Museums & their Cities
British Museum
Italian for “singing without musical accompaniment”
A cappella
The 8 notes of the musical scale.
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, and do
Word identifying both a room used as a photographer’s studio and a display room of a museum
Gallery
Style of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century and character- ized by the reduction of subjects into geometric structures
Cubism
Louvre
Paris
18th-19th-century German composer afflicted with deafness late in life and known for his 9 symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
A mixed voice choir contains men and women arranged S.A.T.B. Name the 4 voice ranges for which these initials stand.
Soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
New York river whose name is associated with the first group of American artists to develop a characteristic style of landscape painting
Hudson River (School)
Style of painting developed in France in the 1870’s, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors to represent the effect of light on objects
Impressionism
Guggenheim Museum
New York City
Play set to music in which the characters sing, rather than speak, all or most of their lines
Opera
the 4 families of instruments that make up a symphony orchestra. The mnemonic device “Saints Will Be Praised” may help you to name these 4 sections.
Strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.
High-temperature oven used to glaze pottery
Kiln
Art of the late 1950s and ‘60s depicting with irony such objects as soup cans
Pop Art
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
Instrument of the violin family that is held between the knees in an upright position
Cello
The different types of chamber music are distinguished according to the number of perform- ers. Name the types that have 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 performers.
Trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet, and nonet, respectively.
Piece of sculpture portraying the head, shoulders, and upper chest of a person
Bust
Impressionist method of using small dots of paint to create colors
Pointillism
Salvador Dali Museum
Saint Petersburg (Florida)
20th-century British composer and producer known for the musical The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber
the 3 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky ballets that have become classics, first produced in 1876, 1889, and 1892, respectively.
Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, respectively.
Drawing that distorts a subject’s distinctive features for a grotesque or humorous effect
Caricature
20th-century literary and artistic movement that stresses the significance of the uncon- scious and juxtaposes seemingly unrelated objects
Surrealism