Senior Academic Super Bowl – Fine Arts
Final Study Guide
“THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME”
148 BC – 225 AD
I. Visual Arts – 50%
A. Architecture
B. Paintings and Mosaics
C. Sculpture
II. Performance Arts – 50%
A. Influences
1. Etruscan
2. Greek (including theoretical material)
3. East
B. Instruments
1. Aerophones
2. Chordophones
3. Idiophones
C. Function of Music in Society
1. Military Music
2. Everyday Life
3. Theater
4. Religious Rites
D. Musicians
1. Social status of musicians
2. Virtuosi
3. Amateur music making
4. Music education
Music: As always, Grove Dictionary Online will be a major source. Listening examples will be of minor importance.
Questions will focus on identification of instruments, some association with instruments and their use in ritual, theater,
military, etc., based on interpretations of specialist groups of players and singers.
SOURCES:
Ramage, Nancy and Andrew Roman Art Romulus to Constantine Fifth Edition
Pearson, Prentice Hall 2009 (primary source)
Roman Art from the Louvre, Daniel Roger and Cecile Giroire
ISBN 13: 978-188544356, Hudson Hill Press (primarily for pictures)
Stierlin,Henri
The Roman Empire Taschen’s World Architecture 1996 (primarily for pictures)
Various internet sites, chiefly Wikipedia
Music in Greek and Roman Culture, Giovanni Comotti, tr. Rosaria V. Munson. 1989, John Hopkins University Press
ISBN 0-08018-3364-7
Music in Ancient Greece and Rome John C. Landels. 1999. Pub. Routledge, New York, NY ISBM 0-415-16776-0
New Oxford History of Music, Vol. 1 Ancient and Oriental Music
ISBN 0-19-316-301-2
Groves Dictionary Online
2015 Outlines were developed by coaches who chose to share ideas at the 2013 Academic Coaches Conference and
through email, and further developed by question writers.