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🎻Intro to Humanities
Key Terms

1680 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Humanities exam

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12-bar blues
180-degree rule
1st century CE

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Aboriginal Spirituality
Abstract film
Absurdity
Achaemenid Empire
Acousmatic Music
Acousmatic music
Acoustic phonetics
Acoustics
Act Utilitarianism
Action games
Action painting
Active audience
Active audience theory
Active Audience Theory
Active Intellect
Adab
Adaptive Design
Adaptive music
Adaptive reuse
Adi Sankara
Adi Shankaracharya
Adolf Loos
Advaita Vedanta
Advaita vedanta
Advent
Aesthetic appreciation
Aesthetic experience
Aesthetic values
Aesthetic values
Affinal relations
Affinal relationships
African Dance
African Dance Traditions
African Decolonization
African diaspora music
African Epics
African Griots
African Traditional Religions
Agape
Age hierarchies
Ahura Mazda
Ai-generated music
Ajanta and Ellora
Akkadian Empire
Al-Ghazali
Albert Camus
Aleatoric music
Alexander Mosaic
Alexander Pushkin
Alexandre Dumas
Algorithmic composition
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Alienation effect
Alienation of labor
Aliyah
Allan Kaprow
Allegory of the Cave
Alliterative verse
Allomorph
Allomorph
Allophone
Alphabetic script
Alphabetic writing
Ambient music
American Federal Style
American Underground Cinema
Ana Mendieta
Analog recording
Analytical marxism
Ancestor worship