Relate the specifics of the Way of Tea to Zen sensibilities
What will be an ideal response?
The tranquility sought by Zen meditation is inherent to the tea ceremony. In rooms specifically designed for the purpose the guest was to leave the concerns of the daily world behind and enter a timeless world of ease, harmony, and mutual respect. The master of the ceremony would assemble the objects and utensils for making tea. The tea bowl was prized for its aesthetic shape and texture. In this quiet room the guest would contemplate the tea, its preparation, and the objects accompanying the ensemble which would express the master's artistic sensibility. The master and guest would collaborate in a ritual of meditation to transform the drinking of tea into a work of highly refined art.
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Time Characteristics (including a description of the rhythm of the main eight-beat phrase):
What will be an ideal response?
The form of this composition is essentially?
a) strophic b) through-composed c) A B A d) A B B A
Han Emperor Wu supported the arts by
a. providing pensions to musicians and poets. b. setting up a public forum for poetry readings. c. establishing a large bureau to collect folk songs. d. building schools for the teaching of music and poetry.
____ did a series of forty-one paintings on the life of Francois-Dominique Toussaint-L'Ouverture, a slave who led a revolt in Haiti that resulted in the abolition of slavery there in 1794
a. Jacob Lawrence b. Mona Hatoum c. William Hogarth d. Jenny Holzer