Nicanor Abelardo is to music as Fernando Amorsolo is to painting. Their
masterpieces are considered as classics today. True or False?
Dr
Abe V Rotor
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1.
The most dominant color of the earth as seen outer space is green.
2.
There are six colors of the rainbow that follow a standard sequence whether the
rainbow is in the tropics or in the temperate zone, in summer or in winter.
3.
It is rare to see a twin rainbow, but if there is one and you are lucky to
witness it, the lower rainbow is wider than the one on top of it.
4.
Humanities comes from the old English word humanus which speaks of fine
of human culture.
5.
Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
both classic socio-political novels.
6.
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde is a example of a tragedy because the
happy prince died at a very young age, and therefore missed the opportunity to
serve his constituents.
7.
One of the standards of a classical work of art is that it is timeliness.
8.
Alexander Dumas, Miguel Cervantes, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and Jose Rizal have
one thing in common: they are writers of powerful novels that move the world so
to speak, and changed the course of history.
9.
Robert Frost by mistake repeated the last lines of his famous poem On a Snowy
Night,
“And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.”
10.
A drawing exercise of fruits like apple, pear, grapes, chestnut, and orange
arranged on a table is an example of "still life."
11.
Don’t go gentle into the night is a poem which tells us to be vigilant,
and that our work is never done; don’t settle for comfort when in trouble and
even when there is apparent peace.
12.
Shakespearean drama is akin to tragedy; and if it were not for the literary
genius of this world’s greatest dramatist, many of his works like Romeo and
Juliet won’t pass the Board of Censors today.
13.
Biag ni Lam-ang is a local counterpart of Iliad.
14.
Juan Luna’s work, particularly Spolarium is a typical example of
Impressionism.
15.
Vincent van Gogh is considered the Father of Expressionism, an art movement
that preceded Impressionism.
16.
Impressionism is an art movement that started in France in the later part of
the 18th century, among the pioneers are Paul Cezanne, Pizarro, Monet, Degas.
17.
In the poem Fisherboy, the boy being referred to has something in common
with Mark Twain’s boys, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who did
not want to go to school.
18.
Jose Garcia Villa is a one of the greatest Filipino poet, awarded the honor of
National Artist.
19.
Nicanor Abelardo is to music as Fernando Amorsolo is to painting. Their
masterpieces are classics today.
20.
Nature takes shape was the basis of a drawing exercise on Landscape. The three
basic shapes are circle, square and triangle.
21.
When blue and yellow are mixed the color produced in green; blue and red will
produce violet.
22.
When the primary colors – red, blue and yellow - are mixed in equal proportion
the resulting color is black.
23.
These are contemporary Filipino compositions: Saan ka man naroon, La
Deportacion, Dahil sa isang bulaklak, Pamulinawen, Manang Biday, Matudnila
24.
Maestro Mamerto Villaba, tenor; Ryan Cayabyab, composer; and Prof. Paulino
Capitulo violinist, are Filipino musicians belonging to the same generation and
school.
25.
Dr. Jose Rizal’s novel, Noli Me Tangere, has been recently launched in
NY in a new English translation published by Penguin Books.
26.
Mahatma Gandhi is ranked among the world’s greatest leaders. His weapon:
asceticism, love, compassion - a favorite model for biography, cinematography,
and political documentary.
27.
To become great you must be able to a book for the sake of posterity, like
Rizal.
28.
The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway which won the Nobel Prize
for Literature, ended with the old man, worn out from his battle to land a big
fish, and the world rejoiced for his victory.
29.
Florante at Laura, masterpiece of poet laureate Francisco Balagtas is an
epic.
30.
A good work of Art must rise with the elements of spirituality and the
universal criteria of intellectual values.
31.
Style is unique; it's like finding no two snowflakes exactly the same.
32.
Rhythm is found in music, as well as in poetry,
33.
Even a free verse has musical qualities, in spite of the fact that it does not
follow a definite pattern of rhyme and rhythm and meter.
34.
Joyce Kilmer who wrote the famous poem Trees, is a man.
35.
In Trees the figure of speech used in personification.
36.
Where have all the flowers gone is a song and a poem that condemns war.
37.
The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want is the opening line of Psalm 23
by King David.
38.
Melodrama is like soapbox opera, and telenovela in many respects.
39.
Gettysberg Address was originally intended as an oration.
40.
The editorial of a newspaper, is considered a formal essay.
41.
Soliloquy and monologue are basically similar – a kind of dramatic poetry.
42.
The classical model of dance is Ballet, and the greatest ballet music composer
is Tchaikovsky. He composed the Dying Swan.
43.
Ideally there are 100 players in a full orchestra, with string instruments
comprising the biggest group of instruments.
44.
Drink to me with only thine eyes and I will not look for wine is the
first line of Song to Celia.
45.
Our old Spanish churches are a good example of Gothic architecture.
46.
The Parthenon of Greece is the greatest architectural work of the
classical period.
47.
Mona Lisa is considered the greatest of all paintings in the classical
period.
48.
Renaissance means rebirth or renewal which took place as early as the 15th h
century – the model used is Greco Roman.
49.
The Philippines was once a part of Renaissance Europe.
50.
Calligraphy is the art of writing beautifully while graphology is hand writing
analysis.
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ANSWERS:
1F (blue), 2t, 3t, 4t, 5t, 6T (it has a tragic beginning and triumphal ending),
7F (timelessness), 8t, 9f (Frost did it for emphasis of theme, and to impart
musical quality to the poem), 10t, 11t, 12t, 13t, 14f (romanticism), 15t, 16t,
17t, 18t (posthumous), 19t, 20t, 21t, 22t, 23f (all Filipino, combination of
kundiman, native Ilocano and Visayan songs), 24t (although each one has a
distinct style, Cayabyab is more recent and versatile), 25t, 26t, 27f (Christ,
Buddha did not write any book - others wrote for and about them), 28t, 29f
(Balagtasan in romantic and lyrical style - local Shakespearean), 30t, 31t,
32t, 33t, 34t, 35t, 36t, 37t, 37t, 38t, 39f, 40f, 41t, 42t 43t. 44t. 45f
(Baroque), 46t, 47t, 48t, 49t, 50t.
RATING
46-
50 Outstanding
41-45
Very Good
36-40
Good
31-35
Fair
25–30
Passed
Below
25 – listen regularly to Paaralan Bayan
