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Fine Arts Exam 2

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Post & Lintel
horizontal beams (lintels) laid across the open spaces between vertical supports (posts)
Groin Vault
In architecture, a ceiling formation created by the intersection of two tunnel or barrel vaults..
Dome
a circular vaulted roof.
Arch
a structural form taking a curved shape.

Concrete
A type of building material invented by the Romans made from lime, sand, cement and rubble mixed with water and poured or molded when wet.
Skeleton Frame
construction in which a skeletal frame work supports the building.
Flying Butress
a semi detatched buttress.
Masonry Construction
stone or brick work.
Tunnel Vault
A series of arches placed back to back to enclose a space.
Egyptian
No need for interior space, used for burials of King and Queen. Symbolic of Pharoh's eternal life.
Greek
beauty and detail in temples honor a specific God which thetemple was made for. Balance, order, perfection and unity.
Roman
Had concrete they are able to make much more complex buildings.
Gothic Renaissance
Vertical, light, made of stone, "Closer to God" based on heaven, Rose windows. No need for balance and order. Flying Butress-introducing light by removing the most masonry as possible.
Modern Architecture
Steel, changed architecture. Skeleton frame, skyscraper, form over function.
Renaissance
Italian renaissance-
balance, order, mathematics, bring back domes/temple facades..
Timbre
The quality of a tone that distinguishes it from other tones of the same pick.
Oratorio
In music, a semi dramatic work without acting scenery, or costumes often on a religious theme for orchestra choir and soloists.
Polyphony
a texture comprising two or more independant melodic lines sounded together.
Symphony
An extended musical composition for orchestra usually consisting of three or four movements.
Concerto
An extended composition for orchestra and one or more soloists, typically in three movements. Fast, slow, and fast.
Monophony
A texture comprising a single melodic tune.
Harmony
the arrangement and progression of chords.
Fugue
Polyphonic composition in which a theme or themes are stated successively in all voices.
Recitative
a vocal line that imitates the rhymes and pitch fluctuations of speech and often serving to lead into an aria.
Pitch
the quality of a sound in its highness or lowness which is governed by a specific number of vibrations per second.
Aria
a highly dramatic solo vocal peice with musical accompaniment as in a opera, oratorio and cantata.
Tempo
The rate of speed at which a composition is performed.
Homophony
a texture characterized by chordal development and melody.
Gregorian chant
in music, an unaccompanied, vocal, monophonic, and consonant liturgical chant.
Serialism
a mid twentieth century type of composition based on the twelve tone system in serialism the techniques of twelve tone system are used to orgranize musical dimensions other than pitch, for example, rhythm dynamics and tone color.
Baroque
Marked typically by complexity elaborate form, and appeal to the emotions.
Romanticism
A philosiphy as well as a style in all of the arts and literature, dating to the late eighteenth through nineteenth centuries. Sought the subjective and the colorful reflecting great diversity.
Impressionism
A mid to late nineteenth century style originating it freely challenges traditional tonality with new tone colors.
jazz
a form of music native to american and calling on the africans american heritage characterized by strong, flexible rhythms, syncopation and improvisation.
Madrigal
A secular part song, originating in Italy. For two or three unaccompanied voices.
Novel
a fictional prose narrative of considerable length.
Short Stories
Short fictional works focusing on unity of characterization theme and effect, as differentiated from more expansive narrative forms.
Poetry
seeks to convey vivid lucid imaginative sense of expierience. Uses condensed language selected for its sound, suggestive power and meaning..divided into three different types:
narrative, dramatic, lyric.
Character
A fictional person or the driving psychological makeup of a fictional person.
Biography.
a type of nonfiction the subject of which is the life of an individual.
Point of view
The perspective from which a story is related to the reader or viewer.
Rhyme
An echoing by two or more words with similar sounding final syllables.
Plot
structure comparing crisis, climax, exposition compiliation and denouncement foreshadowing discovery and reversals.
Theme
The dominant idea of a work of art, film,dance and literature.
Metaphor
Figure of speech that substitutes one word for another suggesting likeness between them.
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
Assonance
The resemblance of sounds, especially vowels in stressed syllables.
Consonance
Repetition of similar or the same consonants. A feeling of a comfortable relationship.
Meter
A systematically arranged and measured rhythm in verse. also in literature, a fixed metrical pattern or a verse form.

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