Visual Arts DanceDramaMusicLiterature
Art that looks as if it contains no recognizable form but you can make out some of it’s subject matter.
What is abstract?
A painting that is done in tones of one color in addition to the main hue.
What is monochromatic?
A water based paint that has a polymer binder and dries to a permanent covering?
What is Acrylic?
The property of a color that refers to the brightness or dullness of a color.
What is Intensity?
Known as the study of “the beautiful” in art.
What is aesthetics?
All the actions the body can make.
What is movement vocabulary?
What the body is doing which includes locomotor and nonlocomotor.
What are actions?
Symbols that represent movements.
What are motif symbols?
Body placement or posture; proper alignment lessens body strain and promotes dance skills.
What is alignment?
The grouping of beats in a recurring pattern?
What is Metric Rhythm?
A group of singers.
What is a Chorus?
The quality of a room in respect to transmission of sound.
What is Acoustics?
The movement to music in a play.
What is choreography?
The core of a theatre piece: the sense of forward movement created by the sense of time and/or the physical and psychological motivation of characters.
What is Action?
Putting together all facets of a character.
What is Characterization?
An unaccompanied vocal music?
What is A capella?
The act of inventing or creating music or the result of this creation.
What is compose?
Means “to the finish”.
What is Al fine.
Meter in which a measure consists of four beats and a quarter note has value of one beat.
What is common time?
The lowest female voice or unchanged boy’s voice.
What is Alto?
An important characteristic of American Indian literature.
What is “it was originally written but handed down orally”?
The main purpose of Patrick Henry’s speech.
What is “to persuade his fellow delegates to fight against the British”?
The best definition of the word “crucible” as it applies to the play.
What is a severe test or trial?
The setting of “The Crucible”.
What is Salem, Massachusetts, 1692?
The Salem witch trials were probably NOT motivated by this.
What is the fear of Indian attacks?