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What is program music?
Music that tells has a subject/tells a story
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What is absolute music?
Music for music sake. Doesn't have a subject/story.
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What is binary music?
- AB format
- Example: I am a child of God
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What is ternary music?
- ABA format
- Example: Now let us rejoice, Israel Israel God is calling
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What is a movement?
A part of a large musical work
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What does fugue mean?
- -Flee or flight
- -The melody flies from one voice to another throughout the piece
- -Binary
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What is a Canon?
- -A round
- -Most simple Fugue
- -Voices imitate one another
- Example: Row row row your boat
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What are somethings that happens in a movement?
Fugue, Canon, Theme and Variation, and Sonata Form
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What are the types of movement forms?
Suite, Sonata, Concerto, Quartet, Symphony
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What is theme and variation?
A variation is a complete playing of the melody in different ways
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What is sonata form?
- -Also called sonata allegro or first movement
- -Granddaddy form
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What does sonata 1st movement form look like?
Exposition, development, recapitulation, and then coda
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What is exposition?
- -Contains two main themes (a, b)
- -Usually is repeated
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What is development?
- -The two melodies are developed
- -No rules
- -Bits and pieces can be used, upside down, backwards, ect.
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What is recapitulation?
- -Return to the original theme
- -No repeat
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What is a coda?
- -Latin for tail
- -Short
- -Composer drives home his theme
- -Definitie closing
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What is a suite?
- -A collection of small pieces, grouped by a central theme
- -Often highlights parts of ballets
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Who's playing in a sonata? What's it like?
- -Piano
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- -Solo instrument with piano accompaniment
3 movement: fast, slow, fast (first movement in sonata form)
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Who's playing in a concerto? What's it like?
- -Multiple movement work for solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment
- -3 movements: fast, slow, fast
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Who's playing in quartet? What is it like?
- -2 Violins
- -1 Viola
- -1 Cello
- -4 movements (first in sonata), then slow, then minuet, then rondo
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Who's playing in a symphony? What's it like?
- -Sonata for orchestra
- -4 movements, same structure as quartet
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What are the vocal forms?
Art song, opera, aria, recitative, and chorus
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What is an art song? What's it like?
- -AKA lieder
- -For solo voice with piano accompaniment
- -They are designed to show off the virtuoso talent of both the singer and the pianist
- -Strophic: Uses the same music for each verse
- -Through composed: Opposite approach
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What's an opera? What's it like?
- -One of the most powerful and most important parts of classical music
- -A story set entirely to singing
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What's an aria? What's it like?
-Soloist with orchestral accompaniment with repetition
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What is recitative? What's it like?
- -Soloist is singing with imitative speech accompanied by chords
- -Lots of words little music
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What is a chorus? What's it like?
- -Chorus written about common folk
- -Everyone is singing together
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How does a 2D artist create the illusion of depth and distance?
- -Depth is done by shadows
- -Distance is done by perspective
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What does chairoscuro mean?
- -Italian word
- -Light and shadow
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What is song form?
Verse chorus/binary
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What is a cadence?
Break or pause in the music
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What is the theme of music?
The melody
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What are the patterns of arrangement in visual art?
Horizontal, vertical, pyramidal, symmetrical, and radial
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What is horizontal pattern?
-Puts an emphasis on lines running left to right
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What is vertical pattern?
-Emphasis on an upright figure
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What is pyramidal pattern?
-Emphasis on a single triangular shape
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What is symmetrical pattern?
- -Emphasizes balance
- -Two main parts are not identical, but are in balance
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What is radial pattern?
-All major lines point to one central point
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What is golden section?
-A is to B as B is to AB
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What is the rule of thirds?
- -Like the golden section
- -Cut your picture into thirds
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What are the two types of lines?
Straight ad curved
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What does horizontal lines portray?
-Stability
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What does vertical lines portray?
-Majesty
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What does diagonal lines portray?
-Potential energy
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What does value mean?
- -It is the brightness (medium)
- -Also cost
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What are the value measurements?
- -High (white)
- -Medium (gray)
- -Low (black)
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What are the primary colors?
Red, yellow, and blue
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What can create the most colors and textures?
Oil
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What color is all the colors? What color is the absence of color?
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What is texture?
-Visual appearance of a surface
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What is perspective and what are the types of perspective?
- -The way in which artists are able to depict distance
- -Linear and aerial
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What is linear perspective?
- -Lines recede together toward vanishing point
- -Objects appear smaller over distance
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What is aerial perspective?
- -Changes in color
- -Objects in the distance appear lighter in color
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What is foreshortening?
- -Our mind fills the gap
- -Portray an object having less depth than it really does
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What are the type of lenses?
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Describe 50mm lens
Normal
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Describe 20mm lens
Wide angle
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Describe 200mm lens
Telephoto
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What is depth of field?
- -Refers to how much of your photo is in focus from front to back
- -Ability to selectively focus on just one area
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What do most digitals set as "normal" view?
33mm medium wide angle
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How does the longer the lens affect the perspective?
It flattens it
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What is aperture?
It is the hole that lets in light
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When do you have more focus with a camera?
Lower aperture
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What does bigger aperture focus better on?
A sigle thing
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What is plot?
The storyline or chain of events
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What is irony?
When you say one thing, but mean something else
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What is the theme of literature?
Underling message or moral of the story
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What is reversal of the situation?
-A change by which the action veers round to its opposite
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What is recognition?
A change from ignorance to knowledge producing love or hate
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What is thought?
The theme
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What is diction?
Word choice
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What is spectacle?
-Costumes, make up, sets, special effects
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What is a comedy?
Hero overs their opposition
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What is a tragedy?
The hero doesn't overcome their opposition
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What is a tragic flaw?
Someone in high position that falls due to a character deficiency
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What is the exposition of literature?
Explaining or introducing two characters and setting
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What is complication in literature?
Conflict
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What is the climax in literature?
- -Where all the conflict comes to a single point
- -Where things couldn't possible get worse
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What is comic relief?
Where the author releases some tension
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What is denouement?
The resolution
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How is literature written?
Exposition, complication, climax, comic relief, then denouement
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What happens in Macbeth?
Macbeth listens to witches who says he will be king and ends up killing the king and a whole bunch of people until someone finally kills him
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Who are the witches in Macbeth?
They are evil
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Who is Macbeth?
Brave, ambition is his weakness
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Who is Duncan?
Macbeth's cousin, great king
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Who is Lady Macbeth?
A hypocrite, crazy
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Who is Banquo?
Macbeth's best friend and voice of reason
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Who is Malcom?
Duncan's son
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Who is Macduff?
The guy who kills Macbeth in the story.
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