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Lesson VI: An Introduction in the World of TYPES OF PERFORMING ARTS
PERFORMING ARTS
- Music
- Spoken Word Poetry
- Dance
PERFORMING ARTS
- Theatre Arts
- Performing arts are a form of art in
Lesson VII: THE AURAL REALM
which artists use their voices, bodies, or
different objects to show artistic Learning to Listen - All sounds are a form of
expression. energy produced by the vibration of an object.
- The performing arts encourages a The vibration makes the air around the object
person to explore their emotions, vibrate too. These air vibrations are called sound
expand their imagination and help them waves.
develop their own, unique voice.
SOUND WAVES - A sound wave is the pattern of
- Each discipline of music, dance and
disturbance caused by the movement of energy
drama engage a person’s brain, body
traveling through a medium (such as air, water,
and emotions in different ways to
or any other liquid or solid matter) as it
encourage their confidence and find joy
propagates away from the source of the sound.
in self-expression.
What is the difference of "hearing" from
3 REASONS WHY
"listening?
1. Self-Discovery and Expression - The theatre,
- Hearing is the process, function, or
dance and other performing arts can teach
power of perceiving sound. Listening is
people how to express themselves
paying attention to a message in order to
effectively, and can also be a tool through
hear it, understand it, and physically or
which people with disabilities can
verbally respond to it.
communicate.
2. History & Education - It helps us to MUSIC - Music is a combination of sounds and
understand the people around us and how silence. Traditionally, noises were not part of
they might be expected to react in certain music, but nowadays composers use sounds,
situations. By teaching us a variety of silence and even noises in many different ways
transferable abilities, the performing arts in their compositions to create new musical
can deepen our understanding of the world experiences.
around us.
Examples: Elements of Music
Poverty, Social Inequality, Injustice, SOGIE, RHYTHM - Rhythm is the element of "TIME" in
Corruption, Drug Use, Sexual Violence, and music. When you tap your foot to the music, you
Extra-Judicial Killings. are "keeping the beat" or following the structural
3. Creativity - Without a creative voice, a rhythmic pulse of the music.
society may become all but dead inside, and
a social group without any creativity is likely DYNAMICS - All musical aspects relating to the
to be repressive and tyrannical rather than a relative loudness (or quietness) of music fall
force for good. under the general element of DYNAMICS.
DYNAMIC LEVELS
pianissimo [pp] = very quiet supported by a less intricate harmonic
accompaniment underneath.
piano [p] = quiet
Polyphonic = Music with two or more
mezzo-piano [mp] = moderately quiet
independent melodies sounding at the same
mezzo-forte [mf] = moderately loud time. The most intricate types of polyphonic
texture— canon and fugue—may introduce
forte [f] = loud three, four, five or more independent melodies
fortissimo [ff] = very loud simultaneously! This manner of writing is called
COUNTERPOINT.
Periods of Music
DYNAMICS
MIDDLE AGES (450 - 14500)
cresendo = gradually getting louder
An era dominated by Catholic sacred music,
decrescendo = gradually getting quieter which began as simple chant but grew in
accent = "punching" or "leaning into" a note complexity in the 13th to 15th centuries by
harder to temporarily emphasize it experiments in harmony and rhythm.
MELODY - Melody is the LINEAR/HORIZONTAL Renaissance (1450 - 1600)

presentation of pitch (the word used to describe A more personal style emerged in this era with a
the highness or lowness of a musical sound). greater focus on Humanism, and a rebirth of
Many famous musical compositions have a learning and exploration. Considered as the
memorable melody or theme. "Golden Age of Vocal Music"
Conjunct = smooth: easy to sing or play Baroque (1600 - 1750)
Disjunct = disjointedly ragged or jumpy: difficult This era—the last great age of aristocratic rule—
to sing or play is represented by extremely ornate and
HARMONY - Harmony is the VERTICALIZATION of elaborate approaches to the arts. This era saw
the pitch. Often, harmony is thought of as the art the rise of instrumental music, the invention of
of combining pitches into chords (several notes the modern violin family and the creation of the
played simultaneously as a "block"). These first orchestras.
chords are usually arranged into sentence-like Classic (1750 - 1820)
patterns called chord progressions.
The music of this politically turbulent era
TEXTURE - Texture refers to the number of focused on structural unity, clarity and balance.
individual musical lines (melodies) and the The new expressive and dramatic approaches to
relationship these lines have to one another. composition and performance that were
Monophonic = Music with only one note developed in this era became the standards that
sounding at a time all "Classical" music be judged by great
composers
Homophonic = Music with two or more notes
sounding at the same time, but generally Romantic (1820 - 1900)
featuring a prominent melody in the upper part, This era witnessed an explosion of flamboyance,
nationalism, the rise of "superstar" performers,
and concerts aimed at middle-class "paying"
audiences. Orchestral, theatrical and soloistic
music grew to spectacular heights of personal
expression.
Modern (1900 - present)
The defining feature of modern music (and

modern art generally) is the breaking-down of all
traditional aesthetic conventions, thereby
unleashing complete freedom in all aesthetic
dimensions, including melody, rhythm, and
chord progression. ... Even the very notion of
what constitutes "music" was redefined.
Modern
POP, JAZZ, ROCK, COUNTRY, ELECTRONIC, and

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Lesson VI: An Introduction in the World of TYPES OF PERFORMING ARTS

MELODY - Melody is the LINEAR/HORIZONTAL Renaissance (1450 - 1600)

Modern (1900 - present)

The defining feature of modern music (and

POP, JAZZ, ROCK, COUNTRY, ELECTRONIC, and

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