Humanities Mid Term
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- folk dance
- a group of dances performed to traditional music that identifies a specific culture
- line
- a mark or stroke long and proportion toits breadth made with a pen, pencil, tool etc
- art
- the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful appealing, or of more than ordinary significance
- novel
- a lengthy and complex fictional prose narrative dealing imaginatively with the human condition using a connected series of events
- Rudolf Nureyev
- ballet dancer
- Alfred Steiglitz
- American photographer and was the principal american force behind the recognition of photography as a fine art
- theater
- a place for housing dramatic presentations, stage entertianments or movide
- narrative film
- film that tells a story
- dance
- to move ones feet and body rhythmically in a pattern of steps to music
- prespective
- a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surfce
- William Faulkner
- American auther and Nobel prize winner
- poetry
- a work designed to convey a vivid and imaginative service expeirence through the use of condensed language
- editing
- the compositon of a finished work from various shots and sound tracks
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- composer and organist, secular works for choirs was responsible for the Baroque period
- concerto
- musical composition for orchestra and one or more soloist
- comedy
- play or movie of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending
- short story
- a brief fictional prose narrative usually concerning a single effect protrayed on a single episode
- post-and-lintel
- a structural system in which horizontal pieces are held up by vertical columns similar to post and bean structure
- color
- in visual art, the appearance of surfaces in terms of hue, value and intensity in music, tone in literature the vividness or variety of emotions
- symphony
- extended musical composition for orchestra with 3 or 4 movement
- biography
- the story of the life of an individual
- composition
- the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole
- architecture
- the profession designing buildings, open areas, communities and other artificial constructions
- music
- the are of sound in time tat expresses ideas and emotions in signigicant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody and harmony
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- German symphony composer and pianist
- aesthetice
- the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly etc. as applicable to the fine arts
- sculpture
- a form of art or a three dimensional artwork
- documentary film
- presents its subject factually often with interviews and narration
- fiction
- in literature a work created from the imagination of the writer
- tragedy
- a serious drama
- Auguste Rodin
- remarkable sculptor of "the thinker"
- modern dance
- concert dance relying on emotional use of the body as apposed to formalized movement
- low relief
- figures and forms project only slightly from the background
- Opera
- extended drama composition in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompianment
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- the greatest musical genius 16 operas 41 symphonies 27 piano
- flying butress
- a semi detatched structure built agains a wall, vault or arch for reinforcing support
- protagonist
- leading actor or personage in a play or narrative work
- high relief
- figures portrude by at least half their depth
- Martha Graham
- pioneer of modern dance
- ballet
- a classical forma tradition based on a set of movements, actions and positions
- humanities
- the study of classical languages & literature
- Robert Frost
- American poet
- sophocles
- greek dramatist
- painting
- a picture or design excuted in paints
- arch
- a structural form taking a curved shape
- photography
- a simplification of reality that substitutes two-dimensional images for the three- dimensional images of life.
- antagonist
- adversary of the leading actor
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- most original artist
- Shakespeare
- English poet and playwright
- media
- the means of communication as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines that reach or influence people widely