CLEP Humanities : Identifying Styles of Theater
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Example Question #1 :Theater
Who were the co-writers of the hit broadway musicalsThe King and I, Oklahoma!, andThe Sound of Music?
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
John Kander and Fred Ebb
艾伦·杰伊·勒纳和弗雷德里克·洛伊
Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman
William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
百老汇舞台音乐在我获得声望erican culture throughout the 1940s and 1950s, largely thanks to the works of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. TheirOklahoma!, from 1943, was the first musical to fully integrate songs and music into the play's story. The duo had further Broadway hits with 1951'sThe King and Iand 1959'sThe Sound of Music.
Example Question #2 :Theater
The composer who wrote the operasThe Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni,andThe Magic Flutewas__________.
Carl Maria von Weber
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gioachino Rossini
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a pioneering composer in a number of genres, but pioneered new realms for opera with his compositions.Don GiovanniandThe Marriage of Figarorestructured and transformed Italian opera, whileThe Magic Flutehelped pioneer opera in German.
Example Question #3 :Theater
Which composer wrote the music for the comic-operaHMS Pinafore?
Frederick Loewe
Frederic Clay
年代tephen Sondheim
Richard Rodgers
Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Sullivan helped pioneer English language comic operas with his writing partner, the librettist W. S. Gilbert. Gilbert and Sullivan became immensely popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the last decades of the nineteenth century writing works likeHMS Pinafore, The Mikado,andThe Pirates of Penzance.
Example Question #4 :Theater
Which of the following playwrights is NOT considered a writer in the style known as "The Theater of the Absurd"?
Eugene Ionesco
Edward Albee
Luigi Pirandello
Eugene O'Neill
年代amuel Beckett
Eugene O'Neill
The "Theater of the Absurd" was a dramatic movement begun by figures like Samuel Beckett and Luigi Pirandello in the 1920s that subverted and exploded theatrical conventions regarding settings, storytelling, and character development. This style was developed as a reaction to the hyper-realism of playwrights like Eugene O'Neill and August Strindberg. The movement was hugely influential, with playwrights of the next generation like Eugene Ionesco and Edward Albee picking up the mantle for themselves.
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