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In Rococo art, what are the general subjects?
Romantic encounters and pursuit of pleasure, the subject matter is always intimate.
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In Rococo art what are the general motifs?
Shells, ribbons, scrolls, cartouches, curved lines.
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In Rococo art what is the general color pallet like?
Pastel colors
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In Rococo art what is the lighting generally like?
Soft or filmy.
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What are characteristics of a Grand Manor Portrait Painting?
Controlled pose, Interesting background, full body.
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What was Neo-Classicism influenced by? (5 things)
- - Recent discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii
- - Political models of Greece and Rome
- - Enlightenment emphasis on rationality, geometry, balance
- - Popularity of classical texts
- - Popularity of the grand tour
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What are some general characteristics of Neo-Classicism?
- - Classical ideal forms
- - Classical architecture
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What did Winckelmann say about Neo-Classicism?
"Noble simplicity and quiet grandeur"
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What did Diderot say about Neo-Classicism?
- "Make virtue adorable and vice repugnant"
- It was a moral tool to promote virtue.
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What are the movements of a classical symphony?
- - Opening faster movement, sonata allegro form
- - Slower movement, perhaps adagio
- - Minuet and trio
- - Faster movement, allegro, rondo, or sonata
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What are the main elements in the Sonata Allegro form (First movement)?
- - Exposition
- - Development - elaboration and contrast of themes
- - Recapitulation - resolution of harmonies and themes (Altered repeat of the exposition)
- - Theme A/Theme B
- - Dominant key/tonic key
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What are the main elements of Minuet and trio?
- ABA
- Example: Mozart ein klein whatever
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Who were important authors/works in the Neo-Classicism period?
- Augustans
- Jonathan Swift
- Candide/Voltaire
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What were the Augustans known for?
Poets who admired and modeled themselves on the poets of anceint rome
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What was Jonathan Swift known for?
A modest proposal, a satire about eating irish children.
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What were the general characteristics of Romantic art? (6 things)
- Overall break with rigid structure of neo classicism
- expression of personal feelings/focus on individual/self analysis
- Love of the fantastic and the exotic
- Interest in nature
- Nationalism
- Eternal feminine
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What time period is Beethoven associated with?
Romanticism
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What are 4 important things to remember about Beethoven?
- Became deaf in the height of his career
- Trained in classical tradition
- Emotional music, perhaps autobiographical
- Wrote symphony no 3 in E flat that was originally dedicated to Napoleon
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What are some characteristics for an Art Song of Lieder?
- Strophic vs. Through Composed
- The music changes with each verse
- They were different than hymns that repeat the same music with each verse
- It was music written for a poem
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What is an example of an Art song/lieder?
Schubert's Erlkonig
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What is it called when music is written for a poem?
Art Song or Lieder
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What is program music?
Music that doesn't have words, but the story is told through instruments
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What is an example of program music?
Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique
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What is Bel Canto?
Beautiful singing, applies to opera
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What is Idee fixe or Leitmotive?
A clip of music that is identified with a certain character.
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What is the most prominent feature of Romanticism in music?
Nationalism
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Which composer is associated with Gesamtkunstwerk?
Wagner
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What is Gesamtkunstwerk?
Uniting music, painting, poetry and movement
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Who were some artists associated with Romantacism in literature?
- Wordsworth
- Byron
- Shelley
- Keats
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What works are associated with Wordsworth?
- Daffoldils
- The world is too much with us
- My heart leaps up when I behold
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What works are associated with Byron?
- Bright be the place of thy soul
- we'll go no more aroving
- When we two parted
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What works are associated with Shelley?
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What works are associated with Keats?
- Bright Star
- whne I have fears...
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What are characteristics of Sturm and Drang Literature?
- Storm and stress or storm and urge
- German
- Nationalistic influence and folk elements
- Restlessness and passion
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What was Marie Taglioni known for with Romantacism Ballet?
Point technique - dancing on your toes
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What was the Ballet Blanc?
- It is the pure classical for of ballet
- everyone is in white
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Who was the founder of realism in art?
Courbet
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What are the general characteristics of impressionism?
- Sought to reproduce the way an image first appears to the eye
- Focus on light and color
- Painted sketch feel
- Broken color technique
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What are the 3 types of paintings tha Degas made?
- Ballets
- Real People (Not enhanced)
- Horses
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Why was the Impressionist artist Cassatt significant?
- She got impressionist paintings out in the world
- She was a girl
- She was American
- Her subject matter was almost always women and children
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What are the characteristics of impressionist music? (8)
- Broken chords
- ABA form
- Dissonance
- The beat is varied, no pulsating beat
- Polytonality
- Moods were vague and evanescent
- It was a reaction against Wagner
- Fragmented phrases
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What is the 12 tone technique?
- Tone row
- Inversion
- Retrograde
- Retrograde Inversion
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What is Sprechstimme?
Voiced speech
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What are the general characteristics of Post Impressionism?
- Vivid use of color
- Thick application of paint
- Distinctive brush strokes
- Real life subject matter
- More inclined to use geometric shapes
- More use of arbitrary color
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What was post impressionism in a nutshell?
Extended impressionism but rejected limitations
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Why does Bennett like guys?
I don't know... that is a good question
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What is the main characteristic of Fauvism?
Violent difference in use of color
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What were the Fauvs often called?
Wild Beasts
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Where did expressionism take place?
Germany
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What were some general characteristics of Expressionism?
- Grouped in schools: Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter
- Concerned with emotional impact of the work
- Used bold and vibrant colors to evoke that emotion
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