Performing Arts

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Music

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The art of combining sounds to create a piece that is pleasing to people's sense of hearing

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Sounds

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Medium of Music

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Melody

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Succession of sound from the beginning to the end of a musical piece.

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Pitch

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the beginning note/ chord of a musical piece.

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Harmony

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combination of different voices/ musical sounds simultaneously sung or sounded.

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Rhythm

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Variation of the accentuation of sounds over time or the overall beat of a musical piece.

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Meter and Tempo

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Subelements of Rhythm

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Meter

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number of beats in a measure

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Tempo

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Fastness or slowness of the piece.

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Dynamics

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refers to the loudness or softness of sounds.

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Color / Tone

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known as timbre, referred to as the quality of voice / sound

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Form

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structure of a particular musical piece, how its parts are put together to make the whole.

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Texture

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Number of voices apprehended to at the same time. (thin or thick) (light alor heavy)

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Style

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pertains to the genre/ type of music the piece / song belongs to.

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Monophonic Music

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the use of only one voice

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Medieval Era / Middle Ages

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approximately from 450 A.D - 1500 or 5th to 15th centuries

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Medieval Era

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People are highly religious But are highly superstitious too.

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Upper and Lower Class

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Classes of people in Medieval Era

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Guido

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an Italian monk from Arezzo, Italy who developed a system of musical notations.

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Gregorian Chants

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Earliest recorded musical pieces. Liturgical chants originally from the Catholic Church, sang in Latin and in Monodic manner.

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Pope Gregory I

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Gregorian was derived in the name of ?

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Meditation and Recollection

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Uses of Gregorian Chants.

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Renaissance Era

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approximately from 1300 - 1700 or 14th to 17th centuries

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Renaissance Era

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Both the fields of arts and sciences flourished. reign of Wueen Elizabeth I was in this era.

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Polyphonic Music

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use of more than one voice/ sound.

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Josquin des Prez

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Who developed the pilyphonic music ?

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Secular Music

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entertainers came out

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Madrigals

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Sang on polyphonic and in a secular theme.

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Baroque Era

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approximately from 1600 to 1750

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Baroque Era

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Era of extravagance or luxuriousness. materialistic.

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Polyphonic & Secular Music

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Developments in Renaissance Era

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Absolute . Orchestra . Ballroom Music

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Developments in Baroque Era

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Absolute Music

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music that is not expilcitly about anything .

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Classical Era

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approximately from 1750- 1820

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Homophonic Melodies

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there was a single melody that all the instruments played

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Piano

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Classical Era : what instrument was used in performances.

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Ludwig van Beethoven & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Greatest Pioneers of Classical Music

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Romantic Era

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approximately from 1820-1910

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Romantic Era

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Transition to modern era . Music elwas for the purpose of expressing feelings.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Who wrote the first Romantic Music

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Eroica Symphony

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Symphony No. 3

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Program Music

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Opposite of Absolute music

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Program Music

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a type of music that attempts to musically render a narrative or it usually tells a story

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Representational Music

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It has a theme,subject, and a plot.

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Modern Era

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20th Century onwards

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Modern era

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Modernism reiterates the practice of Innovation

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Modern Era

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Music is not a Static Phenomenon but is Historical and development.

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Modern Era

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period of change and development in musical language, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music.

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Stringed Instruments

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those that produce sounds by strumming or hitting thr strings.

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Stummed & Bowed

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two categories of Stringed instruments

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Wind Instruments

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those that produce sounds by incorporating air into their body.

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Wwoodwinds & Brass

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2 categories of Wind instruments

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Percussions

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those that produce sounds by being hit or clashed together

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Keyboards

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those keys being pressed to produce sound like piano

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Drama

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a written work of a writer which is intended to be performed on syage or other acting venues or media like television, radio or films.

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Theater arts

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all creative aspects done for and in a live stage of acting

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Combined arts

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presentations integrating the different performing arts as well asbother forms of art like visual arts.

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Cinema

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a term that includes many types of films or movies such as cartons, newsreel, commercials,etc.

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Primitive. Ancient greek. Ancient Rome. Medieval . Renaisance.

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Sequence of time in ACTING

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Dance

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first art of the theatre. and is the by-product of imitation.

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Dionysus

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God of fertility (wine,agriculture,and sexuality)

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Thespis

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True founder of TRAGEDY

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Tragedy and Comedy

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Two general forms of Drama

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Dithyramb

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a choral ode song to the gods

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Greek mythology

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a collection of the legends and stories behind the greek gods.

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Thespis

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Who is considered as the first actor and the first playwright in drama ?

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Tragedies

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What type of dramas did Aeschylus,Sophocles,Euripides write ?

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Aeschylus

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Who was the first playwright whose work has survived ?

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Agamemnon. Libation Bearers. Eumenides

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Trilogy of Aeschylus

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Second Actor

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What was Aeschylus major contribution to the art of writing a play ?

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Oedipus Tyrannos

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What is Sophocles' most important drama ?

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Third actor

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What was Sophocles' contribution to the art of writing a play ?

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Deus ex machina

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it is a playwriting term used to describe a contrived ending.

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Euripides

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With which Greek playwright Deus ex machina associated with ?

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Trilogy

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a set of three short plays tied together by a common plt line,character,or idea.

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Satyr

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generally believed to have been a comic treatment of the serious material covered in the tragedies.

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The Cyclops

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Only satyr survived ?

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Aristophanes

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Who is the only greek comedy playwright whose work has survived ?

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Political satire, high comedy

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What type of comedies did Aristophanes wrote?

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Menander

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Who was the Author of new Greek Comedy ?

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Mime

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a drama performance with emphasis on varied facial expressions, played without masks, and plot.

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Pantomime

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a solo performance with gestures alone as a text was read by a reader and the stories from history and mythology.

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Plautus

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an Itlaian jack of all trades, the most popular of the Roman playwrights.

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Seneca

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an important writer of Roman tragedy and a playwright.

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Seneca

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He uses 5-act plays, rhetorical dialogue, and a frequent use of messenger.

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Mystery . Miracle . Morality

PLAYS

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three kinds of plays that emerged from the church.

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Mystery Play

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the major form of medival drama

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Miracle play

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a dramatization of the lives of early saints and of miracles wrought through intercession, usually performed on the Saint's feats day.

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Morality Play

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a play portraying the trials and temptations of ordinary man.

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Script. Actor. Costumes,props,Backdrop. Technical Aspect.

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Essential elements of drama and Acting

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Script

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acts as a guide for instructions and dialogues.

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Actor

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This gives life to the story