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The symbol is a <
What is crescendo?
100
The technique that allows the viewer to guess at depth with a vanishing point.
What is linear perspective?
100
R. A. Fuller
Who is the Father of Eugenics?
100
This is perhaps the most famous example of a patriotic parlor song.
What is the "Star Spangled Banner"
100
This is the steady pulse that underlies most music.
What is the beat?
200
This is the distance between A and the next lower or higher A note
What is an octave?
200
An academic discipline dedicated to the study of the history of the developmental of the visual arts
What is art history?
200
Particles that are never directly observed in isolation.
What are quarks?
200
In the 1933 the "film musical" blossomed and this company economically dominated the music industry.
What is Hollywood
200
Pianists playing blues often use these notes since "bent" blues notes exist between keys of a piano. Example: E-natural, and E-Flat Hint: mashed together
What are crushed notes?
300
This category of instruments uses vibrating strings to create sound waves.
What is chordophones?
300
The use of dramatic contrasts of light and dark in painting and drawing.
What is Chiaroscuro?
300
This documentary was shown by the Resettlement Administration to support struggling victims of the Dust Bowl.
What is "The Plow that Broke the Plains?"
300
Being able to afford a piano was considered a sign of this.
What is elevated social class?
300
These are referred to as European "high art." Hint: There are 2 types of music.
What are operas and symphonies
400
An early instrument that was controlled without physically touching it.
What is a theremin
400
A pose in which a standing figure is shown with weight shifted onto one leg and the hips and legs face in a different direction from the shoulders and head
What is Contrapposto?
400
This is the rhythmic pattern of Variation 4 of "Piano Variations."
What is short-long-long or dotted?
400
Early American song was of this origin.
What is religious?
400
In scene 6 of "The Cradle Will Rock" Dauber and Yasha believe they have exclusive access to her.
Who is Mrs. Mister?
500
This is the set of accidentals at the beginning of a piece.
What is a key structure?
500
A printmaking process in which a photograph or other image is transferred or adhered to a silk of synthetic fabric that had been stretched onto a frame; the image serves as a sort of stencil, blocking out areas of the permeable fabric so that when ink s forced through the fabric using a squeegee, the images will be transferred to the paper or fabric beneath at those areas not blocked by the stenciling
What is a Screen Print?
500
This art show, held in New York in 1913, introduced composers to the modernist movement.
What is the Armory Show?
500
He grew up in India, and attended Yale and Harvard University, and wrote "I get a kick out of you."
Who is Col Porter?
500
Ben Webster's increasingly raspy timbre is known as this effect.
What is the "growl" effect?