Civ Arts exam 1 TERMS

Pottery

A coarse textured ware made from clay and fired in a kiln. Can be hand-molded or turned on awheel. Can be glazed or left unglazed.

Amphora

An ancient Greek jar, of two-handled form, with flared neck, used for the storage of oil or wine.

Geometric

The name for Greek pottery of the 9th and 8thcenturies BC, after the style of decoration found in this period. Vases were painted with horizontal bands and filled in with geometric designs, gradually developing into stylized human and animal forms

Meander

A decorative pattern consisting of lines turning at right angles to one another forming a continuous border.(AKA "Greek Key Pattern")

Black-figure painting

A style of decoration on Greek pottery of the 7thand 6th centuries BC, originating in Corinth, in which black decoration appears silhouetted on a red ground

Sculpture

A work of art carried out in three dimensions

4 Processes of Sculpture

carving (in stone or wood), modeling in clay, modeling in clay or wax and then casting in bronze, construction (20th Century Development

Kouros

A term applied to the standing male nude statues typical of the Archaic period

Articulation

A term referring the nature of the starts and ends of notes in music, particularly the degree to which each of a succession of notes is separated in performance

Dynamics

The aspect of musical expression concerned with the variation in the volume of sound

Form

The shape or structure of a musical work

Mass Ordinary

The texts of the Roman Catholic mass that remain constant from day to day

Sections of Mass Ordinary

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

Melisma

A group of notes sung to one syllable of text

Romanesque

10th-12th centuries

First pan-European architectural style since the fall of Rome

Many cathedrals, abbeys built during this period

"In the Roman style": Use of the rounded Roman arch

Flat, heavy stone walls

Followed by Gothic style

Roman/rounded arch

Gothic

c.1120-c.1400 in central Italy, continuing until the early 16th century in northern Europe (mostly associated with Germany, northern France, and England)

Lightness and verticality

Flying buttresses Stained glass windows

Pointed arches

Followed by the Renaissance

Flying buttress

Pointed arch

Fresco

A type of wall painting in which pigments are applied to wet plaster

Naturalism

Representation of objects as they are, rather than in a stylized or abstract manner