Neoclassical

Entertainment / Music / Neoclassical: Movement in music where the characteristics are crisp and direct.
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Three Unities

Entertainment / Literature / Three Unities: In the 1500s and 1600s, critics of drama expanded Aristotle's ideas in the Poetics to create the rule of the 'three unities.' A good play, according to this doctrine, must have three traits. The first MORE

Formalism

Entertainment / Music / Formalism: Tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in Neoclassical music. MORE

Romantic

Entertainment / Music / Romantic: A period in history during the 18th and early 19th centuries where the focus shifted from the neoclassical style to an emotional, expressive, and imaginative style. MORE

Aufklärung

Entertainment / Literature / Aufklärung: The German term for the philosophical movement called in English 'the Enlightenment' or the Neoclassical movement. See Enlightenment. MORE

Colonial Period

Entertainment / Literature / Colonial Period: American and British historians use this term somewhat differently. American scholars usually use the term 'colonial period' to refer to the years in the American colonies before the American Revoluti MORE

Concrete Diction - Concrete Imagery

Entertainment / Literature / Concrete Diction - Concrete Imagery: Language that describes qualities that can be perceived with the five senses as opposed to using abstract or generalized language. For instance, calling a fruit 'pleasant' or 'good' is abstract, while MORE