Step 4B - Explore the event's genre(s) through artistic domain categories Flashcards
Recording/Collections
go for integral performances; can design an analytical performance context; gathering a collection of similar items
go for integral performances
video recordings help get overall flow of performance through time, seeing sound production, watching movements and relationships, observing creation of visual objects; audio recordings useful for transcribing patterns
can design an analytical performance context
video recordings idea for getting feedback from others later, for analyzing specific techniques, for clear documentation of specific movement for the future; also for transcription
gathering a collection of similar items (source and content)
Unseth (2008) - collecting proverbs (group, suggest topics)
Music in an event
-Shape of event through time (sources)
Shelemay (2001), Apel (1972), Nettl (1956)
Shelemay (2001)
definition of phrase: brief section of music, analogous to a phrase of spoken language, that sounds somewhat complete in itself, while not self-sufficient
Apel (1972)
definition of strophic: “stanzas sung to same music, contrast song with new music for each stanza [through-composed]”
Nettl (1956)
litany-type = one short phrase reiterated throughout
Music in an event
-Performance Features Categories (source and content)
Apel (1972) - texture = horizontal and vertical relationships of musical materials, comparable to the weave of a fabric
Music in an event
-Content (source)
Richards (1972)
Richards (1972)
melody’s shape and rhythm can be influenced by stress, linguistic tone, part of speech, discourse features, and the like
Music in an event
-Underlying Symbolic systems (source and content)
Apel (1972) - meter = underlying pattern of beats, by which time span of a piece of music or a section thereof is organized
Drama in an event
-shape of event through time (sources)
McKee (1997), McLaughlin (1997)
McKee (1997) - drama, shape of event through time
structure = “a selection of events from characters’ life stories that is composed into a strategic sequence to arouse specific emotions and to express a specific view of life”
McLaughlin (1997) - drama, shape of event through time
dramatic intensity curve = shows rise and fall of action across time of the play
Drama in an event
-participant organization (sources)
Ball (1984), Kirby (1972), McLaughlin (1997), Petersen (2010); Barber, Collins, and Ricard (1997)
Ball (1984) - drama, participant organization
director helps make more meaningful; “helps the actor choose an objective and then encourages him to play it with all his heart”
Kirby (1972) - drama, participant organization
example of nonmatrixed performer = Japanese kabuki theater, stagehands moving props, seen but ignored by audience
McLaughlin (1997) - drama, participant organization
breaking the fourth wall; audience and performers interact, acknowledge one another’s presence
Petersen (2010) - drama, participant organization
example of Jula granddaughter imitating deceased grandfather and visitors could address her as if she were he
Barber, Collins, and Ricard (1997) - drama, participant organization
example of fourth wall broken in both dimensions—play Orphan do not glance from Ghana, audience members even come on stage to interact
Drama in an event
-performance feature categories (sources)
Schechner (2006), Frakes (2005)
Schechner (2006) - drama, performance features categories
Brechtian acting (interprets role, but stays outside of it in terms of commenting on it—quotes the character rather than being the character); both Brechtian and codified emotion is “displayed” rather than “experienced”
Frakes (2005) - drama, performance features categories
- strength/volume—must be loud enough for everyone to hear; “explosive” volume in shouts; “expulsive” volume releases air from lungs gradually to prolong sentence (like singer holding longer note)
- tempo/rate/pace includes consideration of speech of speaking words but also of length of silence between words
Drama in an event
-Content (source)
McLaughlin (1997)