Photography
The first non-permanent camera.
What is the camera obscura?
A single melodic line.
What is monophony.
The form of literature that uses rhythm, rhyme, musical quality, or intensely artistic structure to evoke meaning
What is poetry?
A type of theater that employs singing and instrumentation.
What is musical theater?
This term originally referred to the flexible plastic that images were photographed on but has come to describe a movie
What is film?
Frenchman responsible for creating the first photograph.
Who is Joseph Nicéphore Niépce?
Mutliple melodic lines.
What is polyphony?
Language written or spoken in its ordinary, natural flow and grammatical structure
What is prose?
Theatrical works based on historical narratives and mostly dealing with political events such as the rise or fall of monarchs, war between nations, or political revolts.
What are history plays?
By 1927, inventors figured out how to make these by pairing audio and picture.
What are talkies?
This photographer took pictures of the first moving object.
Who is Eadward Muybridge?
This type of music is synonymous with the instrument the harpsichord.
What is Baroque music?
A literary theme in which a first-person narrator’s credibility is compromised
What is an unreliable narrator?
One important benefit of theater in ancient Greece.
What is catharsis?
A process of capturing color on the film rather than handcoloring individual film.
What is technicolor?
Photography style that is meant to capture real people and real events.
What is documentary photography?
This scale is believed to be more neurologically intuitive.
What is the pentatonic scale?
Departure, initiation, and return are key components of this.
What is the Hero's Journey?
This means that the viewers willingly avoid critical thinking or logic in order to enjoy the staged performance.
What is the suspension of disbelief?
The most successful inventors of the motion picture camera also saw the commercial possibilities of movies.
Who are the Lumiere Brothers?
One of the first times photography was used for a documentary campaign.
What is the Great Depression?
This stresses an off-beat rhythm that
contributes to the lively tempo.
What is syncopation?
This novel by Leo Tolstoy is an example of serialization.
What is Anna Karenina?
This musical featured a full cast of classically trained Black singers, featuring folk style music
What is Porgy and Bess?
One of the first ever moving pictures (or movie) devices was this.
What is a zoetrope?