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These non-human primates perform rhythmic “rain dances” on tree trunks during storms.
What are bonobos and chimpanzees?
This German composer wrote the Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and St. Matthew Passion.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This civilization used dance extensively for religious festivals, funerals, and upper-class entertainment, with frescoes depicting musicians and dancers at banquets.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This type of medieval music was monophonic, vocal, religious, and often attributed to Pope Gregory the Great.
What is Gregorian chant?
This Italian city, birthplace of the Renaissance, became a hub for art, science, and dance.
What is Florence?
This 1913 ballet, composed by Igor Stravinsky and choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, depicts pagan rituals celebrating spring.
What is The Rite of Spring?
This Italian sculptor created a David in mid-action, twisting as he prepares to hurl a stone at Goliath.
Who is Gian Lorenzo Bernini?
Clytemnestra explores the queen’s grief and vengeance after her husband sacrifices their daughter during this legendary conflict.
What is the Trojan War?
By some estimates, 40% of Europeans died from it in the Middle Ages.
What is the bubonic plague?
A dance that traveled from Latin America to Europe, becoming a stylized Baroque form, eventually slowed down and associated with Spain.
What is the sarabande?
The premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris provoked this chaotic reaction from the audience.
What is a riot?
This 17th-century French king appeared as Apollo in the lavish Ballet de la Nuit.
Who is Louis XIV?
Europeans in the Renaissance attempted to recreate the music and dance of this fallen civilization, though the original tradition had largely been lost.
What is Ancient Rome?
This large political entity’s collapse in 476 AD led to the fragmentation of Europe and the loss of much ancient music knowledge.
What is the Western Roman Empire?
What is "Renaissance"?
Honeybees communicate the direction and distance to nectar sources through this “dance.”
What is the waggle dance?
Bernini designed this famous Vatican space, inviting viewers to move around his sculptures.
What is St. Peter’s Square?
The oldest complete piece of music known to us, which originated in Ancient Greece, is called this.
What is the Seikilos Epitaph?
They include vielle, hurdy-gurdy, shawm, and various small percussion.
What are medieval instruments?
Renaissance means “rebirth,” particularly of the art and ideas of this ancient civilization.
What is Antiquity (or Ancient Greece and Rome)?
This Indian rock shelter contains 30,000-year-old paintings showing humans dancing in unison.
What are the Bhimbetka rock shelters?
He was a French composer, who famously died after stabbing his foot with a conducting staff.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lully?
Martha Graham’s 1958 ballet that reimagines the legendary queen of Mycenae is called this.
What is Clytemnestra?
They were wandering musicians performing typically secular music on romantic, heroic, or humorous themes.
What are troubadours and trouvères?
That is the name of your professor.
Who is Theo Popov?