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Name the musical form that grew out of the rural African American tradition of work songs and spirituals. It evokes the pain to be found in life, love, poverty, and hard work. |
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Name the syncopated musical form that was based on a blend of African American rhythms and Western harmony. |
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What American pianist is its chief composer? |
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What American musical form combined West African and African-Caribbean rhythms with Western harmony, along with an improvisatory call-and-response style rooted in African songs and gospel songs of the urban Protestant revival of the 1850s? |
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What Russian composer wrote the music for The Rite of Spring? |
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The Rite of Spring was produced by Sergei Diaghilev in Paris. What art form was it? |
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What domestic architect is known for "organic" dwellings, those constructed of local woods and stone and therefore harmonized with the physical environment? |
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What impressionist composer created constantly shifting colors and moods through such musical methods as gliding chords and chromatic scales derived from non-Western sources? |
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What impressionist composer wrote Jeux d'eau and Valses nobles and sentimentales? |
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Name the type of music that has no major or minor keys. It sounds discordant and disturbing, with no harmonious frame of reference, and is characterized by wide leaps from one tone to another, melody fragments, interrupted rhythms, and violent contrasts. |
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What philosopher correctly predicted the general disasters, both moral and material, that would afflict Western culture in the twentieth century? |
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Who founded psychoanalysis? |
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Who developed the theory of the collective unconscious and the importance of archetypes? |
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Who wrote the expressionist short story Metamorphosis, in which a man awakes to find he has turned into a large insect? |
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Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray? |
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Who is well known for many beautiful impressionist paintings of water lilies, and also created the painting which gave the impressionist movement its name? |
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What postimpressionist artist created carefully researched paintings composed of thousands of tiny dots of different colors of paint that came together to create a pleasing and recognizable image? |
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What is the name of his technique and art movement? |
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Who painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon? |
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What Russian artist founded the Der Blaue Reiter school of art, which used basics of shape and color to express inner feelings? |
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