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CSET Visual Arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Unharmonious sounds that are produced to make an unsettling effect - like in punk music and jazz
ensemble
creative expression
dissonance
spectrum
2. Artwork that does not represent the object or scene in its realistic terms
collage
mie
abstract art
area
3. The materials or methods that are used to create art - like clay - crayon - canvas - paper - cloth - paint - etc. etc.
Beethoven
polyphonic chants
media
asymmetrical painting
4. An effect that is unififed and aestheticlaly pleasing by combining colors that are similar in one or more aspects
historical and cultural context in dance/kindergarten
focal point
color harmony
lied
5. Were using styluses of incised ocher dating back 100000 years ago to create works
orchestra
Claude Monet
stasis
protohumans (ancesetors of humans)
6. A major orchestral piece with solo voices and chorus
chroma
focal point
corps de ballet
oratorio
7. A system of loud - colorful improvs from 16th Century Italy using stock characters (basic characters)
8. The distance between each note
realism
interval
attitude
spectrum
9. The amount of light and dark areas in a composition. Can be used for showing opaque: the limitation of light - not transparent or transluscent
pantomine
territary colors
props
value
10. An outline or profile of an object
string instruments
square dancing
shape
contour
11. Children express emotions through movement - learn improv to respond to music or oral prompts
movement
complementary colors
creative expression in dance/primary grades
harmony
12. A devie used to allow one color or tone to merge with another
run - through
blending
Artistic perception in dance/fourth graders
cakewalk
13. A leap from one leg to another
pageant
overlapping objects
lied
grand jete
14. A stage that juts out to the audience so it can viewed from three sides - like the fashion runway
director
force/energy
protagonist
thrust stage
15. Originally banned because it involved couples touching each other - spread across Europe and then across the Americas
waltz
improvisation
form
crosshatch
16. Most known composers of the 20th Century
Stravinsky - Cage - and Glass
MUSIC
diagonal lines
mystery plays
17. Understanding the time - place - and context of artworks. Important for written response
pacing
antagonist
tempo
historical and cultural context
18. The particular noteon which a scale begins and ends - to be able to name the key - look at the first note on the piece
entrechat
tempo
syncopation
key
19. ABCDEFG
motivation
there are eight notes in an octave
syncopation
media
20. Plays that focused on the right vs. wrong scenario that featured an Everyman
dissonance
dress rehearsal
clavischord
morality plays
21. Combination of tone that creates a quality of relaxation
transluscent
force/energy
consonance
creative drama
22. The final step before a production in which the play is rehaersed with costumes and makeup and full staging with full stage crew
dress rehearsal
solfege
shape
shade
23. A music for Catholic services
stasis
working leg
mass
polyphony
24. Step of two which is a classical ballet move
cave art in Europe and Australia
subject
pas de deux
syncopation
25. A large section of lengthy composition
polyphony
still - life
aesthetic valuing in dance
movement
26. Space that establishes objects relative positions in art
overlapping objects
historical and cultural context in dance/second grade
diagonal lines
basic positions
27. Lines that suggest strength in art
fugue
flamenco
vertical lines
woodwind instruments
28. Commercial theater that took over US after WWII and named after a NY boulevard that runs through a Manhattan theater district with long runs of a single play
sense memory
Broadway Theater
catharsis
indistinct drawing
29. (space that is not used in art). Objects surrounded by this space like an apple on a white canvas) emphasize the object painted (the apple)
improvisation
beat
dissonance
negative space
30. A very fast tempo
two - dimensional
syncopation
presto
drama
31. An element of dance. the series of horizontal planes rising one above another - for example - in ballet - there are multiple levels because there is leaping and lifts
assemblage
tempo
levels
transluscent
32. A drawing tha t does not have the same image on both sides
asymmetrical painting
there are eight notes in an octave
noh
aesthetic valuing in dance/third graders
33. The way that opposites (dark vs light - black vs white) are portrayed within an artwork
director
protohumans (ancesetors of humans)
contrast
antagonist
34. Theater was to originate from Aristotle with clear and simple plotting and strong characters. were usually done in five acts and avoid violence
Aristototelian theater
choreography
tempo
informal theater
35. The speed of the beats and how fast they come one after another
straight line
Beethoven
tempo
value
36. characteristic comedy from English Restoration for its glittering language - salacious plots and frequently debaucherous characters
corps de ballet
pas de deux
Restoration comedy
value
37. An element of dance. formally measured in meter - including body rhthyms like heartbeat - breath or human emotions - considerations include how long the dance lasts - rhythm - regular vs. irregular - in dance
aesthetic valuing in dance
mystery plays
movement
time
38. The result of mixing a pure color and black
minuet
polyphonic chants
shade
relief
39. Combination of tone that produces qualtiy of tension
shade
dominance
color
dissonance
40. The particular arrangement of form - colors - lines - and other elements in a painting
composition
commedia dell'arte
gospel music
projection
41. The arrangement of colors as they are refracted into a rainbow by a prison
arabesque
creative expression in dance/primary grades
spectrum
gradation
42. Parallel lines crossing other parallel lines creating value and texture
chroma
crosshatch
stock company
historical and cultural context
43. European artist who reached his height in the early 19th Century and pioneered the Romantic style
distortion
protagonist
Beethoven
aesthetic valuing
44. Type of stage named after aan arch that frames the actors as you look at the stage - most auditoriums have this kind of stage - the audience is looking directly at the performers
dynamics
proscendium
motivation
movement
45. Christian hymns sang by the black slaves
gospel music
lied
crosshatch
give notes
46. Colors opposite each other in the color wheel - like red - green - purple and yellow
tint
emphasis
delineation
complementary colors
47. Reading by actors who have never before spoken diologue lines of the play
analogous colors
cues
cold reading
improvisation
48. An ancient harp
lyre
stock company
delineation
director
49. Typically not intended for public viewing with any level ofpreparation by participants
focal point
informal theater
square dancing
noh
50. A work made for one or two instruments
actor's position
motif
sonata
Aristototelian theater