Music Basics
This is the broadest definition of music: “_____ organized in time.”
What is sound?
This is the steady underlying pulse of most music.
What is the beat?
This Roman author analyzed art in Natural History and is considered an early art historian.
Who is Pliny the Elder?
This is the most basic element of art, defined as the path of a point moving through space.
What is a line?
This art process involves marking on a surface with a tool such as pencil or charcoal.
What is drawing?
This New York-based group depicted gritty urban life and helped spark American Modernism.
What is the Ashcan School?
These are the four properties of a single musical sound: pitch, duration, volume, and _____.
What is timbre?
A series of successive pitches perceived as a coherent whole is called this.
What is a melody?
This Renaissance author compiled The Lives of the Artists and helped develop the idea of artistic genius.
Who is Giorgio Vasari?
A cube is an example of this three-dimensional element of art.
What is a form?
This process transfers an image from a prepared surface (like wood or metal) onto paper.
What is printmaking?
This 1913 event shocked American audiences with radical European art.
What is the Armory Show?
This Italian word for “cheerful” is used to describe a fast tempo.
What is Allegro?
This term describes how beats are grouped into patterns of strong and weak beats.
What is meter?
This German Enlightenment scholar emphasized studying stylistic development in historical context.
Who is Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
This term describes the area around objects (as opposed to the positive space they occupy).
What is negative space?
This is the application of pigment to a surface such as canvas or wood.
What is painting?
This art movement in NYC used absurdity and chance to challenge traditional art.
What is New York Dada?
The smallest interval used in Western music is this, equal to the distance between two adjacent keys on a piano.
What is a half step (or semitone)?
The three most common scales are major, natural minor, and this type of minor that raises the 7th scale degree.
What is the harmonic minor scale?
This 20th-century movement sought to make art history more inclusive by highlighting women and underrepresented groups.
What is feminist art history (or feminist revision of art history)?
This technique uses fog, smoke, and distance to make objects appear lighter and less detailed.
What is aerial (atmospheric) perspective?
This art form can be freestanding “in the round” or carved in relief from a background.
What is sculpture?
This photographer and gallery owner promoted modern art through his 291 Gallery.
Who is Alfred Stieglitz?
This term describes the set of seven pitches that forms the “world” of a piece of music.
What is a key?
This is the smallest identifiable recurring musical idea, often just a few notes long.
What is a motive?
These are the three academic disciplines most closely related to art history.
What are anthropology, history, and sociology?
This system uses converging lines and vanishing points to create depth on a flat surface.
What is linear perspective?
This art form is described as the design of space and the arrangement of forms to enclose space for human use.
What is architecture?
This American artist painted I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold in 1928.
Who is Charles Demuth?