HUM 112 WEEK 1 QUIZ

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•  Question 1

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	Why did Gabrieli organize his compositions around a single note-the tonic note? Answer

•   Question 2

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	Why was the division between the Council of Trent-rejected secular music and religious compositions less pronounced in Venice? Answer

•   Question 3

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	What is the meaning of the Portuguese term barroco, from which "Baroque" likely derived? Answer

•   Question 4

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	As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why did Louis XIV reject Bernini's design for a new façade for the Louvre? Answer

•   Question 5

2 out of 2 points

	Why is Vivaldi's The Four Seasons known as program music? Answer

•   Question 6

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	Why did Pope Urban VIII commission a baldachino (canopy) for Saint Peter's interior? Answer

•   Question 7

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	Why did Bernini decorate the baldachino's grooved columns with bronze vines? Answer

•   Question 8

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	Why did Bernini include theater boxes on each side his Cornaro Chapel sculptural program? Answer

•   Question 9

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	What effect does Caravaggio achieve with light in The Calling of Saint Matthew? Answer

•   Question 10

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	In his Cornaro Chapel sculptural program, with what did Bernini equate Saint Teresa's religious visions? Answer

•   Question 11

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	In Descent from the Cross, discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why does Rembrandt push his scene deeper into the canvas than does Rubens in his earlier painting of the same title? Answer

•   Question 12

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	Why can Rembrandt's late work Slaughtered Ox be viewed as optimistic? Answer

•   Question 13

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	Why in 1637 did the Dutch economy come close to collapse? Answer