Art/Music Terms
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samdearest on May 9, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acoustics | the science of sound generation. |
| opera | a theatrical performance involing a drama, the text which is sung to the accompanient of an orchestra. |
| cresceondo | gradually louder |
| virtuoso | a performer with brilliant, flawless, techinque. |
| mosaic | floor or wall decoration made of small pieces of stone, ceramic, shell, or glass into plaster or cement. |
| renaissance | a revial or rebirth. An art movement during the fourteenth and fifteenth century, during which time advances in painting were made, including perspecitve and foreshorting. Noted artists of the time include Lenardo Da Vinci, Michelangeo and Raphael. |
| texture | the way individual parts of music layered or the number of souns occuring simultaneously. |
| ballad | a narrative song. |
| melody | a succesion or pattern of musical tones or pitches. Arranging these pitches creates a specific tonal and rhythmic succesion of sounds that makes each piece recognizable and expressed a musical idea or tone. |
| repertoire | a variety of musical pieces. |
| aesthetics | that branch of philosophy which focuses on the nature and value of art, the nature of beauty, and provides a criteria by which works of art are analyzed and evaluted. |
| perspective | system for giving the illusion of three-dimmensional space on a two-dimmensional surface. |
| impressionism | This style was centered mostly in France. The composers developed a new musical "language" that has affected music even to the present day. Composer experimented with new coloristic effects in instruments and the voice in harmonies, new combinations of scales and rythms. There were paralles to the artwork of the time in the "feeling" of lightness and exoticism in the music. Noted composers of the time include Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel. |
| impressionsim | a style of painting started in France in the 1860's. This style of art empashied the effect of sunlight on objects and used small dabs of paints that are belended in the viewers eyes to imitate reflected light. Noted composures of include Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt and Claude Monet. |
| color | Hue(name of the color) value( how light a color is) and intensity( amount of brightness) produced through th reflection of light to the eye. |
| clef | symbol placed at the begining of the staff to indicate the pitch if the notes on the staff. (treble cleff and bass clef) |
| tempo | the speed or pace of music. Musical tempos are expressed in Italian and include lento(very slow); adagio(slow); moderato (moderate); allegro (lively); presto (fast); vivace (very fast). |
| score | the written description of all the parts of a musical ensemble with the parts layered vertically and rhytmically aligned. |
| staff | the musical ladder made up of a set of five parallel lines and four spaces on which music is written and makes it easy for you to tell how high or low a sound is. The lines are counted from the bottom up. |
| concerto | a piece for a soloist and orchestra |
| genre | a category of musical compostion, such as a symphony, opera, string quartet, cantata,concerto, ect. |
| collage | twentith-century techinque of making art in which various materials, such as paper, photographs, fabric, string, etc, are pasted on a flat surface. |
| medium | material used by an artist to produce a work of art. May also refer to the liquid mixed with pigment to make paint. |
| still life | a painting, drawing, photograph, or other work of art that shows an arrangement of inanimate objects. |
| techinques | the processes by which art materials and meida are used to create/produce works of visual art, such as carving, drawing, painting, printing, etc. |
| contrast | significant degrees of difference between lines, colors, shapes, values, or textures. Pale yellow against charcoal black has a greater degree of contrast then yellow against white, for example. |
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