looks like he’s floating) – visual puzzles
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Salvador Dali
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: photography can do things painting can do. It doesn’t have to look like painting- photography has its own voice. (married O’Keefe). Photography should be art too!
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Photography should be art too!
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junk art/found art, used objects that weren’t art by themselves
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Marcel Duchamp
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Louis Armstrong/Charles Parker
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tell the history of jazz. Louis was a singer and an instrumentalist (trumpet) while Charles was only an instrumentalist (saxophone)
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Jazz is unique because of the amount of emphasis on what in performance?
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On Improvisation
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Jazz is unique because it was developed how?
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By instrumentalist – no ties to vocal performance
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texture/swirls (Starry Night), chooses brush strokes
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Van Gogh
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Gauguin
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flat- a flat surface covered with colors and arranged in a certain order
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Cezanne
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Geometry! Everything is treated as a cone, sphere, or other geometric shape.
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Seurat
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Dots! (Anticipated pixels), created images by putting dots
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Picasso
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texture, flat, geomety, and dots
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Kandinsky
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non-representational, abstract
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Duchamp
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junk art
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Stravinsky got everyone’s attention with The Rite of Spring. What was it about the music and dance that was so different?
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The music made people uncomfortable – the orchestra played the whole time. The ballet looked crazy and didn’t possess proper form (feet weren’t pointed)
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What happened during the first performance of The Rite of Spring?
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There was a riot. People started a fist fight and took it out to the streets. The police had to be called.
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Kyrie Eleison
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more like a child beginning for mercy. Music isn’t as intense. Singing is contained.
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Christe Eleison
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music speeds up. Singing becomes louder and higher
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Gloria
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happy music, going really fast, more use of the violin, really hyper and joyful
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Bach was important as an advocate for?
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Equal temperamant
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Bach was equally important as a
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performer, composer and teacher
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Bach, Handel and Palestrina write music that is contrapuntal or polyphonic. What does this mean?
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Contrapuntal means many points of view and polyphonic means many voices/services
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Bach/Handel relationship
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“Handel is the only person I would wish to see before I die, and the only person I would wish to be, were I not Bach.”
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All art is concerned with communication, and music is especially concerned with...
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feelings
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All art is...
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process, productive, and experience
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What does aesthetics mean in this class?
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The science of beauty
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What does the term canon mean in this class?
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Artwork that can be celebrated for at least a century (100 year mark)
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Carvaggio- who was he? What did he do?
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He was a painter that had an incredible use of light, perspective (like theatrical staging)
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Our perspective changes – so the way we view things changes. Paintings now become more realistic (buildings look just like the ones in the painting- use of hole in canvas and mirror), the printing press is invented which changes the way you think etc.
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Renaissance perspective
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