MAPEH - ARTS

• Basic Elements of Musical Play/Theater

  • Scenery (Set)
  • Costumes
  • Props (properties)
• Scenery (Set)


  Theatrical equipment (curtains, flats, backdrops or platforms) used in a dramatic production to communicate to environment
• Costumes


  Clothing and accessories worn by actors to portray character and period
• Elements of Artistic Expression

  • Art
  • Music
• Art


  The creation of work and beauty or other significance
• Music


  Creative organization of sound
• Elements of Music


  • Line
  • Movement
  • Texture
  • Sound
  • Silence
  • Rhythm
  • Form
• Line


  The musical staff or stave
• Movement


  A musical piece that can be performed on its own but is a part of larger composition
• Texture


  Refers to the number of layers used in a composition
• Sound


  Any tone with characteristics such as controlled pitch and timbre
• Silence


  The lack of audible sound or presence of sounds of very low intensity
• Rhythm


  The arrangement of sounds as they move through time
• Form


  Refers to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music
• Actor's Tool


  The mind, body and voice
• Theater began from myth, ritual and ceremony.
• Theater


  Place of seeing, but it is more than the buildings where performance take place
• To produce theater

  1. Playwright writes the script

  2. Director rehearses the performers

  3. Designer and technical crew produce props, create the scenes

  4. Actors and actresses perform on stage

  5. Audience witness it
• Greek theater began in Ancient Greece around 700 B.C. with festivals honoring their many gods. Dionysus (Di-on-i-sus), the god of wine and fertility, has a religious festival called "The Cult of Dionysus" to honor him. The three well-known Greek tragedy playwrights are Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus
• The Three Types of Ancient Drama


  • Tragedy
  • Comedy Play
  • Satyr Play
• Tragedy


  A compound of two Greek words, tragos or "goat" and won (ode) meaning "song" referring to goats sacrificed to Dionysus before performances, or to goat skin worn by the performers. Tragedy was the most admired type of play in Greece
• Comedy Play


  Derived from imitation, there were no traces of their origin. Aristophanes wrote most of the comedy plays. Cyclops was an adventurous comedy by Euripides
• Satyr Play


  Contains comic elements to lighten the overall mood or serious play with happy ending. The Satyr play was a short, light-hearted tail piece performed after each trilogy of the tragedies. It is on ancient Greek form of Tragic Comedy
• Ancient Theater Terms

  • Theatron
  • Orchestra
  • Skene
  • Parodos
• Theatron


  A theater building, a large, open-air structure constructed on the slopes of hills
• Orchestra


  A large circular or rectangular area at the center part of the theater, where the play, dance, religious rites, and acting took place
• Skene


  The stage
• Parodos


  The side entrance
• Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville- the author Gorboduc (Ferrex and Porrex), was performed at the Christmas celebration in 1561, and was performed before Queen Elizabeth I on January 18, 1562 by the Gentlemen of the inner Temple