Glossary of terms on the topic culture

1. A clef is a musical symbol used to indicate the pitch of written notes.

2. A melodrama is a dramatic or literary work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

3. A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly.

4. A soap opera, is a serial drama on television or radio which features related story lines about the lives of many characters, usually focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama

5. ABS, American Broadcasting System; one of the national television companies which broadcast all over the US.

6. Agricola I is an abstract sculpture by American artist David Smith.

7. An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.

8. An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble, often used in classical music, that contains sections of string (violin, viola, cello and double bass), brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments

9. An Off-Broadway is theatre is a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499.

10. Art deco is a style of art and decoration popular in the 1920s and 1930s in Europe and America, using especially simple shapes and man-made materials.

11. Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts – artworks, expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

12. Ballad is a simple narrative song, or, alternatively, a narrative poem suitable for singing.

13. Ballerina, in balet, is a female dancer.

14. Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

15. Bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.

16. Blue film is a film about sex; pornographic film

17. Brookgreen Gardens is a sculpture garden and wildlife preserve, located just south of Murrells Inlet, in South Carolina.

18. CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System; one of the national television companies which broadcast all over the US.

19. Colonialism is the political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.

20. Desperado is a desperate or violent criminal; ruffian

21. Director is a person, who directs a play, a film, instructing the actors, cameramen, etc.

22. Disney, Walt is an American film producer who pioneered catoons.

23. Double bass the largest and deepest instrument of the violin family.

24. Drama is the specific mode of narrative, typically fictional, represented in performance.

25. Gallery is a raised area, often having a stepped or sloping floor, in a theater, church, or other public building to accommodate spectators, exhibits, etc.

26. Kinetic art is a style of art that uses geometric shapes and pattern to provide movement.

27. Literary realism is part of the realist art movement beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal), and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin) and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

28. Mark Twain, the pen name Samuel L. Clemens, was an American author and humorist.

29. Minimalism is a style that uses pared-down design elements.

30. Modern art denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era.

31. Musical or music comedy is a play of film that highlights song and dance.

32. Muzak is generic term for elevator music

33. Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter.

34. Pantomime is the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.

35. Passion play is play about the suffering and death of Christ

36. Piccolo is a small, high-pitched flute

37. Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the Western world during the 1950s and 1960s, deriving from rock and roll.

38. Postminimalism is an art term coined by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971, used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism.

39. Producer is a person, who has general control of the money for a play, a film, or a broadcast, but who doesn’t direct the actors

40. Radio Disney, is an American radio network that is owned by Disney Channels Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Disney–ABC Television Group, a primary component of The Walt Disney Company's Disney Media Networks segment.

41. Rhythm is the “beat” of music; the regular pattern of long and short notes.

42. Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

43. Scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.

44. Taft, Lorado is an Americal sculptor known for his fountains.

45. The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.

46. The Baroque is often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theater, and music

47. The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.

48. Time (styled within the magazine as TIME) is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City.

49. Tuba the lowest-pitched of the brass instrument.

50. Wind instruments are musical instruments in which sound is produced by the musician’s blowing into them.

 

TEST

1. What is the second theme part in Disney World?

1) the Magic Kingdom

2) Epcot

3) Future World

2. Manhattan is the borough of

1) New York City

2) San-Francisko

3) Los Angeles

3. What is the city known as "the Paris of the West"?

1) New York City

2) San-Francisko

3) Los Angeles

4. The Rock, lies in San Francisco Bay about … km from the coast

1) 2

2) 1

3) 1,5

5. When was Hollywood Forever established?

1) 1899

2) 1999

3) 1889

6. Richard Meier is

1) A famous playwright

2) Architect

3) Actor

7. The Imperial Palace Hotel famous for

1) museum of vintage cars

2) the Arc de Triomphe in front of the Palace

3) dramatic architecture and lights

8. In Washington, DC, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the address

1) The White House

2) Statue of Liberty

3) Caesar's Palace

9. Never lived in the Presidential Palace

1) John Adams

2) Theodore Roosevelt

3) Washington

10. Jimmy Carter is

1) Architect

2) Sportsmen

3) President

11. Kīlauea is

1)A park

2)A currently active shield volcano

3)The waterfalls

12. Niagara Falls is waterfalls that straddle the international border between

1) Canada and the United States

2) Mexico and the United States

3) Russia and the United States

13. Oprah Gail Winfrey is

1) Actress

2) President

3) Artist

14. Better time to go

1) Spring

2) Winter

3) Summer

15. New York’s population

1) Over 20 million

2) Over 5 millions

3) Over 11 milions

16. September 11, 2001. What happened?

1) a Presidential Proclamation declared Fort Hood and the Statue of Liberty a National Monument

2) a terrorist attack in

3) the United States and Britain went to war

17. James Hoban is

1) Architect

2) Sportsmen

3) President

18. "Father of Denali National Park" is

1) George Lycurgus

2) President Jimmy Carter

3) Charles Alexander Sheldon

19. Niagara Falls is

1) A park

2) A currently active shield volcano

3) The waterfalls

20. Maid of the Mist is

1) a boat tour

2) a cable car tour

3) a car tour

EXERCIES TO THE GLOSSARY

1. Define as True or False:

· Producer is a person, who has general control of the money for a play, a film, or a broadcast, but who doesn’t direct the actors

· Producer is a person, who directs a play, a film, instructing the actors, cameramen, etc.

· An American sculptor known for his fountains is named David Smith

· Agricola I is an abstract sculpture by American artist David Smith.

· Vocal improvisation with wordless is called scat

 

2. Match the names with their defenitions:

A. Rhythm	1. A small, high-pitched flute
B. Tuba	2. A musical symbol used to indicate the pitch of written notes
C. A clef	3. The “beat” of music; the regular pattern of long and short notes.
D. Bass drum	4. The lowest-pitched of the brass instrument.
E. Piccolo	5. A woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.
F. The bassoon	6. A large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.