ART APPRECIATION MIDTERMS

Performing Arts

Range vocal and instrumental music, dance, and theatre to pantomime, sung verse, and beyond.

Performing Arts

Cultural expressions that reflects human creativity.

Performing Arts

Found in cultural heritage domain.

Drama, Music, Dance

Performance Art Forms

Performance Art Forms

Drama, Music, Dance

Drama

Pantomime, Comedy, Tragedy, Musicals, Film/Television

Music

Instrumental, Opera, Classical, Jazz, Pop music

Dance

Rituals, Folk, Ballet, Contemporary

Elements of a Performance

Time, Space, Performer’s Body, Audience

Time, Space, Performer’s Body, Audience

Elements of a Performance

Time

Ephemeral, fleeting, temporary; be in a specific place at the right time to see a performance.

Space

Be in a specific place to see a performance.

Audience

Since art is a social practice, it communicates.

Vanessa Beecroft (2008)

“A performance needs an audience to exist. The audience becomes the essential element; without it, the performance wouldn't make any progress.”

Performing Arts

Performing Arts or Performance Arts?

Using the body as a tool to create a story. Just like theater, using the body and voice.

Performance Arts

Performing Arts or Performance Arts?

Uses the body and the artist as the object of an artwork.

Rituals, Babaylan/Katalonan

Origin of Performing Arts

Rituals

A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.

Babaylan/Katalonan

Has the ability to mediate with the spirit world, gifts of healing, foretelling, and insight.

Conservatory of Music 1907

Founded in the same year when CEU was established in 1907.

Ladislao Bonus

• Father of Philippine Opera

• Established the very first opera company in the Philippines in Pandacan, Manila (1887).

Francisco Buencamino

• Grandfather of Filipino Music

• Composed several Tagalog operettas or zarzuelas.

• Taught at CEU and headed its Music department for 30 years.

Felipe Padilla de Leon

• Major Philippine composer, conductor, and scholar.

• Translated the Philippine National Anthem from Spanish to Tagalog.

• Payapang Daigdig

Lucio San Pedro

• Composed various hymns and became the local church organist.

• Ugoy ng Duyan

Antonio J. Molina

• Completed the “Triumvirate of Filipino Composers” together with Nicanor Abelardo and Francisco Santiago.

Jovita Fuentes

• One of the greatest Filipino vocal talents as a Soprano.

• The first Filipino International Star in the world of opera.

Francisca Reyes-Aquino

• Folk Dance Pioneer

• Began her research in the 1920s, making trips to remote barrios in Central and Northern Luzon.

• Served as supervisor of Physical Education at the Bureau of Education.

Veladas

Evening in Spanish; Evening formal party with music, dance, and other performances.

Tradisyong Asiakito

• Tribu sa bundok Cordillera at Hilagang Luzon.

• Matataas na Pamamayanan ng Palawan at Mindoro; Mindanao.

• Islamikong kultura ng Minadano at Sulu

• Tribong Agta sa Luzon

Tradisyong Kanluranin

• Bicol, Boholano, Ibanag, etc.

• Musikang Urban

• Musikang Semi-Klasiko

• Oral Tradition

Musikang Inaawit

Binubuo ng mga sinaunang epiko, panalangin sa ritwal, awit sa seremonya, at himig panrelihiyon.

Musikang Liturhiko

Liturgy Music, Liturgy of the Eucharist, originally performed as Latin.

Fr. Eduardo Hontiveros, SJ

Father of Liturgical Music

Musikang Para Liturhika

Paraliturgical Music, performed outside the liturgy like Pasyon or Christmas Carols.

Awit ng Pag-ibig

Love songs, Kundiman, Harana

Awiting Bayan

Talks about the simple lifestyle of the community and how it was before; simple melody that one can follow.

Sarsuela

Originated in Spain but has been adapted in the Philippines as musical theater that combines singing and spoken scenes.

Operang Filipino

Music Performed dramatically in a theatrical setting.

Fides Ayugan-Ascencio, Jovita Fuentes

Operang Filipino

Musikang Pangkoro

Chorale Music; was introduced because of liturgical music.

Andrea O. Veneration

Musikang Pangkoro

Musikang Klasiko

Classical Music, Avant-garde Music; works used by cassettes, imitating an orchestra not using instruments, but just rhythms and structures.

Jose Maceda

Musikang Klasiko

Musikang Sikat sa Pilipinas

Popular Music, Pinoy Pop, OPM; Mainstream of Philippine Society.

Ryan Cayabyab

Musikang Sikat sa Pilipinas

Moro-moro, Singkil, Senakulo, Bodabil

Philippine Theatrical Tradition

Moro-moro

From a colonial perspective, it is a musical of bad music that speaks of Christians vs. Muslims.

Singkil

Known as a folk dance but has a story.

Senakulo

Retelling of the life of Jesus Christ such as the Passion, Death, and Resurrection.

Bodabil

Vaudeville; Foreign concept of entertainment act bringing people together through magic skit, raffles, production, etc.

Drama

Written to be presented on stage by actors for the entertainment of an audience and to attract mass responses.

Drama

Labeled or categorized as literature because it starts with a script, which then will be interpreted by an actor.

Drama

First mode of mass media communication.

Drama

Primal means of ordering human experience, interpreting life, and giving meaning to it.

Emotional, Interest, Satisfy

What makes drama distinct?

Renders human action

Represent directly their character.

Story

It is organized as a narrative.

Actions

Make the characters relatable.

Art of Intensification

Able to talk about mundane things in life, but only one aspect of your experience.

Unity of Action

A play cannot be an entity because it falls apart.

Unity of Action

Ordering and arranging the plot that the beginning initiates and sets in motion forces.

Human Affairs

Introduce your character well.

Tension, Turmoil, Strife

Resolution

Conclusion

The end of the play is the consequences of the beginning.

Forms in Drama

Ordering or organizing of their specific vision of nature or life as the artist sees it at the time.

Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy Melodrama

Forms in Drama

Tragedy

Fear and pity

Comedy

Laughter and ridicule

Tragicomedy Melodrama

Fear and hate

Style in Drama

Rendering

Rendering

Product of age, the author’s view of life, and the way he chooses the story.

Act, Scenes

Parts of a Play (QUANTITY)

Act

Way to divide an opera, play, or other drama. Each is a group of scenes.

Act 1

The Set-up

Act 2

The Confrontation

Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Music, Spectacle

Parts of a Play (QUALITY)

Plot

Overall organizing principle of drama; arrangement of the incidents of a story.

Character

Differentiation of one agent to another.

Thought

What the character say and do.

Diction

The script; dialogue of the play, combination of words to speeches.

Libretto

Also known as Script.

Music

The means through which diction serves thought.

Spectacle

Total visual presentation; Costume, editing, props, etc.

History

The study and interpretation of past events such as human experiences and societies.

History

Collection of historical evidences to construct narratives about the past.

Art History

Study of aesthetic objects and visual expressions in historical and stylistic contest.

Art History

Not equal to art appreciation, but history of the arts to create richer understanding of an artwork which can lead to appreciation.

Art History

Different traditions and art movements, not all about aesthetic, but also shows ideology and beliefs.

Art History

Gives meaning to different symbols.

Art History

Helps interpret and understand past generations and their culture.

Ancient Art

Advance cultures of ancient societies.

Chinese Art

Paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, etc.

Renaissance

The human form, anatomies and realism.

Baroque

Floral techniques, chiaroscuro

Art Deco

Architecture, modernity

Haute Couture

Ideology and aesthetic, made to order clothes.

What?

Describe and talk about the artwork; what you see.

Who?

Talk about the artist and how it affects the artwork.

When?

The period the artwork was made that affected the artwork.

How?

How the artwork was made.