Art & Arch 10 Midterm Review

02/11/2014

12th bar blues early form of jazz NOT ON EXAM

40 questions
90 secs on each question (projected and read aloud, ABCD)
modern and forte piano
modern
o more notes
o 61 keys +
o weights more
o designed for big hall
forte
o plays softer
o weighs less
o intimacy
tradeoff between intimacy and sound as halls grew bigger
o sacrifice something to gain something
one isnt better than another
just different
key
Beethoven key of c minor
o very emotional, in your face

o stormy
diff b/t major and minor (acoustic)
major
o acoustically more stable
o happy
o triumphant, military
minor
o acoustically less stable
o sad
western music diff
western cultural imperialism
has harmony, built on harmony
o more that one voice at a time
1000AD
Schubert & shumaun
Flowers
o Bouquets, added joy to a feast
o Always in full bloom
o 17-18th century
botany begins to document life of flowers with their death
Schubert

o Rose on the heath

o Relations b/t the sexes
Shumaunn romantic era
o Flower Piece
o Major mode, yet sad
o Enhancement of intensity of emotions
Diff b/t violin
Older
o Oblong bow, tail straight up
o Intimate, not a big sound
Modern
o Tilted, strings go over bridge
o String the strings tighter and wont destructs
o Louder (tension greater on bows)
violin sonata
c minor sonata
kreuzer sonata
o famous violinist
o repetition, going away and coming home
What we did
Drumming and tap

o Nicholas brothers
o Call-and-response tap dancing (African tribes)
Communication, oral tradition
o Anisa and arron 8 count (tap dancer and drummer)
Acting with Dweyer
Beethoven
Social dance
Film and theater acting
chickerry piano vs. Steinway piano
Steinway won because they had better marketing strategy (celebrity
endorsements)
Chickerry couldnt keep up
Marketing is everything
Erard
Famous piano/harp
First piano - Harpsicord (1700s Baroque)
Began in Italy
Plectrum
o Plucks the string to make sharp clear sounds
o Plays the same volume
No soft or loud
Cristoffery invented modern piano

 How the piano works

Escapement
o Activates and kills it
o Hammer smashes the key but comes back up
o Early piano-intimate, direct, but less leverage
o Modern-louder, not as soft, more leverage
Listz
Invented the first piano recital
He was the main event
Demanded complete silence
Waltzing cat - triple meter
3 counts in waltz music
strauss popularized meter, The Waltz King
March douple - meter
4 counts
mich jager
progression
o 4 chord
1, 4 minor, 4 major, 5
o sweet
o irony London boys choir

o a woman trying to get drugs at a part

o saintly vs. innocence
Amen chord
4 chord
16th century
this harmony places us inside of church
dan fastique
o amen chord played twice
berlioz
a young, love sick man rejected by gf takes opium, dreams that he
killed her and his next movement he get executed, goes to church to
get peace
Amen cadence was used here
vocal production
how to make good sounds
o breath comes from diaphragm
o bend over a little bit
diff between trickle down and bubble up
trickle down
o dances were made by kings and spread to commoners
o culture dispensed that offspring from a wealthy land owner learns
from the most prestigious schools
o learn what they have to
o dress proper

 bubble up
o starts at commoners and goes up to elite
o more physicality
o learn what we want (tap, waltz, social dance)
o dress how you want
plagal cadence/sub dominance/amen cadence=mean the same thing
period of music
George bridgetower
Premiered Kreuzer sonata (black) violinist
Bff with Beethoven
Beethoven believed that bridgetower was hitting on the girl he liked
Friendship strained
Beethoven appreciated his talent
Chords
5-1 or 4-1
o 5-1 big jumps
o 4-1 soft, floating like a cloud
mike daisy
critique on theatre
modern America theatre sucks because its been corporatized
freeze dried actors

 acting should be with people who know each other for a long time
Dweyer
12th night
reverend gives the speech that we are 2 hours marching closer to our
grave
moving through time towards death
realizing that our time is fixed, not infinite
occasion makes it great macbeth
o wants to be the king
o kills the king
o now hes the king, but now his wife is gone
o his entire ambition was pointless and wasted: full and sound of
fury full of nothing
o make life signify joy and happiness
o meaning of life
fespus
o greek that was the first actor
o he played the king, instead of telling the story he became the king
o became someone different
Goethe
Wrote about a woman who was executed for killing her child
Could not accept that any mother thats not under complete stress
would kill her child
Notion of the perfect man

 FAUST wager between god and the devil

Faust seduces the mother to kill her child
Faust was a good man, but gets corrupted
Berlioz
Goes to church to get out of opium induced stage (amen cadence)
Louis XIV (baroque)
Greatest dancer of the kingdom
Dance was used to negotiate power
To get on good terms with this king, you had to be the best dancer
Minuet how people learned to get to know each other, w/ chaste
Dance in America becomes sexual liberation
19th and 20th century America was all about etiquette (culturally determined
thing)
Roman comedians NOT ON EXAM
Beethovens intention in 5th symphony
Triumph
I can face adversity, and I will triumph
Louis catoris came before berlioz
Waltz before tango
Timeline
1150-1400 Medieval
1400-1600 Renaissance
1600-1750 Baroque
1750-1830 Classical
1830-1920 Romantic
1920-Present Modern
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decibels
measure sound intensity