Final study guide
Music
In the identification section, you will hear a piece of music; you must identify
the work and composer:
G. F. Handel, Messiah: Comfort Ye and Ev’ry Valley
G. F. Handel, Messiah: Hallelujah
Antonio Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Spring
J. S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
nd
Joseph Haydn, Symphony #94 in G major: Surprise, 2 movement
st
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata #1 in C Major, 1 movement
st
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony #40 in G Minor, 1 movement
th
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, 4 movement
th
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, 5 movement
Frederic Chopin, Fantaisie Impromptu
Franz Schubert, Erlkonig
Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto: La donna è mobile and Quartet
Richard Wagner, Die Walküre: The Ride of the Valkyries
Claude Debussy, Prelude à l’Apres-midi d’un Faune
Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
Paintings and Sculptures:
In the identification section, you will see a picture of the following paintings
and/or sculptures; you must identify the work and artist:
Michelangelo, The Last Judgment
Anthony Van Dyck, Charles I
Bernini, The Abduction of Proserpina
Caravaggio, The Crucifixion of St. Peter
Rubens, The Coronation of Marie de Medicis
Rembrandt, Self-portraits
Rembrandt, The Night Watch
Rembrandt, Syndics of the Draper’s Guild
Rembrandt, The Return of the Prodigal Son
Fragonard, The Swing
David, The Oath of the Horatii
David, The Tennis Court Oath
David, The Death of Marat
David, The Coronation of the Empress Josephine
Ingres, Napoleon
Goya, Cronos Devouring His Children
Cole, Crawford Notch
Waterhouse, Tristan and Isolde
Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres
Manet, Monet Working in his Boat
Monet, Impression: Sunrise
Renoir, Dance at the Moulin de Galette
Pisarro, The Boulevard des Italiens
Cezanne, Mont St. Victoire seen from Bellevue
Cezanne, Still Life
Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande-Jatte
Van Gogh, Sunflowers
Van Gogh, Thatched Houses in Cordeville
Van Gogh, The Artist’s Room in Arles
Van Gogh, Wheatfield with Crows
Gaugin, Tahitian Women on the Beach
Munch, The Scream
Kollwitz, March of the Weavers
Kandinsky, Cossacks
Matisse, La Desserte
Picasso, The Old Guitarist
Picasso, Violin and Grapes
Review Questions:
In the multiple choice section, you will answer 50 questions selected
randomly from the questions below:
W09 Study: The Palace of Versailles (Video)
1. Why was Nicholas Fouquet imprisoned?
2. What was the Fronde?
3. What was the Palace of Versailles before Louis XIV had it remodeled?
4. What did Louis XIV call himself?
W09 Study: Introduction to the Baroque
1. What did the word barocco originally refer to?
2. What does the word affection mean?
3. What are the humors?
4. Which philosopher saw the world as a perfectly ordered and
mathematically inspired creation?
5. Which country saw the most destruction in the Thirty Years War?
6. Which country was wracked by a Civil War between 1642 - 1649?
7. What was another name for the rum-sugar-slave trade in 17th and
18th centuries?
8. Who used his telescope to prove the heliocentric nature of the solar
system?
W09 Study: Baroque Music
1. What was the belief that music had the ability and purpose of moving
the emotions?
2. What was the name of the style where the bass and harmonies played
continuously regardless of what instruments or voices were carrying
the melody?
3. What do we call it when performers improvise notes not written on the
page?
4. What do we call it when the chords and melodic figures clearly outline
a strong sense of home key?
5. The birth of what art form marks the beginning of the Baroque era?
6. What kind of singing features music where the words are clearly
enunciated in a speech-like manner with simple accompaniment?
7. What is the name of singing where the music becomes more important
than the words and seeks to explore a single emotion of the character?
8. Where did Handel settle and write most of his oratorios?
9. What do we call many notes on a single syllable of text?
10. What musical instrument (besides the voice) was most characteristic
of the Baroque era?
11. What do we call a multi-movement instrumental work for one or two
solo musical instruments?
12. What do we call a large work for full orchestra, with contrasting
sections played by a solo instrument or small group?
13. What do we call a section of a composition that keeps returning
throughout?
14. What musical composition sounds like improvisatory finger exercises
on a keyboard?
15. What is the main theme of a fugue called?
16. What do we call the first section of a fugue?
17. What do we call the center part of a fugue where the main theme
disappears?
18. What do we call the return of the main theme near the end of the
fugue?
W10 Study: Marie Antoinette's Estate (Video)
1. Who remodeled a portion of the Versailles gardens to make them more
sensitive?
2. What is the work we use to describe a landscape that fits our notions
of the way it should be ordered?
3. Why did Marie Antoinette want a French country village in her
gardens?
4. How did Marie Antoinette die?
5. What culture did Revolutionary France model itself after?
W10 Study: Revolutions
1. Why did the English call their bloodless revolution of 1688?
2. Who reigned France for 72 years?
3. What do we call the lighter late-Baroque style of Louis XV's reign?
4. Who wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations?
5. What is the French word for the middle class?
6. What movement in the 1700s encouraged critical questioning of
traditional institutions, customs, and morals, and a strong belief in
rationality and science?
7. What were the three estates of France?
8. What violent event signaled the beginning of the French revolution?
9. Who crowned Napoleon emperor?
W10 Study: Classical Music
1. What do we call the rate of chord change in a musical composition?
2. What was the most important musical genre of the Classical period?
3. What do we call two phrases of equal length?
4. What form is the first movement of a symphony usually in?
5. What do we call a slow, three-part dance form that was popular for the
third movement of a symphony in the Classical period?
6. What do we call a fast, three-part dance form that was popular for the
third movement of a symphony in the Classical period?
7. What do we call the first part of sonata allegro form where we hear all
the themes for the first time?
8. What do we call the second part of sonata allegro form where the
themes wander through various keys?
9. What do we call the third part of sonata allegro form where the themes
come back in the tonic key?
10. Who wrote over 100 symphonies and was considered the master of
the genre?
11. What Classical composer was best known for his piano concertos and
operas?
12. Who stretched the boundaries of the Classical style with his immense
and complex symphonies, concertos, piano works, and chamber
music?
13. What form is the second movement of Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony
in?
W11 Study: Napoleon at Waterloo (Video)
1. What country is Waterloo in?
2. Who commanded the English at Waterloo?
3. Why did Napoleon delay the battle of Waterloo until 11 AM?
4. Why did Captain Ahab hate Moby Dick?
W11 Study: The Romantic Era
1. Who invented the rotary steam engine?
2. What were the net effects of the Industrial Revolution?
3. What are 19th century inventions?
4. Who said Romanticism was "feeling deeply"?
5. What are the typical subjects of Romanticism?
6. Where was the first place Napoleon encountered nationalism against
the French occupation?
7. Who wandered about Germany collecting folk tales?
8. What group of painters celebrated the natural beauty of New York?
9. What Romantic work was about a man who sold his soul to the devil?
10. In what style are the British Houses of Parliament?
11. Who wrote "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have
loved at all"?
W11 Study: Romantic Music
1. What do we call music with some kind of extra-musical association?
2. Who wrote a symphony about an opium-induced hallucination?
3. What medieval theme appears in the last movement of the Symphonie
Fantastique?
4. What do we call the returning motive in the Symphonie Fantastique?
5. What happens to the poet's beloved in the Symphonie Fantastique?
6. What do we call a short programmatic work for the piano?
7. Of the two great pianists of the Romantic era, who was the more
virtuosic?
8. Who was the "poet of the piano"?
9. What is rubato?
10. What is the German word for song?
11. Who wrote over 600 songs in German?
12. How does Schubert set the death of the boy in the Erlkönig?
13. What does Bel canto mean?
14. What is Rigoletto's profession?
15. What is a Gesamtkunstwerk?
16. What is the name of the women in Nordic mythology who bring the
dead warriors back to Valhalla?
W12 Study: The War of the World (Video)
1. What was the longest battle in history?
2. Where did the crisis that touched off World War I occur?
3. Who was Germany's principle ally in World War I?
4. What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I?
5. Who was the dictator of Germany during World War II?
6. How did the wars and genocide of the Twentieth Century affect art?
W12 Study: Impressionism
1. Which French ruler was overthrown by the Germans in 1871?
2. How did the invention of the camera change art in the 1800s?
3. How did the invention of oil paint in metal tubes change art in the
1800s?
4. Which painter believed that traditional studio art did not look the way
objects appear in real life?
5. What did Monet call painting in front of a real-life object?
6. What do we call the literary parallel to Impressionism?
7. What do the French call a depressed boredom that sets in once all
desires have been met?
8. What are some of Debussy's stylistic techniques?
9. What did the French not like about Wagner's music?
W12 Study: The Birth of Modernism
1. Why did composers like Debussy use non-tonal scales and chord
progressions?
2. What did Cezanne not like about Impressionism?
3. What does Cezanne use to bring order to his canvases?
4. What about Cezanne gave impetus to Modernism?
5. What do we call the style of painting that uses paint in tiny dots of
color?
6. Who did Vincent Van Gogh write to throughout his career?
7. How did Van Gogh show his excitement in painting?
8. What do we call an emphasis on geometric forms in art?
9. What do we call a tendency to distort to create intense emotion?
10. What do we call Gauguin's emphasis on native, folk styles?
11. Which work provoked a riot at its premiere?
12. Who nominated an award for art but was denied it by the government
because it was so lacking in "mitigating or conciliatory elements"?
13. Who wrote a book about the psychological effects of color?
W13 Study: Background to Casablanca
1. Which war serves as the backdrop for Casablanca?
2. Where was Casablanca made?
3. What did France and England do when Hitler occupied the Rhineland?
4. Where was the Sudetenland?
5. Who claimed that he brought "peace in our time"?
6. Where is Victor Laszlo from?
7. What was the name of the German secret police under the Nazis?
8. Where did the Nazis put their political opponents?
9. What is the German word for "lightning war"?
10. What did the French and English call the war during the winter of
1939 - 40?
11. Where was the capital of the French government after the fall of
France to the Germans?
12. Where is Casablanca?
13. What brought the United States into World War II
W13 Study: Casablanca (Movie)
1. Where did the refugees in Casablanca go if they got passports out of
the city?
2. Early in the movie we see a man warning an Englishman to "beware
of vultures" in Casablanca. What does he do to the Englishman?
3. Why is Ugarte fleeing from the Germans?
4. Where does Rick hide the letters of transit?
5. What does Rick tell Louis is the reason he came to Casablanca?
6. Where has Victor Laszlo come from?
7. What is the name of Rick's piano player?
8. What is Ilsa's favorite song?
9. Where did Rick and Ilsa first meet?
10. What forced them to leave?
11. Why does Ilsa not leave with Rick?
12. How does Rick save Annina from Louis?
13. What is Louis shocked to discover about Rick's?
14. What does Rick do with the two letters of transit?
15. What does Louis do when he discovers that Rick has shot Major
Strasser?
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