For the visual art section of the exam you will be expected to be able to identify the elements and principles of art (and to make a collage illustrating one or more of these), the visual art movements (in chronological order) and artists associated with them.
VISUAL ART MOVEMENTS
ARTIST(S)
NEO-CLASSICAL
IMPRESSIONISM
POST IMPRESSIONISM
EXPRESSIONISM
CUBISM
SURREALISM
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
POP ART
POST MODERNISM
CONTEMPORARY
EXAM INFORMATION: MUSIC
| Definitions: What is....... 1) Text Painting 2) Melody 3) Tone Color 4) Harmony 5) Primitivism in music 6) Nationalism in music 7) Chance music 8) the Aesthetic of Ugliness 9) what are the names of the families of instruments in the orchestra? 10)what physical ailment did Beethoven suffer at the end of his career? Explanations: Why..... 1) why was the tape recorder the most important invention for electronic music? 2) why was electronic music criticized? 3) why is Rock and Roll and R&B the same thing in early rock music? 4) why is story telling important for acting? Describe: 1) John Cage's "prepared piano" 2) John Cage's "4 minutes and 33 seconds" Long Answer Question: * you will be asked on the exam to write two paragraphs on either Blues of Rock and Roll. You need to tell me about its origins, elements and key musicians. You will be allowed to bring in your notes on a small 5-7 card. Listening: * you will be asked to listen to some examples and identify the following time signatures 2/4,3/4, 4/4. You will need to identify instruments and you will need to identify styles of music: Romantic (Beethoven), Nationalistic, Electronic or Blues. |
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MUSIC RESOURCES ONLINE:
3/4 FLY ME TO THE MOON-TIM DEAL
4/4 Example-Every Breath You Take
BEETHOVEN ("Presto" from Symphany #9)
DVORAK (Slavonic Dance #7)
STRAVINSKY (Rite of Spring, Dance of the Earth)
JOHN CAGE (American Masters webpage)
4'33 by John Cage:
