Music Composers & Compositions
Type of strongly-accented music played by military and school bands
Clue Words: "Pomp and Circumstance"
John Philip Sousa
Marches
Name this position that places one foot about 12 inches in front of the other.
Clues: ballet position
divides her weight between both feet,
turn-out
Fourth
What kind of movement doesn't transport the entire body through space?
Clues: bending, stretching, twisting, and rocking
one body part always remains in contact with the floor
Non-Locomotor
Name the Abstract Expressionist painter of Autumn Rhythm and Lavender Mist.
Clues: "Jack the Dripper."
canvases on the floor
poured enamel or aluminum paint
(JACKSON) POLLOCK
Which four Renaissance artists lent their names to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO, DONATELLO, (AND) RAPHAEL (any order)
Who composed The Four Seasons?
Clues: Baroque
taught music to orphaned girls
Red Priest
(ANTONIO) VIVALDI
Identify this modern dancer, who died when her scarf wrapped around a car's tire.
Clues: woman
first Western dancer to perform without tights or shoes.
(ISADORA) DUNCAN
Give the name of this Aaron Copland ballet.
Clues: Dancer Martha Graham commissioned this ballet
dramatizes a 19th-century Pennsylvania pioneer celebration
APPALACHIAN SPRING
Name this carbon derived from heated wood, which is also used for grilling food.
Clues: art medium
compressed, vine, and powdered
rough sketches
Charcoal
Identify this upright stand that supports a canvas.
EASEL
Name this composer of Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Clues: student of Salieri [sal-ee-AIR-ee]
Faust Symphony and Transcendental Études
(FRANZ) LISZT [LIST]
Identify the founder of the American Dance Theater.
Clues:Blues Suite and Revelations
(ALVIN) AILEY
Name this element that may be felt or may be strictly measured by a clock.
Clues: sequence of a dance's events.
Rhythm, tempo, beat, accent, and pattern
TIME
What is the strong contrast between light and darkness?
Clues: art technique
seem three-dimensional.
It heightens the drama of works
CHIAROSCURO [kee-AR-oh-SKOOR-oh]
Who was this Renaissance artist of the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Clues: artist sculpted Mary holding Jesus's body
Pietà
marble statue David.
MICHELANGELO (BUONARROTI)
Name this music genre native to Mexico.
Clues: sombreros
MARIACHI
Name this frequent dance partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn
Clues: soloist with the Kirov Ballet
choreographer of the Paris Opera Ballet
(RUDOLF) NUREYEV [noo-REY-ef]
Who was this choreographer of both the film and stage versions of West Side Story?
Clues: Fiddler on the Roof
High Button Shoes, On the Town, and Wonderful Town
(JEROME) ROBBINS
Give the name of this paint made of pigment, water, and egg yolk.
TEMPERA
Frédéric Bartholdy [bar-TOLD-ee] sculpted what artwork that stands in New York Harbor?
Clues: landmark
pounded copper sheets shaped
iron framework
Green
(THE) STATUE OF LIBERTY
What is African- American Christian music?
Clues: sacred music
hymns, spirituals, and slave work songs
Give the name of this man, who spent most of the 80s as artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre.
Clues: classical ballet
Vestris and Gorianka
defecting to the West
(MIKHAIL) [buh-RISH-nih-kawf]
Identify this 20th- century composer of Fanfare for the Common Man.
Clues: "Gun Battle" and "The Open Prairie" in his ballet Billy the Kid
"Buckaroo Holiday"
ballet Rodeo
(AARON) COPLAND
Identify this 1950s and '60s movement associated with Andy Warhol.
Clues: Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and David Hockney
POP (ART)
What was this protest of a Basque village's bombing, created by Pablo Picasso?
Clues: Spanish Republican Pavilion
World's Fair in Paris.
In black, white, and grey tones,
GUERNICA [gair-NEEK-uh]