This is when you make educational guesses, based on inferences in the script, about the life and motivations of your character from birth to present day.
What is character analysis?
100
Study it in chronological order
How should you study art history?
100
Classical musicians looked back to the simple, uncluttered architecture of ancient...
What is Greece?
100
Solo Voice
What is seen as the best means of communication during the Baroque Era?
100
The Renaissance began here before it moved Northward through Europe.
What is Italy?
200
This type of play includes the ruin of a major character. The Greeks believed it was because of fate.
What is Tragedy?
200
The impulse to create
What is one thing all artists have in common?
200
Often referred to as the "Father of the Symphony"
Who is Haydn?
200
Solo parts in an orchestra alternate with a group of instruments
What is concerto style?
200
Renaissance composers tied their text to this.
What is poetry?
300
This type of play is similar to a farce in that it pays no attention to human values, as the objective is to give a thrill instead of a laugh. This is often good entertainment, but never any literary value.
What is melodrama?
300
They get information FROM the works of art they are studying
Where do art critics get their information on the work of art they are studying?
300
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart enjoyed to write this style of music above all.
What is opera?
300
People will often refer to the Baroque Era using these words.
What is grand and pompous?
300
This composer is known for his madrigals.
Who is Thomas Weelkes?
400
This type of play is described as being a lighter drama in which the leading characters overcome the difficulties which temporarily beset them.
What is comedy?
400
Defined as a branch of philosophy concerned with identifying the criteria that are used to understand, judge, and defend judgements about works of art.
What are aesthetics?
400
Music of this era is often described using these terms.
What is simple and easy to understand?
400
This composer was one of the first composers to truly infuse the meaning of text with feeling.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
400
An example of this is when a singer sings a very high note on the word "star" and a very low note on "valley."
What is word painting?
500
The first stage in Greece is compared to this type of stage today.
What is Theatre in the Round?
500
Examples of this are pencils, charcoal, and clay.
What are mediums?
500
A new middle class emerged in the Classical Era and thus the demand for these types of concerts.
What are small concerts?
500
The Baroque Era ended in 1750, essentially with the death of this composer.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
500
This is one of the first operas ever written by Claudio Monteverdi in 1607.