PE MIDTERMS

• Rhythm: the regular recurrence of accented and unaccented beats
• Rhythms: denotes an aspect of a quality of movement that is sometimes thought of as dance
• Rhythms: is when an individual moves in response to a particular rhythm or music (we call the movements as rhythmic movements or rhythms)
• Rhythms: structured forms which start creative rhythmic movements
• Rhythmic Activities: are the physical manifestations of the mental and emotional response of the individual to rhythm
• Rhythmic activities: they are activities which a child responds to: physically, socially, mentally (to regular patterns of sound)
• Rhythmic Activities: are sources of enjoyment for people of all ages through these activities: (1) skills and the sense of rhythm are acquired and developed, (2) feelings are expressed, (3) basic principles of time, space, and force can be experienced
• Everyone reacts to music or rhythm in one form or another (physical reactions):

  1. head swaying
  2. foot tapping
  3. fingers snapping
  4. shoulders and body moving while a musical piece is played
• Dance refers to movement set to music where there emerges:

  1. organization
  2. structure
  3. pattern
• Dance is a composition that implies the arrangement of parts into a form
• Dancing: a means of expressing one's emotions through movement disciplined by rhythm
• Dancing: an act of moving rhythmically and expressively to an accompaniment
• Dancing: the word came from an old German word "danson" which means to"stretch"
• Dancing: all dancing is made up of stretching and relaxing
• Beat: the underlying pulse of a rhythm
• Tempo: rate of speed of a movement
• Intensity: variation of the stress of movement
• Pitch: lowness or highness of a tone
• Accent: emphasis on certain beats
• Meter: the regular recurrence of beats which divides a musical design into measure
• Phrase: measures grouped together, aka “loop”
• Bar: a vertical line across a staff dividing it into equal measures of time
• Count: a pulse beat, a time limit
• Note: a printed symbol of a musical tone
• Measure: a group of pulse beats
• Note pattern: refers to a note or set of notes with or without rest used for a certain dance step
• Step pattern: refers to the movement or movements done for each of the dance steps
• Body: what others see when they look at dance
• Action: any human movements involved in the act ofdancing
• Non-locomotor movement: aka axial movement; any movement that occurs in one spot
• Locomotor movement: any movement that travels through space
• Action: Non-locomotor movement and locomotor movements
• Time: how the body moves in relation to time
• Energy: how dancers move through space and time withenergy
• Space: where the action of dance takes place
• Place: General space and personal space
• Personal space: aka spot; specific space for a person to dance
• General space: downstage, upstage, a designated location where a person can dance
• Relationship: how the dancers are positioned in space in relationship to one another
• Creative Rhythms: sometimes called fundamental rhythms or natural dances