A brief break between acts, in which the house lights come on and the audience may leave their seats.

A cadenza is a moment in a musical piece where an instrumentalist or singer is given the opportunity to play a solo freely and with artistic license to go outside of a rigid tempo or rhythm.

A category of literary or dramatic composition; drama is a literary genre. Drama is further divided into tragedy, comedy, farce, and melodrama, and these genres, in turn, can be subdivided.

A computer software that obtains information from a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent

A computer that provides shared resources to network users.

A device used to connect networks using different protocols so that information can be successfully passed from one system to another.

A digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by a centralized authority.

A dynamic instruction meaning to gradually play louder.

A dynamic instruction meaning to gradually play softer.

A first-in-first-out (FIFO) abstract data type.

A genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged from this.

A global wide area network that is formed from the interconnection of many other networks and that uses the TCP/IP protocol.

A large scale orchestral work, usually in four movements, in which at least one is in sonata-form.

A long speech made by one actor; a monologue may be delivered alone or in the presence of others.

A mocking or satirical imitation of a literary or dramatic work.

A multiple data channel system in which the bandwidth of the transmission medium carries several data streams at the same time.

A person who writes a play.

A play in which the story is told through a combination of spoken dialogue and musical numbers.

A powerful metallic instrument with a mouthpiece and tubing that must be blown into by the player, such as trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba, baritone, bugel, etc.

A principle of art and design concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (identical compositional units on either side of an axis) or asymmetrical (not identical) in design and proportion.

A program that hides in or masquerades as desirable software, such as utility or a game, but attacks computers it infects.

A program you use to browse files; web browsers like Firefox, Chrome or Edge will browse internet files.

A sequence of notes in either descending or ascending order.

A sequence of notes played one after the other to produce a tune.

A simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments.

A small program that exploits a network security weakness (security hole) to replicate itself through computer networks.

A song of religious worship.

A structured collection of data.

A style of American modern popular music combining African and Western musical traits.

A style of piano music developed around the turn of the 20th century, with a march-like tempo a syncopated right-hand melody, and an "oom-pah" left-hand accompanimen.

A style of popular music developed by Afro-Americans in the 1970s, in which the lyrics are spoken over rhythm tracks.

A style of popular music that emerged in the 1950s out of the combination of AfroAmerican, Country-Western and pop-music elements.

A summary speech delivered at the end of a play that explains or comments on the action.

A technique which allows students to slow down and focus individually on an issue.

A work of art is usually discussed in terms of its subject matter, form and content. Content refers to the intellectual, psychological, spiritual, narrative or aesthetic aspect of the work.

Acting without words.

Address of documents and resources on the internet.

All the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things; Microsoft Word and Windows 10 are examples of software programs.

An artist uses this as a vehicle for rendering a particular type of subject matter. The formal elements of a work consist of the groupings and combinations of shapes.

An early or trial working version of the proposed system developed to test possible solutions.

An email scam that dishonest people use to try to get you to reveal your passwords or other information they could use to hack into your private information.

An identifiable path of a point moving in space. It can vary in width, direction, and length. Horizontal lines tend to create a sense of calm in a picture. Vertical lines tend to create a feeling of stability. Diagonal lines tend to create a feeling of dynamic movement.

An indication beforehand of something that is about to happen.

An instrument that is played by placing one's hands directly on the strings, such as violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, guitar, dulcimer, psaltery, etc.

An instrument that produces its sound from a column of air vibrating within a multi-holed tube.

An outline that shows only the edge and not the volume or mass of an object. Sometimes called blind contour if the artists in not looking at their paper, only at their subject.

An unverifiable story popularly accepted as historical and handed down by tradition from earlier times.

Any article, except costume or scenery, used as part of a dramatic production; any moveable object that appears on stage during a performance, from a telephone to a train.

Any serious play in which a person is a victim of fate, a character flaw, moral weakness, or social pressure. The prupose is typically to generate pity and fear in the audience.

Any story or tale passed on traditionally.

Brightness of a color.

Computer abbreviation for "sending particularly annoying messages"; unwanted email.

Fixing bugs, changing parameters and responding to changing requirements.

For a transmission medium, the range of signal frequencies it may transmit.

Implant a link to something like a video, picture, etc. into a slide presentation, Web page, etc.

In a nonlinear plot, to go back in time to a previous event; a flash forward would move the action into the future.

Increasing or enlarging an object or figure or one of its parts to communicate ideas and feelings.

Levels of sound in music. The spectrum of soft to loud.

Light or dark; the variations of light and dark on the surface of an object. The lightness or darkness of a color.

Malicious code that cyber criminals launch to try to damage other people?s computers.

Meaning the music should be played cheerfully. Upbeat and brisk.

Meaning the music should be played in a moderately slow tempo.

Principal of design that repeats elements to create the illusion of movement. Visual rhythm is perceived through the eyes, and is created by repeating positive spaces separated by negative spaces.

Principle of design concerned that stresses one element or area in a work of art to make it attract the viewer?s attention first.

Principle of design concerned with the size relationships of one part to the whole and one part to another.

Printing technique that makes use of a squeegee to force ink directly onto a piece of paper or canvas through a stencil containing the image. (The process is also called silk-screen or serigraphy.)

Refers to the way things feel or look as though they might feel if they were touched.

Small fluctuations in pitch used to make a sound more expressive

Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.

The arrangement of one or more of the elements used to create a feeling of completeness. Everything in the work seems to belong and contribute to the overall picture.

The atmosphere created by unresolved, disquieting, or inharmonious situations that human beings feel compelled to address; the state of anxiety the audience feels because of a threat to a character in a play.

The basic idea of a play; the idea, point of view, or perception that binds together a work of art.

The center of interest of an artwork; the part you look at first.

The central figure in a tragedy; typically, a tragic hero is a person of basically good character who passes from happiness to misery because of a character flaw or error in judgment.

The climax or high point of a story, when events can go either way.

The dark values of a color (adding black).

The difference in importance of one aspect in relation to all other aspects of design. What stands out most in a work of art.

The element of sculpture, which refers to emptiness or areas between, around, above, below or within objects.

The frequency of the vibration of sound.

The group of people selected to portray characters in a drama.

The highest female voice.

The illusion of space, whether three- or two-dimensional, created by an artist on the two-dimensional surface of the canvas or paper.

The main character or hero in a play or other literary work.

The movement or development of the plot or story in a play; the sense of forward movement created by the sense of time and/or the physical and psychological motivations of characters.

The name of a color ? red blue, yellow, etc.

The part of a play that introduces the theme, chief characters, and current circumstances.

The science of designing cipher keys.

The sounding of two or more notes at the same time.

The specific material used by an artist, such as oil and brush; also, the vehicle used, such as sculpture, painting or photography.

The speed at which a musical composition is played.

The theatrical equipment, such as curtains, flats, backdrops, or platforms, used in a dramatic production to communicate environment.

The topic of interest or the primary theme of an artwork.

To improvise lines that are not part of the written script; also refers to the improvised line.

Two chords at the end of a piece which provide a type of 'punctuation' at the end of a musical phrase.

Two-dimensional decorative visual repetition. A pattern has no movement and may or may not have rhythm.

Unit repeated in visual rhythm. Units in a motif may or may not be an exact duplicate of the first unit.

Use of opposites near or beside one another (light and dark, rough and smooth).

Using an algorithm and a key to convert message data into a form that is not understandable without that key.

Where a computer stores data; temporary memory, called random access memory and permanent memory, which is called read only memory (ROM).