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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. How the artist's arrangement of elements achieves equilibrium
creative expression
Bach and Handel
balance
impressionist movement
2. High - indicates when arm is raised over the head in dance
waltz
ballet
ellipse
en haut
3. An individual's signal (physical or verbal) that a response is required - an actor's cueto speak - exit - may be a line of dialogue
Chinese Opera (Peking or Beijing Opera)
off - script
intensitsy
cues
4. Person who runs performance from backstage and supervises other crew members - including set designers - makeup artists - costumers - lighting crew - sound crew - and prop supervisor
bar lines
stage manager
symphony
sweeping curved lines
5. The principal melodic motif or phrase - especially in a fugue
aesthetic valuing in dance
blocking
subject
historical and cultural context in dance/fifth graders
6. A predecessor of the piano - sounded by plucking strings
texture
actor's position
harpischord
abstract art
7. Lines that suggest strength in art
vertical lines
barre
force/energy
production values
8. Volume or clarity needed to be heard by an audience
projection
tango
vanishing point
time
9. 'The body of ballet'- the dancers who stand behind the principals and form the stage picture with their poses
corps de ballet
chord
form
actor's position
10. A stage that is meant to viewed from all different kinds of sides
arena stage (theater in the round
production values
lied
time signature
11. Typically not intended for public viewing with any level ofpreparation by participants
movement
informal theater
levels
abstract art
12. Students can evaluate dance in terms of the elements - like choreography and the impact of space - constumes and other considerations
stock company
transparent
aesthetic valuing in dance/middle school
dynamics
13. The characteristic sound of a voice or instrument
props
timbre
radial balance
stage manager
14. Social dancing performed as a couple - has origins in Carribbean Islands and African and European styles - types of dances include the mambo - the samba - meringue - and rumba - and salsa
prhasing
cave art in Europe and Australia
director
ballroom dancing
15. The underlying pulse present in most music
production values
beat
Pablo Picasso
key
16. A rhythmic effect produced when the expected rhythm pattern is deliberately upset
form
syncopation
proscendium
pantomine
17. Music made by medieval monks that had multiple harmonies and voices
polyphonic chants
commedia dell'arte
mystery plays
morality plays
18. Dances developed in the U.S.
Aristototelian theater
cool colors
foxtrot - Charleston - swing dance - twist - and western dances
interval
19. The degree of lightness or darkness with the color
subject
Broadway Theater
value
presto
20. The idea of capturing andp ortryaying scenes in the way that humans see them with movement and changing light
levels
movement
impressionist movement
shape
21. Medieval plays that focused on religion - like the sacrifice of Christ
mystery plays
gradation of color
hue
assemblage
22. The leg that is delinating movement
gradation
working leg
informal theater
historical and cultural context in dance
23. The shape - structure or organization of a piece - like unity and repetition
en bas
vertical lines
form
opus
24. Interpreting the value of art and art work. Important for written response
director
focal point
arena stage (theater in the round
aesthetic valuing
25. Green - blue - green - blue and violet when used to show wet objects
percussion instruments
diagonal lines
cool colors
square dancing
26. Students who learn about dance composition and performance make judgements and present reasoned descriptoions of aesthetic choices
gospel music
upbeat music
consonance
aesthetic valuing in dance
27. Dance - music - theater - and visual arts
motif
four arts disciplines
creative expression
tableaux
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
stage crew
balance
Broadway Theater
mie
29. Character's immediate reason for acting the way they do or saying what they say
stage manager
motivation
Social Dance
interval
30. Lines that suggest movement
pantomine
tableaux
dynamics
curved lines
31. The process of using spontaneous movement and speech to create character - mood - or situation
improvisation
movement
unity
indistinct drawing
32. The person who sees the overall actual staging of the production
advancing colors
comedy
director
turnout
33. Combination of tone that produces qualtiy of tension
dissonance
Neoclassic Drama
territary colors
barre
34. Intermediate tempo
William Shakespaere and Christopher Marlowe
motivation
moderato
polyphonic chants
35. Lines that suggest opposition in art
Theater of the Absurd
diagonal lines
symphony
prhasing
36. Rotating the leg outward from the hip so taht the feet from a straight line on the floor andtoes arefacing away from eah other
Artistic perception in dance/Kindergarten
choreography
turnout
tint
37. A play set in the coutnryside populated by nymphs - satyrs - shepherds and wandering knights with dancing and singing
blues and jazz
Mozart
production values
pastoral play
38. Children learn to respond to simple oral instruction
Artistic perception in dance/Kindergarten
beat
dance - pointe
presto
39. Space that suggests distant objects in art
indistinct drawing
churches
protagonist
linear perspective
40. The materials or methods that are used to create art - like clay - crayon - canvas - paper - cloth - paint - etc. etc.
motif
commedia dell'arte
repetitition
media
41. Extravagant and complex music made by Italian composers of the 16th century
baroque style operas
straight line
space
waltz
42. Why art flourished in the Renaissance
texture
renewed knowledge of Greek and Roman art
creative expression in dance/middle school
presto
43. characteristic comedy from English Restoration for its glittering language - salacious plots and frequently debaucherous characters
linear perspective
negative space
promenade
Restoration comedy
44. Colors that are closely related to one another - like blue - blue - green and green
run - through
Chinese Opera (Peking or Beijing Opera)
analogous colors
Claude Monet
45. Activities that are approrpriate for children that are used to develop acting skills
theatrical games
intensitsy
creative expression
radial balance
46. European artist who reached his height in the early 19th Century and pioneered the Romantic style
assemblage
Beethoven
Pablo Picasso
symphony
47. A rhythm pattern that is stressed or accented and the sounds are uneven
syncopation
horizontal lines
morality plays
foxtrot - Charleston - swing dance - twist - and western dances
48. The pattern of long and short sounds/beats in combinations of stressed and unstressed beats
subject
rhythm
chord
realism
49. Originates from European folk dancing
blending
square dancing
Artistic perception in dance/fourth graders
gospel music
50. Artwork that does not represent the object or scene in its realistic terms
abstract art
fugue
monologue
blending