Chapters 8-16

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Identify the similarities between certain basic ideas in the periods of ancient Greece and Renaissance England.

*Both periods were marked by considerable prosperity and public power. *Both ages had somewhat similar ideas about how a stage should be constructed.

Identify the significance of music in drama.

*In modern drama, music is rarely used in serious plays. *In Greek drama, the dialogue was sometimes sung or chanted.

Which of the following statements are true of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade?

*It was influenced by Antonin Artaud's radical antiestablishment thinking. *It regarded audiences as comfortable, pampered groups of privileged people.

Who are the main characters of The Gaol Gate?

*Mary Cushin *Dennis Cahel *Mary Cahel

Which of the following statements are the Formalists of music most likely to agree with?

*Music is by its very nature essentially powerless to express anything at all. *Music has no connection with nonmusical situations.

Identify the true statements about harmony.

*The harmony is the vertical dimension, as with a chord. *The harmony that most people hear is basically chordal.

Which of the following statements are the Formalists of music most likely to disagree with?

*There is a strong association of music with feelings. *The similarity of structures is the basis of the association of music with feelings.

Who founded the Abbey Theatre?

*William Butler Yeats *Isabella Augusta Gregory

______ was the master of Old Comedy.

Aristophanes

The ____ musical is one of the most important contributions to the stage made by the United States.

Broadway

Identify a true statement about Aristotle's tragedies.

Carefully structured plots are basic.

____ are strong sensations felt as related to a specific stimulus.

Emotions

Around the time of the production of The Gaol Gate in 1906, what were the people of Ireland were concerned about?

England's rule over Ireland

The altar

It indicated the religious nature of the festival of Dionysus, during which plays were presented.

Which of the following is true of melody?

It is easily recognizable when replayed.

Identify a feature of Old Comedy.

It is still present in the routines of nightclub comedians around the world.

Identify a true statement about the first A in the overall structure of the sonata form.

It is the exposition, with a statement of the main theme in the tonic key of the composition.

The paraskenion

It provided entrances and exits.

______ is usually defined as a group of notes played one after another, having a perceivable shape or having a perceivable beginning, middle, and end.

Melody

The proponent of New Comedy was ______.

Menander

Which of the following is true of music?

Music is capable of clarifying and revealing the feelings of individuals.

Identify one true statement about tonal relationships in music.

Music that does not emphasize tonal relationships can give people an insight into sounds that are noises rather than tones.

Identify a true statement about archetypal drama.

One's search for personal identity can serve as a primary archetypal structure for drama.

What are the two terms used by composers to identify the desired dynamics at a given moment during a composition?

Piano and forte

Which of the following is true of Aristotle's thoughts on tragedies?

Plot is much more the center of interest than character.

Thought

The ideas that underlie the plot of a drama, expressed in terms of dialogue and soliloquy

Diction

The language of a drama, which should be appropriate to the action

Which of the following is true of the sonata form?

The overall structure of the sonata form is A-B-A.

Spectacle

The places of the action, the costumes, set designs, and visual elements in a play

Identify a true statement about moods.

They sometimes arise from no apparent stimulus.

Identify one true statement about consonance.

What sounds dissonant often becomes more consonant after repeated hearings.

The word comedy comes from

a relative of the wine god.

The same melody that appears after the first note in a fugue is called the ______.

answer

The basic psychological pattern that people apparently react to on a more or less subconscious level is known as a(n) ______ pattern.

archetypal

Tempo of a musical composition is perceived in terms of ______.

beats

Many of the old comedies of Aristophanes were

raucous and coarse.

Which unique features of Game of Thrones would make it difficult to produce on network television?

*Provocative content including cruelty, torture, and sexual depravity *Extremely complex and dense storylines similar to epic literature

Identify the fundamental features that separate art from the artlike.

*Revelatory power *Form-content *The clarification of some subject matter

Identify the views of Isadora Duncan on ballet.

*She felt that the emphasis placed by ballet on the movement of the arms and legs was restrictive. *She stated that ballet placed very less emphasis on the torso.

What are the two types of subject matter in music?

*Sound *Feelings

What are some of the sources of sound in film?

*Sounds that correspond to action on the screen *Dialogue *Music

Identify the photographic groups that follow the tradition of straight photography.

*The f/64 Group *The documentarists

Which of the following statements correctly describe the challenges and the unique structure of The Deer Hunter?

*The film takes place in several different environments, which are seemingly unrelated. *The story is divided into separate sections that are radically different from each other.

Which of the following statements is true of the second movement in Beethoven's Eroica Symphony?

*The melody is melancholy and the tempo is very slow. *The second movement is a funeral march.

Identify the segments of the society that The Wire focused on.

*The public school system *The port of Baltimore *The street drug trade *The law

Which of the following are examples of ballroom dances?

*The tango *The waltz *Salsa *The fox-trot

Which of the following statements are true of film noir?

*The tone is dark and reflects the attitude of the characters and society. *The subject matter is often crime and violence.

Identify the distinguishing features of films made by the duo of producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory.

*Their reputation for using detailed designs *Their meticulous reproduction of Edwardian costumes

Which of the following statements are true of Susan Stroman's dance piece Contact?

*There are three segments in the production. *There is a general narrative for each segment, but no traditional pretext.

Which of these statements are true of the second section of Revelations?

*There are three, distinctly different dances in the second section. *The title is "Take Me to the Water." *The pretext suggests baptism and affirmation of faith in God.

Which of the following are true of the manuscript book, the Book of Kells?

*There is an extraordinary level of detail on pages, such that strong magnification is needed to see the manuscript. *There is a total of 300 pages, with each containing script and illumination. *Its origin is Irish.

How can actors create motion in a film?

*They can move toward the camera. *They can move across the field of camera vision.

The third movement is

*a little briefer than the last. *much briefer than the first.

Bernini's Apollo and Daphne catches the moment when Daphne ______.

*becomes rooted *sprouts leaves

Examples of the features of Chris Burden's art are

*being shot with a 22-caliber rifle. *being nailed to a car.

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother deals with ______ and ______ values.

*family *economic

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was not highly regarded because it contained poems that were ______.

*free verse *unrhymed

Some art and medical courses are designed to develop skills like

*hand-eye coordination. *perceiving volume and depth. *being conscious of details.

Charlie Sheeler's Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company features

*iron *exhausts *barrels

Some artlike work like ______ may deserve condemnation.

*pornography *propaganda *shock art

Fine works of art, including ______ and ______, can represent negative values.

*the Godfather films *the television series The Sopranos

Some artwork such as ______ and ______ can deal with the value of patriotism.

*the film Casablanca *Ballester's poster To US!

The arts help us to understand ______.

*the world around us *the human condition

Examples of the Islamic decorative arts include ______.

*wall hangings *furniture *vases

Swing dancing

1930s and 1940s

Rock dancing

1960s

Break dancing

1980s

Hip-hop

1990s

In Viola's series The Passions, the video footage was shot at ______ per second, then exhibited at ______ per second, creating a slow-motion effect with great detail.

300 frames; 30 frames

Identify the only requirement needed for dance.

A body in motion

Fade

A scene darkens either to reveal a shot or end a shot

Plot

A series of events leading to disaster for the main characters who undergo reversals in fortune and understanding but usually ending with a form of enlightenment

Handheld shot

A shot in which a camera is carried by the camera operator, sometimes on a special harness

Following shot

A shot in which a camera keeps moving in pace with the figure in the frame

Tracking shot

A shot in which a camera moves forward, backward, or sidewise

Point-of-view shot

A shot in which a camera records what a character is seeing

Close-up

A shot in which an important object, such as the face of a character, fills the screen

The second movement

A-B-A or rondo

is the subject matter of dance at its most basic level.

Abstract motion

The character ____ is nonverbal.

Ada

Alisdair agrees to let Ada give piano lessons to Baines, which leads to ______.

Ada's seduction by Baines

______ is the philosophy of art.

Aesthetics

The movement of straight photography was pioneered by ______.

Alfred Stieglitz

During the ______ section of sonata form, the themes are often played in closely related keys.

B, or development,

Which of the following statements correctly describes the French poet Baudelaire's views on photography?

Baudelaire was an opponent of realistic art and condemned the influence of photography on all art.

Identify a feature of Étienne Carjat's portrait of Charles Baudelaire.

Baudelaire's face is in focus, but not his shoulders.

Which of the following is true of Étienne Carjat's portrait of the French poet Charles Baudelaire?

Baudelaire's intensity creates the illusion that he is looking at us.

Identify a photograph of Henri Cartier-Bresson that is a perfect example of capturing an image at the "decisive moment."

Behind the Gare St. Lazare

What is the main genre of music used in The Godfather?

Big band dance music from the 1940s and 1950s

Hip-hop dancing began in the , New York in the ____ 1970s as a way to move to ____ music.

Bronx rap

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is set in ______.

Brooklyn a heatwave

Luis Buñuel briefly shows us the razoring of a woman's eyeball (actually a slaughtered cow's eyeball) in Un Chien Andalou (1928). The scene is artistically justifiable because

Buñuel carefully integrated the scene into the total structure.

How does the award-winning show Homeland reflect the current political interests of viewers?

By focusing on the political and cultural conflicts between the Arab and Western worlds.

____ ____ believed the power of archetypes comes from its capacity to reveal through art the "imprinting" of human experience.

Carl Jung

The conceptual art pieces Wrapped Reichstag and Running Fence are the work of ______.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

____ ____ images have long ago replaced the hand-drawn figures of early animation.

Computer generated

is an almost-pure dance theater piece, created by Susan Stroman.

Contact

Except for their talent and hatred of the bourgeoisie and the status quo, the ______ had little in common.

Dadaists

Many styles such as surrealist, abstract, Pop art—to name a few—were significantly influenced by the ____.

Dadaists

Identify one difference between dialogue and soliloquy.

Dialogue moves the action forward by telling people about the importance of the situations in which the actors speak.

____ are photographers who portray a world that is disappearing so quickly people cannot see it go.

Documentarists

Early comedies were often ethnic in nature.

Each episode was complete in itself.

Which of the following is true of the episodes of early television programs?

Each episode was complete in itself.

Which of the following statements best describes Carrie Ann Weems's project The Kitchen Table?

Each image in the series is a self-portrait, taken at the kitchen table and from the same angle.

Charleston

Early 20th century

Which of the following is true of the early television series in the United States?

Early comedies were often ethnic in nature.

Pipilotti Rist's 1997 show, ______, was said to blur the boundaries of art and entertainment.

Ever Is Over All

____ values are the means to intrinsic values.

Extrinsic

Fine art is looked down upon by the "highbrows," whereas popular art is looked down upon by the "lowbrows."

False

In theme and variations, the variation(s) is a completely new melodic motif than the original theme.

False

Most of the music in Stroman's dance production, Contact, was original and played by a live band.

False

Much modern art embraces the idea of beauty.

False

The S.O.S. Starification Object Series features actual scarification.

False

The blue notes were identical to the standard C major scale.

False

The early rock and roll bands were popular and widely accepted by white audiences.

False

The form of dance is as clearly perceptible as the form of other art forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture.

False

True or false: A work of art can be properly understood without reference to the external history of a film.

False

True or false: Archetypal patterns are exclusive characteristics of tragic plays.

False

True or false: Casablanca was a typical film noir mystery that met the audiences' expectations at the time.

False

True or false: Samuel Beckett proved that the traditional elements of drama are important for intensive participative experiences.

False

Which political system is the subject of Anselmo Ballester's poster A Noi! (To Us!)?

Fascism

Identify the most pervasive subject matter of dance.

Feeling

What is an obvious issue when considering the background of and inspiration for Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne?

Few people in modern times will have read Ovid before seeing the sculpture.

______ is a medium in which the moving image is preeminent.

Film

What editing technique is used in Casablanca specifically to depict Rick and Ilsa's love affair in Paris?

Flashbacks

The innovative modern dance act of ______ was performed by Diana Vishneva, one of Russia's finest Mariinsky ballerinas.

For Love of Women

Identify a characteristic of E. M. Forster's Howards End.

Forster wrote his novel in a way that emulates contemporary drama, at least in part.

Identify the architect who replicated a duet between Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in his construction of "the dancing building."

Frank Gehry

The Gaol Gate is named for the ____ jail in Ireland.

Galway

Dorothea Lange worked as a photographer under a federal program during the ____ ____.

Great Depression

What is the origin of the Chi-Ro page in the Book of Kells?

Greek letters; the first two letters in Christ's name

______ was the subject of the entire S.O.S. Starification Series.

Hannah Wilke

______ are overtones produced by every musical instrument that help people identify one instrument from another.

Harmonic partials

Identify one true statement about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's interpretation of The Marriage of Figaro.

He changed some names and the occupation of some characters.

Which of the following is true of Bill Viola's work in video art?

He is famous for effectively using the technique of slow motion.

Which one of the following is a technique that was used in Mozart's interpretation of The Marriage of Figaro?

He repeated the notes to intensify the emotional effects of the music.

Which of the following is true of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work in photography?

He used the 35-mm Leica and specialized in photographing people.

Which of the following is true of Nam June Paik's work in video art?

He was credited with opening many avenues of experimentation and inspired a generation of video artists.

Which of the following is true of Julia Margaret Cameron's portrait of Sir John Herschel?

Herschel is draped in a black shawl so that his clothing does not tell the viewers anything about him.

______ art began with the Dadaists around 1916.

Idea

______ raises questions about the presuppositions of traditional art and the art establishment.

Idea art

The period during which the Abbey Theatre was founded was the ____ Literary Revival.

Irish

The portrait of ______ by Robert Howlett was taken by exposing the negative for a shorter time and widening the aperture of his lens.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

The Batsheva Dance Company derived from Martha Graham's teaching in

Israel

Which of the following is true of New Comedy?

It avoided the brutal attacks on individuals, such as Socrates.

What was the impact that Roots (ABC, 1977) had on American television audiences?

It changed the way most Americans thought about television as merely entertainment.

According to Henri Matisse, which of the following is true of The Dance?

It derived originally from observation of local men and women dancing on a beach.

Identify a true statement about idea art.

It does not mix or embody its thoughts in the medium.

Identify a true statement about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.

It engages our sympathy with Michael and increasingly horrifies us with many of his actions.

Identify an accurate statement about Roots (ABC, 1977).

It explored the moral issues relative to slavery as well as racism and the damage it does.

Identify a feature of conceptual art.

It floats free from material limitations and can occur anywhere.

Identify a true statement about the snapshot style of photography.

It has not been established by any photographic school.

Identify a true statement about Ovid's The Metamorphoses.

It includes a large number of myths that were of interest to Ovid's own time.

Which of the following is true of social dance?

It is a form of recreation.

Which of the following is true of Duchamp's works?

It is anti-art and anti-establishment.

Identify a true statement about video art.

It is more experimental and radical in structure than television.

How does act 1 of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake open?

It opens with the principal male dancer attending a village celebration.

Which of the following is true of an illustration?

It portrays an object or event as the subject matter.

The skene

It represented a home or palace against which the action was set.

Identify a feature of New Comedy.

It tends to be suave and subtle.

The volatile race relations in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing involves ______ people.

Italian Latinx Korean Black

In Anselmo Ballester's propaganda poster A Noi! (To Us!), the colors in the design represent the Fascist ____ ____.

Italian flag

Which of the following is true of the artistic appropriation of architecture?

Its centering of space makes room for the placement of other arts.

____ ____ based his carefully staged photograph After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue on a scene from the novel of the same name.

Jeff Wall

Who claims to be the founder of jazz?

Jelly Roll Morton

The choreographer, ______, for West Side Story created an innovative blend of ballet, modern dance, and theater.

Jerome Robbins

Carrie Ann Weem's photo Untitled (Man Smoking) is the second image in a series, her project The ____ ____.

Kitchen Table

____ refers to works that realistically depict easily identifiable objects and events in a pretentiously vulgar, awkward, sentimental, and often obscene manner.

Kitsch

Early Chinese music was influenced in part by ______.

Korea and Vietnam

Identify the person who introduced a group of French artists and scientists to the first demonstration of photography.

Louis J. M. Daguerre

The ______ was formed reluctantly in 1980 because its founder could not do the dances he wanted with other existing companies.

Mark Morris Dance Group

What historic and culturally important moment is depicted in Pontormo's painting The Visitation?

Mary and her cousin Elizabeth tell each other of their pregnancies—with Jesus and John the Baptist, respectively.

Which of the following is true of idea art?

Medium and ideas are experienced as separate in this form.

Charles "Lil Buck" Riley brought Jookin from the streets of ______ to the stage and film.

Memphis

The third movement

Minuet

Beethoven wrote his Symphony in Eb Major, No 3 to celebrate the greatness of ______.

Napoleon

The Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist was given the entire ______ in New York for her 2016 show, Pixel Forest.

New Museum

Jazz began in the city of ____ and later moved up the Mississippi River to ____.

New Orleans Chicago

The ____ theories of value claim that it is an object that excites interest.

Objectivist

To which Greek literary character can Michael Corleone be compared?

Oedipus

Martha Graham's dance Night Journey is an interpretation of Sophocles' work

Oedipus Rex

Who took over and reshaped Batsheva Dance Company?

Ohad Naharin

Dissolve

One scene disappears slowly while the next scene appears as if beneath it

Wipe

One shot separated from the other with a line moving across the screen

____ art aims at bringing back physicality, stressing material things as much as or more than it does concepts.

Performance

The French play titled The Marriage of Figaro that attacked the government was written by ______.

Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais

______ art encompasses contemporary works enjoyed by the masses, who presumably lack artistic discrimination.

Popular

Which of the following relates to counterpoint in music?

Powerful musical effects obtained by staggering the melodic lines

____ is created and spread by institutions of some sort, whether secular, religious, or political.

Propaganda

Identify the film by Quentin Tarantino that was ahead of its time in portraying violence.

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

______ refers to the temporal relationships of sounds.

Rhythm

How are the characters of Rick Blaine and Victor Laszlo in Casablanca contrasted with each other?

Rick is initially portrayed as an anti-hero; Victor is portrayed as a hero.

How do the setting and Rick Blaine's occupation contribute to the integral and surprising use of music in Casablanca?

Rick runs a nightclub with an orchestra and various entertainers.

The public project ____ ____ involved an eighteen-foot-tall canvas barrier running through farmland.

Running Fence

When he was young, Mathew Brady studied photography with ______.

Samuel F. B. Morse

Which of the following is true of sculpture during medieval times?

Sculpture within the church could depict a person of high standing—either in terms of social status or moral reputation.

Identify a true statement about act 1 of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Siegfried's drunk tutor interrupts the prince's pas de trois with two maids.

The portrait photograph of ______ by Julia Margaret Cameron reveals him as a thinker of deep ruminations.

Sir John Herschel

Doug Aitken mounted a gigantic video projection on the outside walls of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2007. Identify the accurate projection from the following.

Sleepwalkers

The popular video projection titled ______ consisted of five 13-minute narratives of people of different social classes going to work at different nighttime jobs.

Sleepwalkers

Identify an attribute of Samuel Beckett's dramas.

Some of his plays were written with no words at all.

The first movement

Sonata form

Identify a feature of music.

Sound can be thought of as one of the subject matters of music.

Tchaikovsky's ______ is a popular ballet that was composed from 1871 to 1877 and was first performed in 1894 (act 2) and 1895 (complete).

Swan Lake

What does archetypal drama aim at?

Symbolic or mythic interpretations of experience

Identify the popular video work of Janine Antoni.

Tear

Identify a feature of the Dada movement.

The Dadaists sometimes made art in spite of themselves.

A video composition of the AES+F group of Russia is ______.

The Feast of Trimalchio

Identify the masterpiece of the Roman poet Ovid, who inspired artists even into modern times.

The Metamorphoses

When Bernini sculpted Apollo and Daphne, he assumed viewers would be educated and have read Ovid's work, particularly ____ ____.

The Metamorphoses

______ is a video work by Bill Viola that explores the uncontrollable human emotions experienced by great artists of the past.

The Passions

One of the following TV shows is about the frustrations of a police unit that tries to use wiretapping to track the progress of street criminals deep in the drug trade. Their successes and failures are the primary material of the drama. Identify the drama.

The Wire

Identify a true statement about the blues.

The blues has given rise to jazz, which has players all over the world.

What fills out the form of films within their structural segments?

The details

Which of the following disciplines is not dominated by strictly objective or scientific standards?

The humanities

Which of these statements best describes the relationship between the mill workers and mill owners in early twentieth-century New England?

The mill owners were wealthy men; many of the mill workers were young children who were required to work intensely.

Identify a true statement about television.

The power of the moving image is as important in television as it is in cinema.

Character

The presentation of a person or persons whose actions and the reason for them are more or less revealed to the audience

Identify a true statement about repetition in music.

The refusal to repeat musical structures in a musical composition may be effective since listeners expect repetition.

Identify one true statement about rondo.

The rondo may be slow or it may be played with blazing speed.

During the baptism/murder scene in The Godfather, how is sound used in an ingenious and effective manner?

The sounds of the church scene continue as the murders are carried out.

Which of the following is true of the blues?

The term "blues" describes a range of feelings.

Identify a true statement about television.

The use of digital projection and digital cameras has made some of the limitations of television less significant.

Identify an accurate statement about playwright Sean O'Casey's views on the combination of tragedy and comedy.

There is no tragedy that is not tinged with humor.

Which of the following statements are true of Chopin's piano cycle of Preludes?

There is one prelude in each of the major and minor keys.

Which of the following is a true statement about artists?

They are sensitive to the important concerns of their societies.

Which of the following is true of moving images?

They are similar to the moving images people perceive in life.

Identify a characteristic of professional works of art.

They can be much more realistic than folk art.

Identify a feature of pictorialists.

They controlled details by subordinating them to structure.

What do tragicomedies usually do?

They tend to reveal the ambiguities of the world.

Which of the following is a feature of humanists who are not artists?

They try to clarify values by means of analysis.

Identify a characteristic of ancient Elizabethan plays.

They used very little stage scenery.

Identify a true statement about court dances.

They were not as openly energetic as folk dances.

What is the purpose of this early shot—with everyone present in the nightclub—in Casablanca?

To establish everyone's relationship in terms of politics, character, and emotion

A composer's use of contrast helps to value dynamics in a given composition.

True

Kitsch triggers disgust at worst and stock emotions at best, trivializing rather than enriching people's understanding of the subject matter.

True

True or false: In her photograph Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange caught the moment when the children's faces turned away and the mother's anxiety comes forth with utter clarity while leaving her shabby clothes in sharp focus.

True

True or false: Television was initially ignored by filmmakers due to its technical limitations.

True

True or false: The camera is an instrument that has the ability to transform visual experience into art.

True

True or false: The subtlety of the interplay of the arts in Howards End is intensified because of the subtlety of the interplay of the arts in the novel.

True

True or false: Viewers are usually captured by the imagery and the dynamism of the several patterns that alternate in the monitors when they see Nam June Paik's Video Flag.

True

During the Civil War, Mathew Brady convinced the ____ army to let him send photographers equipped with cameras and field ____ to document military activity.

Union, darkrooms

Which of the following is a difference between a work of art and an artlike work?

Unlike a work of art, an artlike work has form but lacks a form-content.

Identify a feature of the objectivist theories of value.

Value is in the object independently of any subject.

Identify a feature of the episodes of early television programs.

Viewers could see the episodes in any order and be fully satisfied.

The Starry Night, an eloquent image portraying an intensely threatening night, is a famous painting of ______.

Vincent van Gogh

Identify the art form that is based on computer technology.

Virtual art

Which of the following is true of Jeff Wall's photographic interpretation of The Invisible Man?

Wall installed hundreds of filament lights in a space that replicates the basement described in the novel.

Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night was mostly likely inspired by the poet ____ ____.

Walt Whitman

Indian music was influenced by ______.

West Asian countries

Fiddler on the Roof comes from a collection of ____ stories written by Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitch).

Yiddish

The instinct to decorate seems to derive from

a desire to have something beautiful to sustain attention.

The success of The Wire depended on

a gritty realism that often introduced uncomfortable material.

The fiddler from Fiddler on the Roof is based on

a series of paintings by Marc Chagall.

The celebrated National Nederlanden Building in Prague, Czech Republic, is one of the most extraordinary examples of the interaction between the arts of ______.

architecture and dance

The ______, a chord whose notes are played in quick succession, is the most conspicuously repeated pattern in Mozart's interpretation of The Marriage of Figaro.

arpeggio

In the 1960s and 1970s, pop art was

at the edge of the avant-garde and startling to the masses.

The emphasis on darkness in film noir reflects the

attitude of the characters toward society.

In Casablanca, much of the flashback footage of German armies on the move is

authentic

In Casablanca, much of the flashback footage of German armies on the move is ____.

authentic

In Casablanca, much of the flashback footage of German armies on the move is ____.

authentic

According to the authors, the schema that categorizes types of "artlike" creations is divided into two sections: traditional and ____ ____.

avant garde

A difference between television and video art is that video art

avoids a dramatic narrative line, unlike television.

The origins of ______ usually are traced to the early 17th century, when dancers performed interludes between scenes of an opera.

ballet

Some examples of artlike work, like ______, play a civilizing role in our lives.

beautiful crafts

Bill Viola's compositions alter a viewer's sense of time and space in a manner that is revelatory of

both the sense of the work and the human content of greeting and joy.

Chords are particularly useful for establishing ______.

cadences

Music can help us understand emotions that we ______.

cannot name

The ______ occurs when an object moves toward the camera at a fast speed, rushes at the viewer, and seemingly flies over our heads.

catapult effect

In 1942 northern Africa, the French government ______ with the Germans.

cautiously collaborated

The great Greek tragedies were ____ to musical instruments.

chanted

A ______ is a group of notes sounded together that has a specific relationship to a given key.

chord

The creator of dance is referred to as its

choreographer

The ______ of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake were Leon Ivanov and Marius Petipa.

choreographers

A section added to the end of a recapitulation is called a ____.

coda

Ballroom dancing thrives on

competition

Except in its most reductionist form, the subject matter of most great films is

complex and difficult to isolate.

The strategy behind the ______ movement was to bring audiences into direct contact with the creative concepts of artists.

conceptual art

When two or more tones are sounded simultaneously and the result is easeful and pleasing to the ear, the resultant sound is said to be ____.

consonant

Playing one or more themes or melodies or motives against each other is called ______.

counterpoint

The fundamental and common feature that is shared by art and the artlike is the ______.

crafting

Most medical schools in the United States have their students take courses in the humanities in order to

create doctors who are feelingful communicators.

The producer-director duo of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory is famous for

creating films with an atmosphere that appropriately reflects the era just before and after 1900.

A gradual buildup in loudness is called a(n) ______, whereas a gradual reduction is called a(n) ______.

crescendo; decrescendo

In shaping the film in a way that helps us see Mafia life as neither glamorous nor desirable, Coppola forces us to examine our popular ____.

culture

The mission of ____ was to shock a crazed world with expressions of outrageous nonsense, negating every traditional value.

dadaism

According to psychologist Havelock Ellis, ____ is the loftiest, the most moving, and the most beautiful form of art.

dance

The most obvious synthesis occurs with ______.

dance and music

The most memorable parts of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story are the

dances

Henri Cartier-Bresson used the phrase "the ______" to define the crucial interaction of shapes and spaces, formed by people and things.

decisive moment

Henri Cartier-Bresson used the phrase "the ______" to define the crucial interaction of shapes and spaces, formed by people and things. Multiple choice question.

decisive moment

The television series The Americans depicts negative values against ____.

democracy

The primary dramatic interchanges in a play are achieved by ______.

dialogue

Contemporary fine-art photography is the result of ____ ____.

digital cameras

In his work, After 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue, Jeff Wall uses photography to

document unreality.

The television series Homeland won the Emmy for the best ____ in 2012.

drama

The person who puts the shots in order after the filming is finished is the ______.

editor

A listener perceives the tonic as the basic tone because it

establishes itself as the anchor.

In The Godfather films, Francis Ford Coppola rarely cuts rapidly from one shot to another but depends on ______.

establishing shots

In her 1916 poem, Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn considered the irony of men playing golf while children nearby worked in a factory as a(n) ______.

ethical issue

In the author's opinion, the insights of the arts are necessary when studying ______, which is the inquiry into assumptions and principles used when making value decisions.

ethics

The ______ declared its principles through manifestos and shows by Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and others.

f/64 Group

To represent water in Revelations, dancers hold a bolt of ____ across the stage.

fabric

Like the 1917 poster Wake Up America, Patriotic propaganda often featured a person wrapped in a

flag

Like the 1917 poster Wake Up America, Patriotic propaganda often featured a person wrapped in a ____.

flag

Technical limitations are a clue to identifying ______.

folk art

Many of Frederic Chopin's piano works featured ______.

folk melodies and forms

The details and structure of a dance that give an individual insight into its subject matter are known as the ______ of the dance.

form

Hip-hop is a

freestyle and improvised dance.

The ____ is a specialized structure of counterpoint and was developed in the 17th and 18th centuries.

fugue

The second movement of Beethoven's Eroica contains a ____ in a later section.

fugue

During the process of film editing, the joining of two shots that have similar composition, color, or scene is referred to as

graphic match

Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!" is accepted as one of the ______.

greatest poems of the age

From its beginnings, the symphony was noted for its development of ______.

harmonic structures

The sounding of tones simultaneously is called ______.

harmony

Contact is considered an almost-pure dance theater piece because it

has no continuous narrative.

In Casablanca, Rick Blaine is not portrayed as a ____, but his background includes ____-____ activity in Ethiopia and Spain.

hero anti-Nazi

Participating in court dances signified

high social status

What type of music was known to use the blues scales, a powerful rhythm emphasizing the second and fourth beats of each measure, and virtuoso solo players?

hot jazz

The broad range of creative activities and studies that are usually contrasted with mathematics and the advanced sciences are the ______.

humanities

Duchamp's work is usually characterized by ______.

humor

The modern tradition of visual art interpreting fiction has been limited to ____.

illustration

When realistic painters interpret the objects and events that they imitate, they are crossing the line from ______.

illustration to art

Baudelaire was a champion of ____ and an opponent of realistic art.

imagination

Illustrations in novels usually provided visual information to help the reader

imagine what the characters and setting look like.

The context that is most important to understand a film is the ______.

internal context

When a work of art takes another work of art as its subject matter, the former is a(n) ____ of the latter.

interpretation

Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet ____ Shakespeare's play for its subject matter.

interprets

The values that evoke immediate feelings and serve as means to further values are ______.

intrinsic-extrinsic values

A difference between a work of art and an artlike work is that an artlike work

is not revelatory of values.

An accurate statement about straight photography is that

it aimed toward excellence in photographic techniques, independent of painting.

A true statement about social dance is that

it is a form of recreation and social enjoyment.

An accurate statement about Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother is that

it stresses centrality and balance by placing the children's heads next to the mother's face.

Janine Antoni said that video art is characterized by

its ability to engage all of a person's senses.

The Godfather was widely praised for ______.

its technical mastery

In the 1940s, ______ was an extremely popular dance style.

jitterbugging

During the 1920s and 1930s, the public preferred ______ during theater performances.

lavish dance revues

The value of ____ is the subject matter of paintings like Goya's May 3, 1808 and Adams' Execution in Saigon.

life

The size of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne is ______.

life-size

Realistic painting done by professionals requires

little or no training to enjoy.

Though often not harmonic, African music is ____.

melodic

The artist who painted The Starry Night struggled was tormented with ____ ____.

mental illness

Indian music uses ____-____, which are pitches that fall between European half-notes.

micro tones

The origins of ______ are usually traced to the American dancers Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis.

modern dance

Early soap operas dealt with issues like

money, sex, and questionable behaviour.

In most cases, the Broadway musical is

more popular than standard drama.

The starting point of film is the ______.

moving image

In Bergman's Wild Strawberries, the meaning of the coffin scene is embodied in the ______.

moving images

Aristotle considered ______ to be an important part of the dramatic experience—"a very real factor in the pleasure of the drama."

music

No art reaches into an individual's life of feeling more deeply than ______.

music

Some extreme experimenters of films remove the ____ completely and instead present a succession of images.

narrative

The ____ ____ of most films, including The Godfather, supplies the framework on which the filmmaker builds the artistry of the shots and sound.

narrative structure

The most powerful dissonance is achieved when

notes close to one another in pitch are sounded simultaneously.

Because of the equipment she used at the time, Dorothea Lange could work ____.

only slowly

In combining music, drama, sets, and sometimes dance, the art form of ____ was held in highest esteem in Europe in the eighteenth century

opera

In combining music, drama, sets, and sometimes dance, the art form of ____ was held in highest esteem in Europe in the eighteenth century.

opera

In the age of Mozart, the ______ performed a function for literature equivalent to what the film does today.

opera

The power of the archetype derives, in part, from

our recognition of a pattern that has been repeated by the human race throughout history.

Chris Burden's art often involved ____ and transgressive actions.

pain

African music uses a variety of instruments, but ______ is often central.

percussion

The form of the artlike that has no logical or sustained narrative and perhaps no narrative at all is _____.

performance art

The serial program Downton Abbey, a popular and critical success, was a ______.

period drama

The first demonstration of ______ took place in Paris in the year 1839.

photography

Photographers who use the achievements of painting, particularly realistic painting, in their effort to realize the potential of photography as art are called

pictorialists

Instead of being a murder mystery, Casablanca is a film noir ____ mystery.

political

Both of these socially conscious films, Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief and Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, focus on ____ and ____.

poverty crime

Robert Howlett's photograph of Brunel, a great builder of steamships, is considered to be a monument to ______.

power and industry

is a narrative line or story around which a ballet is built.

pretext

Today, fine-art photographers have largely abandoned the principles of

printing only what the camera sees.

Since all cultures have the basic requirement for dance, the art of dance

probably precedes all other arts.

A(n) ______ shot focuses on figures and objects moving toward a camera.

processional

A shot in which a camera focuses on figures and objects moving away is called a ______.

recessional shot

The theory of value that claims that value emerges from the relation between an interest and an object is the ______ theory of value.

relational

According to the ______, value is realized only when objects with potential value connect with the interests of someone.

relationalists

In May of 1804, Beethoven became disillusioned with the inspiration for Eroica, but instead of destroying the manuscript, he ______.

renamed it

Islamic practice prohibits art that

represents animals or people.

An editor shows a character looking at something in a shot. If the following shot shows what the character sees, it would be referred to as a(n) ______.

reverse shot

The roots of rock and roll are in ______.

rhythm and blues

Lines of emotional force are shown in Night Journey with the movements of the dance as well as by props like

ribbons

The first section or refrain of a ______ will include a melody and perhaps a development of that melody.

rondo

For many artists, art is an avenue to the ____.

sacred

The third movement is a ______, which is a lively and dancelike rhythmic tempo.

scherzo

Different than Western scales, the system of tones was set by the Tang Dynasty into 12 ____.

semitones

In recent years, most of the television programs that have won major awards have been ______.

serial in nature

Repetition in music is particularly important because of the

serial nature of the medium.

The socially conscious films, The Piano and Do the Right Thing focus on social ills like ____ and ____ .

sexism racism

Folk art in technologically developed societies tends to

share the values of the common person.

According to Susanne Langer, the basis of the association of feelings with music lies in the ______.

similarity of structures

The television series The Americans is based on ____ ____ found in Massachusetts in 2005.

sleeper cells

The Americans can be considered a(n) ______ because it took time to build an audience and because the major characters are Russian spies living as ordinary Americans.

sleeper serial drama

The ______ style of photography is considered to be a kind of rebellion against the earlier photographic movements.

snapshot

Early television ____ ____ were continuing stories that focused on personal problems in settings that reflected the current community.

soap operas

As the symphony evolved into its conventional structure in the time of Haydn and Mozart, the fourth movement was usually the ______.

sonata form or rondo

Richard Schechner's Dionysus in '69 eliminated ______.

spatial separation

Although we can think of Jookin as street dancing, it can also be seen on the ____ and ____.

stage television

The melody that is set forth clearly at the beginning of a composition in most fugues is called the ______.

statement

Musical content is achieved by the form's transformation of ____ ____.

subject matter

The ____ theories of value claim that the interest in something projects the value on it.

subjectivist

In order for a film to achieve its artistic goal, the editor must

successfully put the shots in order.

In the first section of Revelations, the general pretext is the

suffering of African Americans.

The 1917 poster Wake Up America was intended to inspire Americans to

support entering World War I.

One of the highest developments in the history of Western instrumental music is the ____.

symphony

The process of equally combining the media of one or more arts is known as ____.

synthesis

A great film like The Godfather avoids allowing ______ to dominate the story. Multiple choice question.

technique

The moving image is the subject matter of ______.

television

The speed at which a musical composition is played is known as ______.

tempo

An accurate statement about the AES+F group's The Feast of Trimalchio is that

the AES+F group intended the composition to be a work of satire.

A difference between the ancient Greek stages and the Elizabethan stages is that

the Greek stages had open amphitheaters, whereas the Elizabethan stages were roofed wooden structures.

The perception of rhythm is controlled by

the accent or stress on given notes and their duration.

The earliest criticisms of photography claimed that

the camera does not offer the control over the subject matter that painting does.

A difference between dialogue and soliloquy in plays is that in soliloquy ______.

the characters apparently speak to themselves, but dialogue is the exchange of conversation among the characters

The final dance, "Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham," features

the entire company

A difference between dialogues in older plays and dialogues in more-modern plays is that

the individual speech of a character in older plays might be relatively long, whereas it is often extremely short in more-modern plays.

The subject matter of Charlie Sheeler's Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company is

the industrial might of the United States after World War I.

The Starry Night was one of the paintings that Van Gogh created during his time in

the mental hospital.

A characteristic of Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963) is that

the moving image is preeminent in the film.

An accurate statement about Romeo and Juliet is that

the youth and innocence of the main characters add to their remarkable appeal.

Dance has taken a primary role in many live ____ productions.

theater

Music accompanied silent films early on by way of an accompanist who played at the local

theater

Music accompanied silent films early on by way of an accompanist who played at the local ____.

theater

The listener is usually presented with a clear statement of the ______.

theme

In A History of Narrative Film, David Cook explains that

there is a complexity of subject matter in films that is rivaled only by literature.

Artists differ from the other humanists primarily because

they create works that reveal values.

The other humanists—such as historians, philosophers, and theologians—differ from artists because

they reflect upon values, rather than reveal them.

The ______ appear(s) in Walt Whitman's volume of poetry, Leaves of Grass.

title of Van Gogh's painting

The purpose of propaganda art is ______, not to have an artistic experience.

to persuade us to believe a specific message

The Black American protagonist of Ralph Ellison's novel The Invisible Man realizes, in the 1940s, that he is invisible

to the general American public.

A composition written mainly in one scale is said to be in the key that bears the ______ of that scale.

tonal center

A sound with one definite frequency or a sound dominated by one definite frequency is a ____.

tone

In the third section, the recapitulation, the tonality usually returns to the ______.

tonic or home key

When more than one instrument is involved in a musical composition, the composer can contrast ____.

trimbres

In the third section of Alvin Ailey's Revelations, a sense of ______ is projected.

triumph and redemption

The structure of the blues is ______ measures with a constant pattern of chord progressions.

twelve

The plot of The Gaol Gate centers on

two women trying to help a man who is accused of murder by the government and informing by his neighbors.

The early American television shows, shows from the 1950s, usually showed

urban working-class families facing some of the same everyday problems as did the audience.

The arts help us establish our ____ system.

value

According to the subjectivist theories of value, value is entirely relative to the ______.

valuer

Tap dancing was headlined on stage during the early years of

vaudeville

A world that is a mixture of the imaginary and the real with unpredictable objects would have been created by ______.

virtual art

The instability that people perceive in dissonance is caused by

wave interference and a phenomenon called "beating."

Ancient Greek comedies were performed at a time associated with ______.

wine making

The two women in the background of Jacopo Pontormo's painting The Visitation are ____ to this major historic moment.

witnesses

Which song does Sam play even though he knows it will be painful for Rick?

"As Time Goes By"

The most dramatic moments in the first section of Revelations occur during the dance

"Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel."

How can the HBO show Game of Thrones be best described?

*A fantasy historical program *A depiction of a pseudomedieval society

Identify the characteristics of Henri Matisse's The Dance.

*It illustrates the dancers in a primitive manner. *It portrays naked men and women dancing with abandon on a green mound.

Identify the characteristic features of dance.

*It is mostly accompanied by music. *It is often incorporated in opera.

What are the advantages of computer-generated imagery in animated films?

*Lifelike movement *Facial expression *Stylized figures

Which of the following moods does L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, the title of Mark Morris's first major dance, refer to?

*Melancholy *Happiness *Restfulness

Identify Edward Weston's special areas of photographic interest.

*Nudes *Vegetables

Which instruments comprised the rhythm section in jazz?

*Piano *Drums *Bass (or guitar)

Artistic ______ occurs when artists combine their basic medium with the medium of another art or arts.

appropriation

Artists need to keep their basic medium clearly dominant for artistic ______ to occur.

appropriation

The examples of sacred art in medieval churches illustrate ____ , in which the structure uses sculpture to complete its mission.

appropriation

Except for opera, ______ is the art that appropriates the most.

architecture

What is unique about the recapitulation (fourth movement) of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony?

*A long coda added to the end of the recapitulation. *The coda features complex harmonic development. *The recapitulation is twice as long as the first movement.

Which of the following statements is true of extreme experimental films such as Koyaanisqatsi and Wavelength?

*Abstract images and familiar images are used. *Color and sound are deliberately distorted.

What are the three divisions of philosophy that are closely related to the arts?

*Aesthetics *Metaphysics *Ethics

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is set in ____.

*Brooklyn *a heatwave

Identify the prominent forms of idea art.

*Conceptualism *Lettrism *Duchampism

Identify the types of art that are considered to be illustrations.

*Folk art *Popular art *Kitsch *Propaganda

Which of these are famous tap dancers?

*Ginger Rogers *Fred Astaire *Eleanor Powell

Which of the following are true of Francis Ford Coppola's image choices in The Godfather films?

*He chooses frames that eventually make an interesting still photograph. *He makes use of asymmetry to accent movement.

Works of art including ______ and ______ deal with spiritual values.

*Hopkins's "Pied Beauty" *Michelangelo's Creation of Adam

The fundamental categories of artlike creations include which of the following?

*Illustration *Performance Art *Decoration

Which of the following is true of the connections between theology and the humanities?

*In ancient times, theology was studied separately from the humanities. *In modern times, theology is often placed with the humanities.

The specialty of the Pilobolus and Momix dance companies involves placing moving bodies in ______ positions.

acrobatic

An ______, or philosopher of art, studies a wide range of topics from the creative process, to criticism, to the role of art in society.

aesthetician

Winning several Academy Awards, Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter has been lauded as one of the great ______ films.

antiwar


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