Pick a play and analyze the tone/mood, level of abstraction, and period and location that might affect a set and/or costume design.
What will be an ideal response?
The student could talk about the mood of, for example, The Pillowman and discuss how the tone of the play and harsh visual realities of the play along with the very scarce description of locales beyond that which are fantastical and how the set design must then reflect the eerie, loss-of-reality quality the play possesses and how the costumes must do the same.
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a. Assyria. b. Crete. c. Egypt. d. Rome.
Nietzsche's life and thought are ironical in what way?
A. Despite his anti-Christian views, many Christians admired him. B. Although he was an opponent of a strong German state, his writings were later taken up by the Nazis, who advocated a unified Germany. C. A popular thinker during his lifetime, he ceased to have any influence after World War II. D. While he glorified socialism, the West's individualistic artists made him one of their heroes.
The harmonic plan in this listening example can best be described as:
A. the 12-bar blues form. B. 32-bar form (A A B A). C. static, modal harmony. D. “I’ve Got Rhythm” changes.
Repetition of a musical idea by different voices or instruments is called
A) bridge. B) cadence. C) consonance. D) imitation.