KY Academic Team Arts and Humanities

This musical dynamic indicates that passage should be played or sung very softly.  Name this dynamic marking, symbolized by two lowercase p's.

• alegro
• pianissimo

This feature of much African music is also found in the music of Eastern Woodlands tribes.  In what style does a leader sing a melody that a group repeats or otherwise responds to?

• Call and Response
• Refrain

This artist depicted the man who cared for him in his final months in Portrait of Dr. Gachet. 

• Van Gogh
• Monet

There are three ways to play this group of instruments: plucking, bowing, or striking.  What family of musical instruments includes the guitar and fiddle?

• Strings
• Percussion

This word refers to the largest possible division of a play.  There are five of them in each of Shakespeare's plays.  What is the three letter word, which is also a synonym of "perform"?

• Act
• Sol

This singing technique from African folk music is also found in African American slave songs and gospel music.  Identify the technique, often paired with clapping or another rhythm, in which a leader sings a melody and a group repeats it. 

• Call and Response
• Call Back

This string instrument's design was perfected by craftsmen Andrea amati and Antonio Stradivari.

• Cello
• Violin

This artist's paintings Wheat Field with Cypresses and Bedroom in Arles exhibit the swirling brushstrokes and bright colors of Post-Impressionism. 

• Cassat
• Van Gogh

This historic site is also known as Federal Hill, the home of Judge John Rowan.

• My Old Kentucky Home
• Monitcello

What site, according to legend was the inspiration for the Kentucky state song?

• My Old Kentucky Home
• Rupp Arena