Humanities Unit 2
Which statements describe the aria "Dovo sono" from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Elegant melody, rhythm clearly marks the sung phrases, expresses emotions vividly
Which philosopher viewed reality as a process that operated on the principle of the dialectic-thesis, antithesis, and synthesis?
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The etching of Rome's Pantheon was created by ________________
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
In the book __________________'s Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes Human behavior
Gulliver
Which answers appropriately describe the classical style of the opening of the First Movement of Mozart's Serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik?
Harmony that supports the melody and never obscures it, Obvious cadences in which the music clearly stops, melody that is clear to understand and easy to sing
Which aspects can be varied in a theme and variations composition in Classical music?
Harmony, rhythm, melody
Which statement is true of Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
He argued that the natural inquisitiveness of children should be cultivated
Neoclassicism was inspired and fueled by the archaeological excavations of
Herculaneum and Pompeii
Neoclassicism was inspired and fueled by the archaeological excavations of ______________
Herculaneum and Pompeii
In what were the Transcendentalists interested?
Hinduism and Buddhism, and the belief in the oneness of spirit and nature
Which of the following statements about Voltaire are true?
His writings attacked bigotry and injustice, he was educated by jesuits
The ____________ River School was a group of American landscape painters who worked in the 1830's and 1840's
Hudson
Immanuel Kant's philosophy laid the basis for the belief that reality consists of the mind's forms of perception and understanding, or transcendental _____________
Idealism
To which of the following sources in the classical culture of antiquity can Classical music of the late Eighteenth Century be compared?
-Clear geometric forms (circles, squares) in building designs -In architecture, rows of identical columns -Three-part form: left-middle-right in architecture, beginning-middle-end in music
Which of the following statements are true about music during the classical era?
-Order and formality were emphasized over spontaneity and improvisation -Composers sought the patronage of wealthy aristocrats, at whose courts they often served
The German philosopher who defined "life-will" as an impersonal force without inherent meaning or design was
Arthur Schopenhauer
The German philosopher who defined "life-will" as an impersonal force without inherent meaning or design was ______________
Arthur Schopenhauer
Olaudah Equiano was born in the West African kingdom of
Benin
Kidnapped from Senegal, Phillis Wheatley was a slave in __________
Boston, MA
Thomas Jefferson wrote that slavery was a "____________ Evil"
Necessary
Jacques-Louis David's painting - The Death of Socrates is best described as __________________ in style
Neoclassical
American Transcendentalism emerged out of ___________
New England
Why is Couperin's "Le Croc-en-jambe" from Ordre No. 22 classified as Rococo period music?
Ornamented melodic elements, thin timbre of the harpsichord
________ declared that poets were the "unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sainte-Genevieve (renamed the "Pantheon" was inspired by ______
St. Peter's in Rome, St. Paul's in London, the Roman Pantheon
Which of the following groups of instruments made up early symphony orchestras?
Strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion
In the eighteenth century the primary product for which Europeans enslaved Africans was ______________
Sugar
Which industry was transformed first in the Industrial Revolution?
Textile Manufacturing
Which are characteristics of the paintings of Antoine Watteau?
The fleeting nature of love and the pursuit of pleasure
Rococo sculpture is characterized by
intimacy and spontaneity
Compared to Greuze's genre paintings, Chardin's paintings were
less sentimental and moralizing
Compared to the Baroque era, Rococo music was ____________
lighter and more melodic
Charles Darwin used the term "_________ selection" to describe the process by which evolution operates to favor traits that aid the survival of species
natural
Many romantics embraced ______________, the idea that the divine spirit pervades all things in the universe
pantheism
Jean-Antoine Houdon sculpted
portrait busts and life-sized sculptures
Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun painted primarily
portraits of women
Neoclassicism differed from earlier revivals of classical ideals because of ____________
scientific studies of ancient ruins
Early orchestras were _______ than those of today
smaller
The ____________ is a composition for an unaccompanied keyboard instrument, or for another instrument with keyboard accompaniment
sonata
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot called his late paintings ____________, or remembrances.
souvenirs
The instrument group that forms the nucleus of an orchestra is the _________
strings
Chinese landscape paintings typically are:
sweeping views, executed in monochrome ink
Charles Darwin's theories were developed in part because of his study of fossils on __________
the Galapagos Islands
The Arch of Triumph was inspired by the _____________
Arch of Titus
What is the other name for the Rococo style?
Galant
Who was the author of the History of Ancient Art, published in 1764?
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Which artist wrote "the sky is the source of light in nature and governs everything?"
John Constable
Which poet proclaimed that "Beauty and truth are one"?
John Keats
In France, the lower and middle classes were known as the ______ estate
Third
The architect for the Rotunda, University of Virginia was ____________
Thomas Jefferson
_______________ proclaimed that the American Revolution had done more to enlighten the world and promote freedom than any other event
Thomas Paine
True or False: Franz Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94 is known as the Surprise Symphony because of an unexpected chord.
True
True or False: Leaders of the American Revolution adopted Roman phrases and symbols to demonstrate their commitment to liberty and equality
True
True or False: Over 100,00 people paid to see this painting by Frederic Church
True
Ralph Waldo Emerson was ordained as a ____________ minister
Unitarian
Henry David Thoreau's most famous book was based on the 26 months he spent living near
Walden Pond
In the eighteenth century, ____________ music was made distinct from popular or folk music
classical
In Hegel's thought, _________ consists of a thesis, which confronts its antithesis, resulting in a synthesis
dialectic
Walt Whitman wrote primarily in _________ verse
free
In addition to its broader meaning, classical music refers to music composed between approximately _______
1760 and 1820
Mozart wrote over ___________ musical compositions
650
Jonathan Swift wrote __________
A Modest Proposal, Gulliver's Travels
Which facts are true about taxation in pre-revolutionary France?
All taxes were paid by the lower and middle class, Almost four-fifth of the average peasant's income was paid in taxes
European Rococo design was most influenced by the art and design of ____________
China
Arrange the sequence of events for the American Revolution from first to last:
Declaration of independence, thirteen colonies declare,
Identify any musical element creatively used by Haydn to create a memorable aesthetic effect:
Dynamics- On the same beat, a group of tones are suddenly and unexpectedly played loudly Rhythm- There is a strong accent on a usually unaccented beat
In Critique of Practical Reason, Immanuel Kant proved that reason had little to do with morality
False
True or False: Mozart ignored classical symphonic form in his compositions
False, Mozart adhered to classical symphonic form, with exposition, development, and recapitulation
This quilt is an example of American _________________ art, made by artists who were not technically school, but who worked communally within a craft tradition
Folk
In Candide, Voltaire uses some of the following satirical techniques
Irony, understatement, overstatement
How does Neoclassical architecture compare to earlier Classical revivals?
It is austere, It is geometric
What role did Neoclassical architecture have in Napoleon's France?
It was the vehicle for French imperialism
The Swing was painted by
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Who wrote: "God makes all things good.... man meddles with them and they become evil."?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What were some of the social effects of early industrialization?
Long working hours under dangerous conditions, increased mass production and consumption of goods
By 1799, _________ began to break from some of the formal aspects of classical music, beginning to add tension and force to his compositions
Ludwig Van Beethoven
_________ poetry is marked by individual or personal emotin
Lyric
The voyage on which slaves were transported between Africa and America was called the ____________
Middle Passage
Match the general characteristics of landscape painting with its era and location
Renaissance: A visual record of a specific time and place French seventeenth century: An ideal landscape, and the stage for biblical or mythological subjects Dutch seventeenth century: Empirically precise views of the physical world Romantic: Landscape as a vehicle of expression of an artists' emotions
The term __________ style derives from rocaille, the French word for ornate rock or shellwork that ornamented gardens or grottoes
Rococo
What style of eighteenth-century visual art earned the disapproval of many philosophes prompting Denis Diderot to demand an art that made "virtue attractive and vice odious"?
Rococo
Voltaire was fascinated by ________________, for its blend of European and Asian culture
Russia
________ introduced indignant protest through humor and was used to point out the contradictions between Enlightenment ideals and reality
Satire
______________ Darwinism attempted to justify the alleged superiority of groups, nations, and races using the ideas of natural selection
Social
Which of the following is true about the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
The Industrial Revolution increased the population of cities, and transformed the West away from an agrarian society.
Which of the following elements of The Oath of the Horatii mark it as neoclassical in style?
The archaeological correctness of elements such as clothing and helmets, the figures stand on a horizontal line of the picture plane, the use of hard contours and somber colors
Which resulted within a few years from the end of the French Revolution?
The declaration of the rights of woman and citizen, and the execution of tens of thousands of people
Aspects of Chinese society that were the targets of Chinese satirists included _______________
The exam system of China's civil service, female footbinding
What is so surprising about Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major, known as the "Surprise" Symphony?
The sudden fortissimo at the end
The most mystical of the major British Romantic poets was
William Blake
Who described poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" which originate "from emotion recollected in tranquility"?
William Woodsworth
The following are examples of traditional Native American art:
Woodcarving, pottery
Bacchante
a female attendant or devotee of Dionysus
Satyr
a semibestial woodland creature symbolic of Dionysus
Francois Couperin's The Art of Playing the Clavecin includes instructions for playing musical ornaments known as __________________
agrements
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is an example of _______________
an opera buffa
Visual exaggeration of peculiarities or defects is known as ____________
caricature
Jean-Baptiste Greuze's paintings represent _______________
the simple virtues of everyday life
J.M.W. Turner's "Snowstorm" painting is an expression of _______
the sublime
In China, landscape paintings overtook figure paintings in popularity by the ________ century
thirteenth
