FINE ARTS II

The Word's The Thing

Specialized Vocabulary

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

The answer to each clue will be a word related to art, music, dance, or theater.

 

1. Place for an artist's paints

2. Place for an artist's canvas

3. A highly skilled musician

4. A precociously gifted child (as in music)

5. A celebrated female opera singer

6. Overly dramatic or emotional in acting

7. The Muse of music and lyric poetry

8. The complete words of an opera 

9. The complete musical notation of a work

10. Relative speed at which a musical composition should be played

11. Person in charge of an art gallery or museum or one of its departments

12. Sharps or flats indicating the key of a musical composition

13. A musical composition for a featured instrument and orchestra  

14. In drama, recourse to the supernatural in order to extricate a character from an otherwise inextricable situation

15. A large musical work for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, usually dramatizing a sacred story, but without scenery or acting. 

Answers:

 

1. Palette

2. Easel

3. Virtuoso

4. Prodigy

5. Diva

6. Histrionic

7. Euterpe

8. Libretto

9. Score

10. Tempo

11. Curator

12. Key signature

13. Concerto

14. Deus ex machina

15. Oratorio