Art History Quiz 3

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Lighting Designer

Back 1

Responsible for stage illumination

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Lintrel

Back 2

Beam spanding two upright posts

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Liturgical Drama

Back 3

Medieval play in a church org. didactic

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Madrigal

Back 4

A secular polyphonic composition

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Major

Back 5

Tonality of a complication; 7 tone scale

Front 6

Mass

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Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church

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Melodrama

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A simplistic sentimental storyline

Front 8

Melody

Back 8

Serious of 7 tones, arranged horizontally

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Meter

Back 9

Rhythymic organization of music

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Mime

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Characters or modes by gestures

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Minaret

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Prayer tower connected to a moslem mosque

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minor

Back 12

tonality based on a minor scale

Front 13

modern

Back 13

recent style associated with the 29th century

Front 14

modes

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tones arranged in a scale that forms the basis for a composition

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monophony

Back 15

a single line of music

Front 16

Montage

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superimposed photoaphic images

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Mosaic

Back 17

Images made from stone or glass. Fragments pressed into masonry

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Mosque

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Moslem house of prayer

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Motet

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Polyphonic sacred vocal composition

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Musical Theatre

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American combination of theatre & music

Front 21

narrative film

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film that tells a story

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open, free

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no external form is applied to the music

Front 23

opera

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music drama/music dominates dialog

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Oratorio

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sacred vocal composation/orchestrated

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Orchestra

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ensemble of winds, strings, brass, percussion

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Ostinato

Back 26

persistently repeated rhythmic figure

Front 27

overture

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concert piece for orchestra/opening of opera or musical

Front 28

Pogada

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buddhist temple with several levels

Front 29

Perspective

Back 29

Depicting spatial relationships on a flat surface

Front 30

piano forte

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literally "soft/loud" on modern piano

Front 31

plot

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storyline or plan

Front 32

polyphony

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composition with many equal parts

Front 33

polyrhythm

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multiple rhythms occuring simultaneous

Front 34

post-modern

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electic style using older forms in a contemporary context

Front 35

prelude

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composition for keyboard or opening musical theatre

Front 36

primitive

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artists who are self taught

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producer

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preson responsible for financing productions

Front 38

program music

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textual reference to a piece of music

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protagonist

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leading character in a theatrical production

Front 40

ragtime

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jazz style/regular rhythms/syncopation

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raked stage

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stage floor with back higher than front

Front 42

recitative & aria

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words recited on pitch with melodic extended air

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relief

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sculpture projecting from backstage beam

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reliquary

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receptable for religous relic

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renaissance

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historical era between 1400 and 1699

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retalbo

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religious altar panel in a church

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rhythm

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movement of uniform or patterned recurrence

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ride-rhythm

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repeated rhythm played by a drum or a cymbal to keep time

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riff

Back 49

melodic fragment repeated by a group (usually jazz)

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rising action

Back 50

major focus of a plot development

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romantic

Back 51

style emphasizing emotion free imagination

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rondo

Back 52

musical form with three different sections

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scale

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An arrangement of seven tons systematically from A to G