Noh theater

Examples of Noh theater in the following topics:

• Zen Dry Rock Gardens

  • It saw the beginning of Noh theater, the Japanese tea ceremony, the shoin style of Japanese architecture, and the zen garden.
  • "The compositions of stone, already common China, became in Japan, veritable petrified landscapes, which seemed suspended in time, as in a certain moment of Noh theater, which dates to the same period."

• Phosphorus Compounds

  • Polyphosphoric acid, H(HPO3)nOH, which consists of multiple orthophosphoric acids bound together, each via a common oxygen.

• Union Victories in the Western Theater

  • Union victory in battles in the Western Theater were strategically important in defeating the Confederacy.
  • The Western Theater of the Civil War included the area east of the Mississippi River and west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • General Albert Sidney Johnston commanded many Confederate forces in the Western Theater.
  • The theater's next phase was the Vicksburg Campaign .
  • Identify the battles fought by Generals Johnston, Bragg, Hood, Sherman, Rosecrans, and Grant in the Western Theater of the Civil War.

• Stalemate in the Eastern Theater

  • Many of the Civil War's most important and bloodiest battles occurred in the eastern theater between Washington, D.C., and Richmond.
  • Operations in the interior of the Carolinas in 1865 are considered part of the western theater, while the other coastal areas along the Atlantic Ocean are included in the lower seaboard theater.
  • The theater was bound by the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The bloodiest battle of the war at Gettysburg and the bloodiest single day of the war at Antietam were both fought in this theater.
  • Identify the important battles fought and the states and generals involved in the eastern theater of the Civil War

• Cinema

  • Cartoon shorts, using the moving sketch technique of animation, were popular in movie theaters during this time.
  • Disney’s marquee character, Mickey Mouse, made his debut in "Steamboat Willie" on November 18, 1928, at the Colony Theater in New York City.
  • After the release and huge success of "The Jazz Singer" in 1927, Warner Bros. was able to acquire its own string of movie theaters, purchasing Stanley Theaters and First National Productions in 1928.
  • MGM had owned the Loews string of theaters since its formation in 1924, while the Fox Film Corporation owned the Fox Theatre chain.
  • Paramount, which had already acquired Balaban and Katz in 1926, purchased a number of theaters in the late 1920s, to the point of holding a monopoly on theaters in Detroit, Michigan.

• The Battles: 1863–1865

  • The battles of the Civil War were fought between 1861 and 1865, with the most significant battles occurring in the western and eastern theaters.
  • The major engagements can be divided into the eastern theater, including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the western theater, including the Battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg.
  • Smaller theaters included the Trans-Mississippi theater, the Pacific coast theater, and the lower seaboard theater, which included Texas.
  • While the Confederate forces had numerous successes in the eastern theater of the American Civil War, they were defeated many times in the West.
  • Summarize the battles fought in the eastern, western, Trans-Mississippi, Pacific coast, and lower seaboard theaters during the Civil War and the generals that led them

• Saloon Culture

  • The concert saloon was an American copy of the English music hall, and the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • The concert saloon, an American copy of the English music hall, was the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • Saloon entertainment was greatly influenced by "music hall," a form of British theater that was popular between 1850 and 1960.
  • This differed from the conventional theaters which, up until then, seated the audience in stalls with separate bar-rooms.
  • By the mid-nineteenth century, the immense popularity of the music hall theaters created a demand for new and catchy songs.

• Britain's Strategy

  • The Allied forces fought the Axis powers in three European sub-theaters: the Eastern Front, the Western Front, and the Mediterranean Theater.
  • The Eastern Front was by far the largest and bloodiest theater of World War II.
  • The Western Front of the European Theater comprised Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Western Germany.  
  • The involvement of the British at the Eastern Front was relatively limited comparing to the two other sub-theaters.
  • Differentiate between the Eastern Front, the Western Front, and the Mediterranean Theater

• Architecture in the Greek High Classical Period

  • The theater was designed by Polykleitos the Younger, the son of the sculptor Polykleitos, in the mid-fourth century BCE.
  • The theater seats up to 14,000 people.
  • Like all Greek theaters, this theatre was built into the hillside, which supports the stadium seating, and the theater overlooks a lush valley and mountainous landscape.
  • The theater is especially well known for its acoustics.

• Classical Greek Theater

  • Classical Greek theater, whether tragic or comic, has had great influence on modern literature and drama.
  • Two dramatic genres to emerge from this era of Greek theater were tragedy and comedy, both of which rose to prominence around 500-490 BCE.
  • Sometimes referred to as Attic tragedy, Greek tragedy is an extension of the ancient rites carried out in honor of Dionysus, and it heavily influenced the theater of ancient Rome and the Renaissance.
  • According to Aristotle, Aeschylus also expanded the number of actors in theater to allow for the dramatization of conflict on stage.
  • For the first time, love became a principal element in this type of theater.