academic team

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Museum of Tomorrow (Rio)

Caja Madrid Obelisk

Constitution Bridge (Venice)

Santiago Calatrava

MetLife Building

Harvard grad center (also taught there)

Walter Gropius

SR Crown Hall

Barcelona Pavilion

Farnsworth House

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

concerto

can consist of a solo instrument contrasted with an entire orchestra

Niccolò Paganini

wrote 24 caprices for solo violin → some of the hardest pieces ever written for violin

hard bop

pioneered by Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, and John Coltrane; attempted to return jazz to its Afro-centric/blues-based roots

Renaissance era (music)

Polyphony, harmonic control, instrumental music, madrigal, composers from Burgundian or Franco-Flemish schools

Aida

Giuseppe Verdi → written to celebrate opening of Cairo Opera House

quickstep

mixture of Charleston and foxtrot, developed in 1920s

Anna Pavlova

created precursor to the pointe shoe, introduced the world to classical ballet on international tours

rationalism

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

wrote Phenomenology of Spirit, resented by Schopenhauer

Biblical patriarchs

Abraham, Jacob, Isaac

The Homecoming

Harold Pinter

Picnic

William Inge

Angels in America

Tony Kushner

Odalisk

Robert Rauschenberg

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Leningrad Symphony

Dmitri Shostakovich

Prospero

The Tempest → exiled Duke of Milan, Miranda’s father

mystery play

originally set on a moveable pageant-wagon

minimalism

1960s and 70s → emphasized industrial materials, renounced academic art

Satyagraha

Akhnaten

Philip Glass

Elevation of the Cross

Disembarkation at Marseilles

Peter Paul Rubens

Blue Nude

The Joy of Life

The Red Studio

Henri Matisse

Black Place, Grey and Pink

Radiator Building — Night, New York

Georgia O’Keeffe

futurism

led by Umberto Boccioni in Italy → offshoots in St. Petersburg & Moscow

Hospital of the Innocents

Filippo Brunelleschi

Villa Foscari

Andrea Palladio

St. Peter’s Square

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Miho Museum

Suzhou Museum

Museum of Islamic Art

I. M. Pei

hammam

Islamic public bath → have warm, hot, and steam rooms (and sometimes cold)

neoclassical music

brief popularity in US during 20th century

The Miraculous Mandarin

Béla Bartók → one act pantomime ballet

circle of fifths

embouchre

the way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or woodwind instrument

founded American Dance Theater

set Revelations to African American spirituals

Alvin Ailey

Fall River Legend

Agnes de Mille

Thomas Aquinas

Scholasticism

Hoderi

Japanese kami of fishermen and the sea

Nokomis

grandmother of Nanabozho in Ojiwe traditon

grandmother of title character in Song of Hiawatha (Longfellow)

Vesak

Buddhist holiday → can fall in April, May, or June

kyogen

comedy → began as an interlude between more serious dramas

mansion

medieval theater → roofed wooden platforms where plays were performed

Lysistrata

women seize the Athenian treasury during the Peloponnesian War

The Clouds

Pheidippides has put his father in Strepsiades in debt → S learns the art of argument to get out of debt

The Frogs

Dionysus plans to retrieve Euripides from underworld to save Athens

The Birds

Pisthetaerus convinces birds to create a city in the sky

Best Picture Oscar 2023

Best Actor → Cillian Murphy

Oppenheimer