World Scholar's Cup Art and Music — practice questions
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Practice World Scholar's Cup Art and Music in the app →A visitor steps into the small dark cubicle that holds the main idol. That room is the:A pilgrim crosses a pillared hall packed with worshippers before reaching the shrine. That hall is the:A traveller in the north sees a tower whose walls curve inward to a point. That spire is a:The same traveller reaches Tamil Nadu and finds a pyramidal tower over the shrine. There it is called the:Two broad orders of Indian temples are named. Nagara belongs to the north, and the southern order is:A pilgrim in the south passes through a towering gateway set in the front wall. That gateway is the:A Tamil temple is ringed all round, while a Khajuraho temple has no such ring. The dravida temple sits within Standing outside a nagara temple you want to guess where the idol sits. Look directly under the:On the shore of the Bay of Bengal stand the ruins of a temple built in stone around 1240 for the god:The Konark spire proved too heavy for its site and fell in the nineteenth century. Its height is said to have A king completes the largest and tallest of all Indian temples at Thanjavur around 1009. That king was:The multi-storeyed pyramidal vimana of the Thanjavur temple rises to roughly:At Ellora one whole temple was cut down out of a hillside instead of built up in blocks. It is the:The Kailashnath tower rises about thirty metres, and every part of the temple is carved out of:Each new patron at Tiruchirapally raised a taller wall around the old one. The Srirangam temple ended with encIn such a walled temple, a student asks which ring went up last. The newest wall is the one that is:A scholar names deities in a sculpture by reading their symbols and myths. That branch of art history is:At the doorway of a nagara sanctum a visitor is met by two river goddesses. They are:A main shrine stands on a plinth with four smaller shrines at its corners. The five together name the style:A Chandela king named Dhanga built a Khajuraho temple in 954. He dedicated it to:Near the top of a nagara tower sits a horizontal fluted disc, with a vase above it. The disc is the:In front of the Sun temple at Modhera lies a huge rectangular stepped tank. It is called the:A beginner counts the parallel lines a modern staff is drawn with. The count is:A note sits too high to fit on the staff, so short extra lines are drawn for it. Those are:Before reading any pitch, a singer checks the sign that fixes what the lines stand for. That sign is the:A pianist sees the G clef at the front of a line of music. That staff is usually called the:A sharp is set before a note. The staff degree now stands for a pitch higher by:A double-sharp is placed on a staff degree. Without any sharp there, the pitch would be lower by:Halfway down a line a player meets a sign that cancels an earlier sharp. That sign is the:A measured silence has to appear in a part. The character written for it is a:An English score names the whole-note differently. There it is the:In that same English naming, a half-note appears as the:A student meets an eighth-note in an English edition. It is written there as:A vertical line is ruled down across the staff to split it into measures. That line is a:Two vertical lines, one of them heavy, appear after the last note of a movement. They mark:Dots sit over a run of notes, so the player detaches them from each other. That mark is the:A slur is drawn over a phrase, so the singer keeps the tones:Four elements are commonly attributed to music. Rhythm, melody, harmony and:A drummer keeps accents returning at regular intervals through a piece. That element is:A tune is a run of single tones of different pitches, heard one after another. That is a:A student studies how chords are built and combined. That study is:A large religious work for chorus, soloists and orchestra is meant for the concert hall, not the service. It iA drama set to music, with characters, scenery and stage action, is an:A short simple song passed around among ordinary people, like Auld Lang Syne, is a:A critic wants one word that covers every aspect of visual rhetoric at once. That umbrella word is:An artist places the parts of a picture so some stand out and patterns repeat. That element is:What a picture takes in, what it leaves out and where its focus falls together make up its:A designer sets two clashing images close together so the viewer feels the jolt. That placing is:Part of an image's meaning reaches the viewer through the variety and interplay among its:A student's project uses more than one kind of literacy at once, text with image and sound. It is:Purpose, audience, genre, stance, context and culture together make up the:Concertgoers stand sharp at the front of a photograph while the crowd behind is blurred. Those blurred people Feet and the tops of heads fall outside the frame, pulling the figures near. That framing is a:The people a photographer put right at the front of the shot stand in the:An artist wants viewers to come back to her images and look again from different angles and:Documentary and commercial photographers steer viewers towards an intended meaning using visual:A student wants to use someone else's photograph. Besides citing the author, she must secure:A writer swaps big, shiny and many very small for exact words that show the thing. That is stronger:In a photograph everything arrives at once, so a viewer may start or stop:Watercolour ties the dancers to their setting so they seem to belong in the scene. The uniting element is:Images get made for humour, for irony, for sarcasm, for outrage. Those are all different:A photographer picks out a digital waterfall using seductive colours and:Critics argue that one statue shows Black and Native people as conquered and culturally:Writing a strong context takes two things: staying selective about what goes in, and framing your own:Classmates pool their responses to one image and understand more than any of them did alone. What grows is undGenre conventions in visual work are shaped by purpose, culture and: