The Language of Music
The steady pulse underlying most music is called this.
What is the beat?
This genre served as a central thread through the 1920s and early 1930s, embodying the era’s dynamism.
What is jazz?
The path of a point moving through space is this fundamental element of art.
What is line?
This period in American history, also called the Jazz Age, was marked by artistic energy and modernization.
What are the 1920s and early 1930s?
This late 19th-century movement sought to establish photography as a fine art.
What is Pictorialism?
The academic discipline that studies the cultural context and meaning of visual works.
What is art history?
This Italian term for “cheerful” indicates a lively tempo.
What is Allegro?
The blues, which preceded jazz, influenced its style and emotional expression. What does the term “blues” originally refer to?
What is a style of music that expresses a state of mind or mood, often sadness?
This term describes the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
This photographer and painter’s Criss-Crossed Conveyors celebrated modern industry.
Who is Charles Sheeler?
Imogen Cunningham’s early essays argued that photography required the skills of an artist, mechanic, and this profession.
What is a scientist?
This Renaissance author’s Lives of the Artists is considered an early art history text.
Who is Giorgio Vasari?
The combination of two or more pitches sounding simultaneously.
What is harmony?
In The Stampede (1926), this bandleader pioneered the big band sound that inspired Duke Ellington.
Who is Fletcher Henderson?
When artists mix a color with white, they create this lighter hue.
What is a tint?
The Ford Motor Company system that inspired Sheeler’s work emphasized efficient assembly-line production.
What is Fordism?
Photographers like Cunningham and Coburn helped connect global artistic communities through this medium.
What are photographic magazines and exhibitions?
The German scholar who introduced stylistic analysis tied to historical context.
Who is Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
When music has no steady tempo or discernible beat, it is called this.
What is unmetered?
A common feature in jazz arrangements where instruments “talk” back and forth.
What is call and response?
Developed during the Renaissance, this mathematical technique creates the illusion of space using vanishing points.
What is linear perspective?
Tina Modotti’s Hands Resting on a Tool symbolized solidarity with this social group.
Who are agricultural workers (campesinos)?
The term “musique concrète” refers to early experiments with this form of sound art.
What is tape or electronic music composition?
Feminist historians helped expand the field of art history to be more this.
What is inclusive and multicultural?
The speed of the beat can gradually slow down or speed up, known by these two Italian terms.
What are ritardando and accelerando?
The saxophonist whose solo in The Stampede became an archetype of jazz improvisation.
Who is Coleman Hawkins?
The illusion of depth created when distant objects appear lighter and less detailed.
What is aerial (or atmospheric) perspective?
Aaron Douglas’s Let My People Go was inspired by biblical liberation and this musical tradition.
What are Black spirituals?
This instrument, invented by LĂ©on Theremin, could be played without touch by manipulating electric fields.
What is the theremin?
The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and artistic expression.
What is aesthetics?