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S: (n) humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)) "the college of arts and sciences"
S: (n) neoclassicism (revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation)
S: (n) classicism, classicalism (a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms) "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans"
S: (n) Romanticism, Romantic Movement (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization) "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"
S: (n) interior design (the art of designing the interior decoration for a house, office, or other architectural space)
S: (n) English (the discipline that studies the English language and literature)
S: (n) history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings) "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
S: (n) art history (the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture)
S: (n) iconology (the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms))
S: (n) chronology (the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events)
S: (n) glottochronology (the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language) "he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages"
S: (n) architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings) "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"
S: (n) urban planning (the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities)
S: (n) landscape architecture (the art, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land and the design of large man-made constructs)
S: (n) stopping (the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch) "the violinist's stopping was excellent"
S: (n) caroling (singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas))
S: (n) crooning (the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner)
S: (n) crooning (singing in a soft low tone) "her crooning soon put the child to sleep"
S: (n) scat, scat singing (singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument)
S: (n) adagio (a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers)
S: (n) break dancing, break dance (a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground; normally performed to the rhythm of rap music)
S: (n) courante (a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats)
S: (n) fan dance (a solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness)
S: (n) strip, striptease, strip show (a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music) "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
S: (n) bubble dance (a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans)
S: (n) twist (social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s) "they liked to dance the twist"
S: (n) rumba, rhumba (a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement)
S: (n) mambo (a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba)
S: (n) method acting, method (an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed)
S: (n) business, stage business, byplay (incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect) "his business with the cane was hilarious"
S: (n) shtik, schtik, shtick, schtick ((Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention) "play it straight with no shtik"
S: (n) bioethics (the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences)
S: (n) neuroethics (the study of ethical implications of treatments for neurological diseases)
S: (n) casuistry (moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas)
S: (n) probabilism (a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable)
S: (n) eudemonism, endaemonism (an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason)
S: (n) hedonism (an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good)
S: (n) aesthetics, esthetics ((art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)) "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value"
S: (n) jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy (the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do)
S: (n) contract law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts)
S: (n) corporation law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing corporations)
S: (n) matrimonial law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing matrimony)
S: (n) patent law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patents)
S: (n) Sinology (the study of Chinese history and language and culture)
S: (n) stemmatology, stemmatics (the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)) "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"
S: (n) trivium ((Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence)
S: (n) quadrivium ((Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy)