Visual and Performing arts Flashcards

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what are basic techniques for teaching music?

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- repetitive lyrics and melody - use easy to learn instruments like the xylophone, drum,(percussion instruments) or vocal pieces with easy to remember lyrics and limited range requirements (not to high, not to low) - good beginning music activities also offer opportunities for children to physicalize elements of music, and to use music as a way to learn about various cultures.

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Represents elements of music symbolically: Music notes

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1. how long we hold a note 2. The duration of the note 3. The pitch of the note (how high or low the note is) The music notation are key to how to play a melody. It is music language, helping people understand what they need to play

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duration for which a note or rest is held

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represented as a fraction * the bottom of the fraction tells you how many beats the whole note gets* Example: 3/4 the 4 represents the amount of beats which is 4 beats Numerator = tells us the number of beats in a measure denominator = tells us what kind of note receives one beat ( half note vs quarter note)

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The lines are called the staff and the lines that go vertically are dividing it into measures and if you count the number of notes the beats that are in each measure youll see that its the same.

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- They are microtonal which means has lots of notes | - nuanced variations between the pitches

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middle east = oud india = sitar mediterranean (and middle east) = bag pipe Asia = Xylophone Spain ( with orgins of the middle east) = guitar

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- Acting: actors embody characters. - Directing: STAGE - Design: SET - Scriptwriting: Written

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internal and external acting Internal acting = pshylogical acting, person tries to really believe they are the character, act like the character and feel what the character feels. (genuine performance is given) External acting = mechanical style, outward style, feeling the emotions actually interfere with your ability to give a good performance. dont need to feel it internally

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- the job of a director is to BLOCK the action, sculpt the performances, decide the staging and oversee the creative design of the production.

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it is a directors job, referring to how you position the actors on the stage and how you map their movements they divide the stage up into actual squares so youd have to block. front center, front left

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It is the Set as a whole. including lights, props, makeup, costumes

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Theatrical pieces are typically written in acts and may or may not follow typical patterns of dramatic structure

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where we learn about the characters and the setting

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whatever starts the main conflict of the story , the COMPLICATION

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the back and forth battle between the antagonist an protagonist

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- exposition - inciting incident - rising action - climax - denouement/falling action

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when eventually someone wins, the protagonist are victorious

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not every story has it but it is after everything

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- characterization | - creating a situation in which a character must make an important choice

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how character changes

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how a character is portrayed like the characters age, where they work, what they dress like, family background

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- activites can be scripted or improvisational -if they are scriptes the vocab and amount of dialouge they have to memorize should be age appropriate -improvisation: make up the story IMPROV = MAKE IT UP

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- It has a large cast of characters, many speaking parts and opportunities to involve large groups of children in musical numbers - its vocab is simple and lines are easy to memorize - offers creative oppurtunities for costumes and set design and for teaching stage craft - its appropriate for diverse group of students

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- Aristotelian: involved constraining stories to fit within the three unities of time, place and action. - Kabuki: japenese tradition involving ELOBORATE,colorful make up and costumes, MELODRAMATIC plotlines, skillful dance and action. (RIDICOULOUS: costumes and sets are overboard) - Shakespearean: based on words of william shakespear, most influential playwright off the modern era

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heigtened drama

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1. Proscenium Staging: Traditional and has a clear separation between audience and actors. (traditional theater room) 2. Open staging: there are 3 full sides of audience. 3. Theatre in the round: audience is surrounding stages all 4 sides 4. Enviornmental staging: not really a stage more of street performance. There is no clear distinction between audience and actors.

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balance refers to the fill in space. * Lets say we have a frame here and in the frame we have a subject. In this case it's a man the subject is whatever the main point of emphasis is, what we're meant to look at in the frame. If the frame is balanced there is going to be some subject matter on both sides of the frame. if it is only one side it is imbalanced.

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Repeats something and emphasizes it

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different colors opposite of each other. The subject/colors stand out from one another * You an draw trees in the background for a more balanced frame if they are all covered in snow except for one then one tree pops out at you because of contrast. If the person in the picture was very bright and then everything in the back was a lot darker that would be an example of chiaroscuro. Contrast is also a way to create emphasis. you can contrast shapes if all shapes in the drawing are round except for one that is angular. the angular one kind of pops out to you because of contrast its different in terms of its shape.

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your eye is drawn to it. it is the focal point to concentrate on a specific thing. *emphasis is what your eye is drawn to in the image or painting. If one tree is different color than the other trees it stands out. Another way to create emphasis is by having something more prominent in the foreground, having something more centered in the frame.

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common theme/ one theme * This term means how all the elements in the piece fit together. Is one part real cartoony and the rest realistic? in which case there is a disunity there. But if all the elements fit together then you have unity. There are unity of colors, shapes, subject matter

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any type of lines you may see in a piece, curvy lines, straight lines. * ~~~~~~~ blurry lines like these can mean movement

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Primary and Secondary colors. Warm colors and cool colors. ( KNOW EACH ONE OF THESE) Primary= red, yellow, blue (you can make other colors by using these and mixing them together) Secondary= green, violet, orange Warm colors= reds, oranges, yellows Cool colors= blues, greens, violets * colors can have emotional connotations but it depends on how they are being applies. Red can symbolize passion or anger. Blue can symbolize calm or sadness.

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Primary= red, yellow, blue (you can make other colors by using these and mixing them together)

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Secondary= green, violet, orange * you can get these colors by mixing primary colors together

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reds. oranges, and yellows

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blues, greens, and violets

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how specific the color is. *Color value: means we have different hues of colors you could have a deep, rich red, or you could have a very light pastel pink color. Both of those are the same essential color but a very different color value, very different hue.

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positive and negative space - the positive space is the space occupied by the subject of our painting, the focal of the art. - negative space is everything else. * You may have seen an optical illusion before that looks its vase of two people looking at each other. This plays with the idea of positive VS negative space if we consider the are inside the vase to be the negative space then the outside of it is positive space in which case you see the 2 people about to kiss but if you consider the inside of the vase tp be the positive space and the outside the negative space then you would think of it as the vase.

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rough or smooth texture * you can create a rough texture by globbing paint on but there is also ways to create an illusion of a rough texture which is by usinf a lot of different paint colors so a lot of speckling creates the idea of rough texture. Whereas a homogeneous or singuale color creates the illusion of smooth texture.

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different shapes used to form things * the peiece may have a lot of curved shapes, circles, and ovals.

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materials that are used to make the art piece

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- you can create a flat effect by using a flat surface this naturally exists when artist use canvas. - keeping the art 2 dimensional so if the artist doesnt use techniques to create the illusion of depth then the painting will look naturally flat

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- Imagine we have a circle and a trianle that is behind it, the circle has been overlapped over the triangle . the easiest way to create this illusion is by OVERLAPPING. - Next we would use a SCALE. imagine there is a barn in the backgorund and then a person lounging on the ground. the person appears to be closer to use becasue of SCALE - LINEAR PERSPECTIVE this is when we use a vanishing point and is a typical feature correlated to LINEAR PERSPECTIVE - ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE: with atmospheric perspective we play on the idea that as things get further away from us there is less contrat in them, they are more greyed out. That is because there is more atmosphere we aslso should note that things get futher away we start to lose the warm colors and are left with more cool colors. EX if you look at a mountain in the distance the mountain might appear blue or violet but if you looj upclose the mountain is not blue or violet. It is brown and green. the reason to this is because it looks blue in the distance because of the wavelengths of light travle. Shorter wavelengths are things like blues and violets, travel further than longer wavelengths are things like reds and orange and yellows. The deeper you get the more you start to lose the reds and the yellos and then you lose the greens and then you lose the blues and the violets. THE USE OF THESE DIFFERENT COLORS AS WE GET FURTHER AWAY IT GETS MORE TOWARDS TO THE BLUES BUT ALSO WE WOULD MAKE THIS LESS DEFINED BACK HERE A LITTLE MORE GREYED OUT A LITTLE LESS CONTRAST BOTH OF THESE IDEAS TOGETHER CREATE THE IDEA OF ATMOSHEPERIC PERSPECTIVE. THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE DIFFICULT TECNIQUES

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Static= still dynammic= moving. STATIC EFFECT - Things that make a painting look static is if the lines are very well-defined and kind of crisp. - If people or objects ar standing in a way that they would normally rest with gravity DYNAMIC EFFECT - everything in a painting is static, so you have to use techniques to make something look dynamic. - blur lines can infer that somethin gis moving ~~~ - position in a way it normally couldnt sit with gravity unless it was moving.

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1. Classical: refrencing the work of ancient greeks an the romains, the persians. ( mostly sculptures), anatomical correctness, beautification 2. Cubism: cubist, Pablo Pcasso. geometric shapes, angular shapes. 3. Abstract: famous abstract painter, Jackson Pollock. there is no specific subject being painted , its shapes, colors, etc. 4. Baroque: popular around the 16th and 17th centries in Europe. encouraged by the church. lots of religous themes. 5. Impressionism: really realistic. Trying to give a general impression of something. 6. Expressionism: Munch an Munch very faous expressionist. focuses on a single moment of profound emotion or the expression of human emotion. 7. Realism: trying to depict things in a relaistic way, alot of attention to details and duplicate. 8. Surrealism:things you wouldnt ever really see in the real world like melthing clocks, lots of symbols. 9. Dadaism: very notion of what is art and that anything can be art. 10. photography

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Overlapping: In a drawing or painting overlapping estabblsuhes a feeling of depth

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Character development

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Rhytm regular repetition=keeping the same rythm

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Use minimal number of adjectives

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The structural organization of a work.. Structural form

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Circle Folk dance is a form of cultural dance and the cirle is univeral symbol of aniect sacred cutlural dances from around the world. AROUND THE WORLD, WORLD IS A CIRCLE

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The steps of a dance that was put together for performance. Compisng dances

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Gypisies of Spain, the style of dance is characterized by forceful rythms, hand clapping, rapid foot movements.

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Fertility and rebirth.

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Time all music moves in time.

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String. wihtout a strinf section it would be a band not an orceshtra

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mark off the grouping of beats.

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African American woek songs and spirtuals

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Harmonica A functional folk instrument is a familiar HOUSEHOLD item that is used to make music

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The invention of talking films (talkies)

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theather was first known in acient Greece

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an imaginary line that controls the path of eye movement through composition

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- Ancient Native American dance is rich in symbolism and continues to influence traditinal native American culture. All ritual Native American dances are sacred in nature and have a cermonial meaning. Native American continue to honor thier ancestors through dance as a physical manifestation of the sacred mysteries of life. The funstion of traditional ritual dancing among Native Americans is important for celebrating, healing, preparing for events (battle, harvert, rainfall), and honoring the deceased. These wonderfal rhytmic dances are accompanied by chants, costumes, prayer, and cermoney. Often perfprmed at Powwow. - The cermonial dance for fertility was symbolic of the mystery of the giving of life and a celebration of the joy of lliving. Fertility dances were perfomed by many NA tribes througout the ages. Althoug ritual dances varied by region, these dances represents the most basic human concerns and regognized human dependence on the natural world while honoring natures elements: earth, air, water, and sun. Ritual dance represented the natural rhytm of the seasons (dances were most commmon before the planting and harvet seasons) and was an attept to assure prosperity for present and future gernerations - Some dances were inteded to create hunting magic.Male dancers, dressed in animal skins and adorned with body paint, would dance and chant to create the proper magic for good hunting. The animal dance was the linkbetween the natural and the supaernatural worlds. Their gods were called upon to protect the hunters and provide game for a successful hunt.

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1. The string category is composed of instruments that produce their tones by the vibrations of one or more strings. These vibrations are caused by plucking, scaping, or bowing the strings. Two instuments of the string fmaily include the violion and cello. 2. The woodwind catergory got its name because its insturments were originally made of wood. Now some also are made of metal or other materials, Woodwind players produce sounds by blowing through a reed or reeds or over a hole. Two woodwind insturments are clarinet and oboe 3. Brasses are another category of insturments. The players places his/her lips against the mouthpiece in such a way that they vibrate when the player blows thus producing sound. Sounds are changed by tension of the way lips, opening or closing a valve. or lsiding a piece of tubing. Two examples of brasses are trumpets and trombone 4. Percussion instruments produce sound by being shaken or struck. two examplles are the snare drum and the tambourine. in an orcehstra the paiano is usually included in the percussion section

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- Stage lighting dramatically enhances the artistic effect of any dramatic presentation. Modern theathers are generally designed to be light tight. The lighting director or designer can fully illumnate, partially illuminate, or withold light to focus attention on a specfic actor and control the visual focus of the audience. - Front lights, sidelights, and top lights in back are interconnected in order to provide a coordinate visual and sensory effect for a scence. Front lights illuminate the actors faces. Sidelights give the action dimension and top lights in back pull the actors away from the set. Theathre lighting has the capacity to transform white light into a mood-altering array of colors. The proper use of the mixing of light can manipulate emotions and allow the audience to more fully experience the depth of a charater and the mood of a place.

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- Both operas and musicals are staged stories. Both employ costumes, scenery, soloist, dancers, and chorus. Certainly music is the medium that connects all elements in both. However there are major differences between the two theatrical forms. - In opera there may be spoken dialouge but usually the music is continous. The emphasis in an operatic stage performance is less upon dialouge, instead the vocal skills of the singers are displayed. - In comparison a musical is a form in which there is much spoken dialouge highlighted with songs. The focus in a musical is upon the acting and story line, rather than the singer. Since its beginnings musical theather has integrated drama, music, chorus dancing, and soloist.