MTTC: Visual and Performing Arts Section

Define sculpture

3D art

List the National Music Education Standards as outlines for music educators instructing children in grades K-4 as they read and notate music.

Ability of each child to read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes Determine pitch; identify traditional terms and symbols Ability of each child to incorporate the use of standard symbols to indicate meter, pitch, rhythm, and dynamics in easy phrases as presented by the music educator

What is painting?

Pigment is suspended in medium or binder and applied to a support.

Define Theatre

Plays-comedy, modern, or tragedy-typically in five acts.

What can music educators do to help parents encourage their children's music education at home?

Take them to music outings such as concerts, performances, and theaters.

Discuss the history of singing and explain its use as a musical instrument.

The voice can be used as a musical instrument through singing or humming. In history, singing has been done by preist, healers, actors, poets, and for entertainment. Music was extermely popular in the Middle Ages and romantic period.

What is a still life?

a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware.

Define drama

a story told through characters played by actors

Define relief in art

An object appears to project out from the flat surface suggesting 3D

Define Carving

Cut to create a form

What is etching?

Cutting into a metal or glass surface and then bathing it in acid

What is dry point?

Engraving technique that creates soft velvety lines

Explain how music educators should instruct students to read rhythm.

Explaining time signature and identifying what note gets the beat

Art and architecture can be found throughout the world, describe some different places one might visit to appreciate art in their local area

Home construction, churches, shopping centers, banks, government buildings

Explain how music educators should instruct students to read measures.

Have them count the measures separated by bar lines.

Describe the use of protective apparel while working in the studio.

Help prevent contact of chemicals with the skin

Explain why music should be included in the curriculum

Helps with expression, teaches about different cultures, backgrounds, and voices, and can help improve other studies

Give examples of imagery that could be used to improve technique and identify their desired effects

Improve balance, prolong lift in a leap, achieve deeper abdominal contractions, sharpen angular movement in shapes, soften tension, import de bras, accelerate attack in an assemblé, and the better employ plié in preparation for jumps

Why should we increase the focus of music and the arts?

It can motivate students to learn more in other areas.

What is lithography?

the process of printing from a flat surface treated so as to repel the ink except where it is required for printing.

Define music

organized sound

How to recognize rhythm of a familiar song?

Have them clap the beats.

Describe the drawing principles of shape, form & proportion.

*Shape* - aspect o form, individual masses grouping or aesthetics. Form combined with content constitutes basis of the art work itself. *Proportion* *symmetrical three-diminsionality or solidity of work. *Golden Mean* often employed. *Golden Mean* - 1509 Leonardo da Vinci "*Divine Proportion*"

literature

- written work such as fiction, poetry, or drama

Discuss creative movement

A child's interpretation of the song without paying attention to the beat. being more free

Define a comedy play.

A funny or satirical play

Explain how ones capacity for aesthetic awareness can affect their appreciation of visual arts

Anyone can appreciate art but true appreciation requires understanding of creative process and thoughts and feelings of the artist.

What is engraving?

Art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints

Define and discuss rhythm

As the pattern of movement in a particular time, rhythm has referred to both the flow of a piece and the ability of the piece to maintain or uphold the pulse. Rhythm is a pattern of stresses and repeats

Compare and contrast baroque and classical music

Baroque gave us motets and opera Classical gave us string quartets, sonata, and symphony The integrity and depth of composition are in both

Define the basic principles of art

Balance and harmony are a state of equilibrium Proportion is a state of symmetry Unity is a stare of being in accord Variety is diversity in a collection

What is wood cutting

Carve a design into wood and use ink or paint to stamp it onto other objects

What are some design elements a viewer might look for and recognize in a formalistic dance piece

Choreographer, space, time, and dynamics

Define creative and synchronized movement

Creative movement is letting the kids be free in their movements. Synchronized movement follows a routine

Define and discuss dynamics in music

Dynamics is the degree of loudness or softness of a musical piece.

Describe the main physical characteristics and movement philosophy of classical ballet.

En Pointe, drawing strength from hips, major movements are in upright positions, jumping, leaping

List the basic elements of sculpture design & provide a brief description of each.

Mass, Space, Plane, Line, Movement, Scale, Texture, Color.

Describe the use of pen and ink as an art form and give a brief overview of their historical use

Medical monks used ink and quills to write on prepared animals skins. Used in renaissance and post renaissance Era by famous artist from the time such as Picasso and is now the least demanded form

Define symphony

Orchestral composition, usually in 4 movements

Why is a polyptych

Multiple scenes hinged together

Describe the benefits of music education

Music education allows students to see the application of math in different subjects, allows for self-expression while developing a personal creativeness, and discover the fundamentals of self-image and self-discipline through music practice.

Discuss the music educator's role

Music educators should be able to guide children in their musical experiences and encourage their progress as it occurs.

Define pastels and describe their origin

Pastels are chemically pure pigments gently bound by gum or resin and are much softer than their harder chalk crayon cousins. French artists in the 18th century

Discuss the importance of an audience members experience and perspective in the viewing and interpreting of a dance

Pat experiences, social political orientation, aesthetic preferences, and a certain degree or lack of knowledge about dance in general

Define perspective and explain its principles

Perspective, aerial & linear, Aerial, Linear, Station point, Point of sight, eye level, horizon line, ground line, center of vision, vanishing point.

Describe the rise and fall of music over the past 100 years.

Ragtime, blues, jazz, Classical, Rock, and modern popular trends

Discuss style of music and list the chronological classifications of music

Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century

Describe the best way to teach songs to young children

Repetition

List materials that should be avoided when children are participating in an art project and some common rules that can help prevent accidents

Solvents, thinners, shellac's, acids, alkalis, bleaches, rubber cement, permanent markers, paints, fixatives, adhesive and airbrush paints, pottery glazes, copper enamels, stained glass, pastels, oil paint. Have adult supervision at all times and teach proper use of materials

Describe and discuss some goals of music education

Students will learn about self-discipline and also develop social skills and teamwork. While also improving self esteem and self expression

What is a collage

The combination of cut-and-pasted paper, photographs, and other materials on a two-dimensional surface.

Define intervals in music

The measurements from pitch to pitch

Explain why the right attitude of the music educator is paramount to student success.

The teacher's attitude will set the tone for the class, for example, if the teacher is excited the students will be excited as well.

What is the tempo of music?

The speed

What is acoustics?

The study of sound and how it vibrates in certain structures

Discuss the changes technology has made in music.

There have been more inventions to allow for the mass sharing of music.

Describe some ways that dramatic or comedic piece provoke feelings or reactions

They portray their emotions through facial expressions, gestures, and energy in their movements

Suggest several methods for understanding the cultural context of a choreographers body of work or a particular dance

Time, place, and cultural climate

What is stenciling

Use a cut out to create your drawing

What is modeling in art

When a sculpture uses clay or wax to create a form

Explain why singing and chanting with young children is important

When music educators participate in the singing or chanting, they can interact with children, and show them how much fun moving to music and creating music can be for all ages.

What is frieze?

a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.

What is casting?

pouring hot metal liquids into molds