A&H+S Study District

Witches Sabbath

1798 oil on canvas by Francisco Goya during the Romantic Period

Samuel Barber

1910-1981 composer known for his compositions known as Adagio for Strings, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and operas Vanessa which won him a Pulitzer Prize and Antony and Cleopatra which he composed for the opening of a Metropolitan opera at Lincoln Center in New York and his famous overture "School for Scandal"

The Year of Billy Miller

2014 Newberry Honor by Kevin Henke About a second-grader Billy Miller has an incident with the Jolly Green Giant. He has to start second grade with a bum on his head. As the year goes by Billy learns how to navigate elementary school, how to appreciate his little sister, and how to be a more grown up and responsible member of the family and a help to his busy working mom and stay-at-home dad.

Les Meserables

A 1862 noel by Victor Hugo. After 19 years as a prisoner, Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is freed by Javert (Russell Crowe), the officer in charge of the prison workforce. Valjean promptly breaks parole but later uses money from stolen silver to reinvent himself as a mayor and factory owner. Javert vows to bring Valjean back to prison. Eight years later, Valjean becomes the guardian of a child named Cosette after her mother's (Anne Hathaway) death, but Javert's relentless pursuit means that peace will be a long time coming.

Eukaryote

A cell that contains a nucleus and membrane bound organelles that protects the DNA

Op Art

A form of abstract art that gives the illusion of movement by the precise use of pattern and color, or in which conflicting patterns emerge and overlap. Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely are its most famous exponents

Samba

A lively dance of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4 time danced to samba music whose origins include the Maxixe. Samba was created by African people in Brazil from the music and dance culture they brought from Africa.

Soliquoy

A monologue also referred to as a speech

Oread

A nymph(spirit) who dwell among the mountains

Suite

A set of instrumental or orchestral/ concert band pieces originated from the late 14th century

Minuet

A slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century

Obelisk

A tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed on top such as the Washington Monument

Prokaryote

A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus and membrane bound organelles that acts like a protective cover for the cell and prevents thirst

Chris Hemsworth

Actor known for playing Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who was also on the Heart of The Sea

Bisque

Also referred to as Biscuit is any pottery that has been fired in a kiln without an ceramic glaze

La Gioconda

Alternate name for the Mona Lisa by Vincent Van Gogh

Maya Lin

American architect and sculptor who achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C. while an undergraduate at Yale

Jerome Robbins

American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who worked in classical ballet, on Broadway, and in films and television who wrote the books "West Side Story", "On the town" and "Peter Pan"

Norman Rockwell

American painter and illustrator from the regionalist period whos artworks include "Freedom from Want", "Saying Grace", "Freedom From Fear", "Freedom of Worship" and "The Problem we all live with" and "Girl at Mirror"

Tyson Gay

American track and field sprinter who was born in Lexington,KY who has a personal best of 9.69 seconds which makes him tied for second fastest athlete ever along with Yohan Blake

War of the Worlds

An 1897 science fiction novel by H.G.Wells. The novel details a catastrophic conflict between humans and extraterrestrial "Martians." It is considered a landmark work of science fiction, and it has inspired numerous adaptations and limitations.

Rhythm Circle

An informal group of people who gather together to make music with percussion instruments. Sometimes these groups are also called rhythm circles. Usually, the participants in a drum circle sit in chairs arranged in a circle. It's free-form, without a firm beginning or end to the music.

Echo

An oread loved by Pan who was punished by Hera(the wife of Zeus) by not being allowed to talk and speak because Echo had affairs with Zeus

Bogs

Areas of wet, spongy ground

Ansel Adams

Artist who was primarily a landscape photographer that included works such as Moon over Half Dome and Grass and Pool

Ray Bradbury

Author of "Dandelion Wine", "Martian Tales","Fahrenheit 451".

Kurt Vonnegut

Author of "Slaughterhouse-Five"

Verses in the Quran are called

Ayahs

US Department of Energy

Cabinet-level department of the US Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material which was founded by Jimmy Carter in 1977

group 14 hydrides

Chemical compounds composed of hydrogen and group 14 atoms(Carbon, silicon, germanium, tin and lead)

Charlie Parker

Composer and musician who capitalized name on Ornithology and Bird Gets the Worm." A celebrated saxophone solist, his improvisations laid the foundation for bebop. Identify the musician nicknamed Yardbird also called Bird

Felix Mendelssohn

Composer who was the grandson of a Jewish philosopher and was responsible

Hydrocarbon

Compounds composed of only carbon and hydrogen which are examples of Group-14 hydrides which include methane

Aram Khachaturian

Contemporary Armenian composer who is famous for his songs: Sabre Dance Toccata And his suite: Adventures With Ivan

Interval

Distance between two notes

Who is the King of Rock and Roll?

Elvis Presley

William Jones

Establisher of the Asiatic Society of Bengal who was known for being able to speak Sanskrit very well who published the book Sacontala

Le Salle

French explorer sent by King Louis XIV to travel South from Canada and sail down to the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico to explore and establish fur-trade routes along the river

Composer of "The Messiah"?

Handel

Dancing House

Hotel that is bent by Frank Gehry also known as Fred and Gingeris in Prague, Czech Republic

Alps

Instrument also referred to as the Alphorn or Alpine Horn used by mountain dwellers which is a meter long with a wood cup mouth piece

Antonio Volta

Inventor of the chemical battery

Composer of Iberia

Isaac Albeniz

Composer with Brandenburg Concertos, the Art of Fugue and St. John Passion

J.S.Bach

Cool Jazz

Jazz Style of the 1950s

St. Matthew Passion

Johann Sebastian Bach

Who wrote The Well-Tempered Clavier?

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Sea of Tranquility

Landing site of the Apollo 11 where the first person stepped on the moon

Cats

Longest running show on broadway

Odette

Main character of "Swan Lake"

Author of Prince and The Pauper

Mark Twain

Regionalism

Modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs and illustrations

Manga

Most common term for Japanese comic books

Subito Piano

Music term indicating a player should begin playing soft abruptly and Italian for suddenly soft

The Sound of Music

Musical about a nanny watching the Von Trapp family in 1965 directed by Robert Wise

Fiddler on the Roof

Musical by Joseph Stein about Tevye the Dairyman and his daughters, a series of short stories by Sholem Aleicham that he wrote in Yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about Jewish life in a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century Composer: Jerry Bock Characters: Tevye and Perchik

Sheltowee

Name given to Daniel Boone

The Catcher int eh Rye

Novel about phony-hating Holden Caulfied written by J.D.Sallinger

Orlando Furioso (opera)

Opera composed by Vivaldi

Three Musicians

Painting by Pablo Picasso in the style of Synthetic Cubism

The Harvest

Painting by Vincent Van Gogh which features fields of wheat

Lithographs

Paintings done by marking on a stone with ink and pressing paper against it

Excretion

Pee pee and poo poo

Vincenzo Peruggia

Person who stole the Mona Lisa in 1911

Peter Thaikovsky

Person who wrote the music for "The Nutcracker"

Immanuel Kant

Philosopher who argues 7+5=12

Prelude

Piece of music that traditionally leads into something else

"I'm nobody! Who are you?"

Poem by Emily Dickinson about how it is better to be nobody than a somebody

Secretion

Process in which substances are produced and discharged from a cell, gland or organ for a particular function

nitrogen-fixing bacteria

Prokaryotic microorganisms capable of transforming nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into "fixed nitrogen compounds" such as ammonia

Voltage/Electromotive Force (EMF)

Quantity created by batteries to create currents in electrical currents

Aliko Dangole

Richest man of Nigeria

Who is the "King of Ragtime"?

Scott Joplin

The Last Judgement

Self portrait in the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew by Michaelangolo which is located on the Sistine Chapel altar wall

Salem Witch Trials

Several accusations of witchcraft led to sensational trials in Salem, Massachusetts at which Cotton Mather presided as the chief judge. 18 people were hanged as witches. Afterwards, most of the people involved admitted that the trials and executions had been a terrible mistake.

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" - Judy Garland

Song by Harold Arlen which Judy Garland made famous in "The Wizard of Oz"

Old Folks at Home

Song by Stephen Foster that begins, "Way down upon the Swanee river,/ far far away"

Sleipnir

Supreme god of Norse mythology who had a 8-legged steed(horse) that was parented by Loki

The chapters of the Qur'an are known as

Surahs

Gabriel dictated what book?

The Qur'an

Ductility

The ability to be pulled into thin wires

The Red Vineyard

The only painting that Vincent Van Gogh sold

Piccolo

The piccolo is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The modern piccolo has most of the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written

Art Theft

Theft that resuls in stolen paitnings such as when Rembrandt's painting was stolen as well as the Mona Lisa being stolen

This element of music may express emotion in a composition. It is determined by the quality of the musical instruments' sound. What quality of sound enables listeners to distinguish one instrument from another?

Timbre

Who painted "The Hospital of Saint-Remy?

Vincent Van Gogh

Composer of The Magic Flute

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Surrender of Breda

Work by Diego Velazquez that depicts a military victory a military victory at the 1624 Siege of Breda during the 80 years war

The Prodigal Son

Work composed by Claude Debussy

Zadok the Priest

Work composed by George Frideric Handel

Gesso

a mixture of glue and chalk, thinned with water and applied as a ground before painting with oil or egg tempera

Buddhism

a religion that originated in India about 500 B.C. and spread to China, where it grew into a major religion by A.D. 400 that outlined the 3 baskets

Uncle Tom's Cabin

an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War" which is about a KY(Kentucky) farmer named Arthur Shelby who decides to raise money by selling two slaves

Bela Bartok

composer from Hungary known for ballet Miraculous Mandarin and opera Bluebeard's castle and other ballet called Wooden Prince

Scat Singing

improvised jazz singing in which the voice is used in imitation of an instrument with wordless vocables

Gold

most malleable and ductile metal with atomic symbol "AU"

Shofar (Ram's horn)

musical instrument used for religious purposes, most commonly for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur that is like the modern bugle

Peat

partially decayed plant matter found in bogs and swamps used as a plant covering or fuel also used as a fertilizer and burned as fuel

Malleability

the ability of a substance to be hammered or beaten into thin sheets

Nineveh

the capital of the Assyrian Empire and the site of a great library under King Ashurbanipal and was a junction for commercial routes crossing the Tigris thus uniting the East and the West