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talk about use of line in a picture

How to analyze paintings

1) OPERA HISTORY

1) German & Italian

2) to show off voice

3) flamboyant costumes and sets

4) story lines have action and are melodramatic

5) long solo are called aria.

2) TEMPO AND MOOD IN MUSIC

1) as the tempo increases the mood increases

3) COSTUMES, LIGHTING AND MOOD IN A PLAY

1) lighting includes setting, lights sets and actors

4) INSTRUMENTS IN AN ORCHESTRA

Group The Sound Variation

strings vibration of strings length of string, size

violin, viola of instrument

and base

BRASS vibration of lips on tightening and loosens

trumpet mouth piece of lips

trombone

WOODWINDS vibration of reed

flute, clarinet

PERCUSSION

WHERE DO THEY SIT IN AN ORCHESTRA?

PERCUSION - back

BRASS

WOODWINDS

STRINGS - front

JAZZ - slave tradition improvisational, improvise on a theme

BLUES - protesting w/ songs. Origin of tap dance, rhythm from Africa, combined with

clogging of Ireland.

MODERN DANCE & BALLET

1) modern dance is not like a ballet

2) not structure in modern dance

3) Ballet is very structured

STAGE & LIGHTING

Thrust Stage - allows more intimacy

stage goes into audience

Elizabethan stage - all open - can see what’s going on.

(APROM) ‘sp.’

- the stage in front of the curtain

ROMEO - WESTSIDE STORY

same story, told differently.

need to compare a play to something