Art Appreciation and Music Education Flashcards

This set of vocabulary flashcards covers content from the film 'Every Child is Special', Pangasinan heritage stories, theories on art appropriation/improvisation, and the genres and elements of music.

Dyslexia

A learning condition characterized by struggles with reading, writing, and other school activities, which was misunderstood as laziness in the character Ishaan Awasthi in the film Every Child is Special.

Ram Shankar Nikumbh

The new art teacher in Every Child is Special who recognizes Ishaan's learning difficulties and uses patience and creative activities to help him discover his strengths.

Pogoruac

A place in Burgos, Pangasinan, whose name is believed to have come from the abundance of "pugo" (quail) and "uwak" (crow).

Gawgaw

An old ritual in Burgos, Pangasinan, where a mixture of oil, vinegar, and chicken's blood is used to mark a cross on relatives' foreheads after a burial for protection from harm.

Art Appropriation

The deliberate act of taking possession of images or artworks to use them in one's own art without stealing, often to stir controversy or comment on the source.

Public Domain Works

Artworks that are no longer protected by copyright due to their age, such as pieces by Leonardo da Vinci, making them legal to use.

Fair Use

A legal exception allowing the use of copyrighted material if the new work transforms the original significantly through parody, critique, or education.

Art Improvisation

A creative process involving emergent and unscripted behavior where actions are taken contingently in response to real-time situations rather than following a predetermined plan.

Cultural Appropriation

Taking and using components of another's culture, often by someone in a position of privilege, without paying homage or respecting the origin and significance of those elements.

Object Appropriation

A type of cultural appropriation occurring when the possession of a tangible work of art, such as a sculpture, is transferred from one culture to another.

Content Appropriation

An artist's reuse of an intangible idea like a musical composition, story, or poem first expressed by an artist from another culture.

Style Appropriation

The practice where artists take stylistic elements from another culture without reproducing a specific work, such as non-African-American musicians composing jazz.

Motif Appropriation

A form of appropriation where artists are influenced by basic motifs of another culture but do not create works in that culture's overall style.

Subject Appropriation

Also called 'voice appropriation,' it occurs when outsiders represent the lives of insiders of another culture in the first person.

Genre

A group of musical styles having a common tradition or common fundamental values, similar to a genus in taxonomy.

Rock

A music genre originating from a fusion of Blues, Country, and Jazz, typified by the extensive use of the snare drum.

Jazz

A genre developed among the Southern US black community that emphasizes improvisation and simultaneously played rhythms.

Western Classical

A style of European music that values tradition and set renditions of melodies with very little scope for improvisation.

Reggae

An instrumentation-based genre with roots in Jamaican Ska, characterized by high-pitched snares and electric instruments like synthesizers.

Traditional Oriental

Musical traditions from India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia, with Indian Classical Music being the oldest surviving musical genre.

Dynamics

A musical element referring to the volume of a piece, which can be loud, soft, or change gradually.

Harmony

The sound created when two or more pitches are performed at the same time to form a chord.

Melody

A series of pitches that make a tune; it acts as the binding agent that holds all other elements of music together.

Timbre

Also known as tone color, it refers to the unique sound quality that allows a listener to distinguish one instrument from another.

Tonality

The overall sound of music, characterized as pleasant (consonant), unpleasant (dissonant), or being in a major or minor key.

Musical Criticism

The task of evaluating music, which can be approached via a scientific school that applies specific critical yardsticks or standards.