Performing Arts

Question 1

Elements of dance

Answer 1

1. Dance (set or area that surrounds the body)
2. Time – moving to the beat and music
3. Choreography- of steps of the dance
4. Levels – does it happen high, does it happen low
5. Force/energy

Question 2

Dance movements

Answer 2

Axial – movements that occur in place such as a pirouette(spin) or twirl

Locomotor- movements in which dancer travels to a new location (big jump)

Grand Jette- jump in the air and twirl

Question 3

Teaching dance

Answer 3

Call out dances – line dancing is easy to teach

Question 4

Esthetic appreciation of dance

Answer 4

Through their activities, movements can represent ideas and symbols

Question 5

Dance and culture

Answer 5

Can create emotion, right of passage, religious purposes

Example: rain dance

Question 6

Styles of dance

Answer 6

Performance dance (theatrical dance): ballet, jazz and tap

Ballroom dance – balls were held by nobility, waltz, nobles and aristocrat socialized, A queuing system, hustle swing, salsa, tango, mango, waltz. Dance is rotted in the time and place it was invented

Folk dance – traditions of commoners, coloring morris dance, square dancing.

Chain dance- from the commoners in mid evil Europe

Asia- musical theater form, puppetry, single style
China- the noe, and nukki

Question 7

Dances can serve as commentary

Answer 7

Cake walk- Mockin make fun of plantation owners. Social statements, feelings in particular feature

Question 8

Music

Answer 8

Art of sound and silence

Question 9

Elements of music

Answer 9

Pitch, rhythm, timbre, texture, dynamics, structure

Question 10

Pitch

Answer 10

How high or low a note is, based on the frequency of a sound and does not relate to the volume

Question 11

Ability

Answer 11

Singing a tune of the song in its different pitches and ranged sequentially

Question 12

Harmony

Answer 12

Sounds of different pitches are arranged in relationship to each other

Question 13

Dissonance

Answer 13

When pictures are arranged outside the excepted rules of order. Often occurs when someone plays the wrong Note

Question 14

Rhythm

Answer 14

Repetitive timing of the beat

Question 15

Tempo

Answer 15

Speed or pace, how fast or slow is the rhythm

Question 16

Linto (tempo)

Answer 16

Slow

Question 17

Largo (tempo)

Answer 17

Very slow

Question 18

Legro (tempo)

Answer 18

Fast

Question 19

Presto (tempo)

Answer 19

Very fast

Question 20

Meter

Answer 20

Way in which lines of music is divided – grouping of beats

Question 21

Articulation

Answer 21

Way in which notes are separate or blended together

Question 22

Timbre

Answer 22

Unique sound produced by a voice or instrument

Question 23

Texture

Answer 23

The overall sound quality of a piece affected how the voices are or not combined

Question 24

Subgroups of texture

Answer 24

Monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic, Heterophonic

Question 25

Monophonic

Answer 25

One voice, one Melody by itself

Example: soloist singing by themselves

Question 26

Polyphonic

Answer 26

Independent Melody

Example: back ups singers sing a rift variation to the main singer

Question 27

Homophonic

Answer 27

Multiple voices, one leads and others for my background accompaniment

Question 28

Heterophonic

Answer 28

musical styles multiple voices performing same melody but slight variation

Question 29

Dynamics

Answer 29

Softness or loudness of a sound in terms of its volume (piano, forte)

Question 30

Structure

Answer 30

Overall way a piece is arranged

Question 31

Basic techniques for teaching music to children

Answer 31

Simple, easy to learn instruments – drums for rhythms, xylophones – pitches and succession

Vocal pieces that are easy to remember and a limited range

Add movement to the music -wheels on the bus with movements

Teach music and cultures together

Question 32

Music notation

Answer 32

Represents the elements of music symbolically (how high or low the note is)

Question 33

Time value

Answer 33

Duration for which a note or rest is held

Question 34

Half note time with dot

Answer 34

1.5 of the note’s value

Question 35

rest

Answer 35

silent beats

Question 36

time signature

Answer 36

represents as a time structure.
Numerator tells us the number of beats in a measure.
Denominator tells us what kind of note receives one beat (Example: half note vs. quarter note)

Question 37

flats

Answer 37

b
Changes note to a half-step lower.
Farm Boys Eat Apple Dumplings Greedily

Question 38

sharp

Answer 38

Changes note to a half-step higher.

Go Down and Eat Breakfast

Question 39

Western styles of music

Answer 39

classical, bach, beethoven
Folk-music of the common man, parent, children
Jazz- imrov style of music
Blues- underlies modern american music, rock’n’roll, country

Question 40

Eastern styles of music

Answer 40

Traditional Asian and Middle Eastern styles are microtonal.
Most traditional Eastern music does not have harmony; same melody being played with slight variation (heterotonic texture)

Question 41

Important elements of Theater

Answer 41

Acting- internal acting style, believe and act as though they’re the character
External-mechanical style of acting, don’t need to feel it internally
Directing, mapping movement, decides staging/creative designer
Design-sets, lighting, makeup, settings, script writing

Question 42

Styles of theater

Answer 42

Aristotelian- Aristotle
3 unities time- everything should happen in one period of time, place, one location
Action- should be a comedy (protagonist and good people win) or tragedy (protagonist looses)

Question 43

Daisxmacia

Answer 43

God from the machine, Greek drama reverence from the gods lowered down on the machine (something outside the character resolves

Question 44

Eastern style of theater

Answer 44

Kabuki- Japanese traditional theater incorporates music and puppetry
Melodramatic-heightened drama
Skillful action and dance

Question 45

Shakespearean Theater

Answer 45

most influential play writer of the modern era, plot divides, periods, comedies (midsummer night’s dream), history (Henry the 5th, macbeth)