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Performing Arts
The performing arts are forms of creative expression, in which the undertakers use their body or presence as the medium.
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The terms "statement", "repetition", "contrast" and "variation" are usually applied to melody but the principals apply equally to rhythmic structure, timbre, voicing etc.
Statement: The first appearance of a melody in its complete form is the statement. Every piece of melodic music has a statement, by definition. A melody can be prefigured or hinted at before its first full statement.
Repetition: Human perception relies to a very large extent on pattern recognition. When we see or hear something several times we feel comfortable and familiar and we start to make deductions or inferences. If you make a very short recording of some random banging on a drum it just sounds random but if you loop the recording a rhythm emerges. What is the difference? Only that we recognise the pattern and pattern is inherently important to us.
Contrast: We need pattern recognition to find food, recognise family members, run from predators etc but there is so much in the world that can be read as pattern we would be overwhelmed unless we also learned to discriminate and dismiss unimportant or trivial patterns. The looped recording of the random drum beats will hold our interest for only a few seconds. The more different the new thing that takes our attention, the more we notice the qualities of both. Another aspect of pattern recognition is that we most notice differences. If you're pointing out a friend in a group of four people, three of whom are black, three are medium height and and three are medium weight, you'll say "he's the white guy" or "the short guy" or "the fat guy". Hence two different melodies in the same key and rhythmic structure and we'll notice the tune while probably paying much less attention to the other qualities. In this way a composer can draw attention to specific aspects of the music.
Variation: Having established a pattern by repeititon, small changes to it noticed and perceived as part of a whole with the pattern. They are perceived as growth or development. A mother recognises her baby from day to day as it grows and she most notices the changes, the new things it can do, the first tooth and so on. Again this kind of recognition is hard wired into us. Having spotted a pattern of growth, we start to make predictions about the direction of change - we get a sense of where it is going. The composer can play with this perception by making us feel comfortable or by violating our expectations for amusement, surprise or shock.
The necessity of repeition and variation and contrast leads to philosophical/aesthetic differences. "Excessive" repetition such as is found in clubbing music is often dismissed as immature and yet it is obvious that clubbers derive much pleasure from it. Luis-Manuel Garcia has pointedout (in http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.05.11.4/mto.05.11.4.garcia.HTML) that Schoenberg saw both sides of the argument at different times. He said his ideal listener was a 'wakeful and trained' mind; one that has no wish to be insulted by having the same musical idea presented to him repeatedly but in Die Grundlagen der musikalischen Komposition he points out that "comprehensibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition".
Since writing the above, a friend has commented: "Statement in music has always been more represented by the delivery, a person, a face, a lyrical phrase, that kind of thing. Statement could be a broader term for what the music actually represents as a whole." However, dolmetsch.com agrees with me, giving "statement" as a synonym for "exposition" and defining it thus: "the part of a work, in sonata form, where the principal themes are first stated, or in a fugue, where the voices first enter".
Is Pein related to Konan and what is Peins past?
Pein and Konan aren't family (blood) related. But when they were kids, Konana, Yahiko, and Nagato (which is now Pein, but looks like Yahiko) were all orphans from the wars. And they meet Jiraya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru when they were younger, and Jiraya stayed behind to watch them, and teach them. Jiraya eventually left, thinking mabe Nagato was 'the choosen one' (but its actually Naruto), but found out later that the 3 of them died, which isnt/wasnt true, because only Yahiko died. Nagato took Yahiko's body, just like all of the other 6 were dead already when he took them, and called bimself 'Pein'.
A supervisor can spend time training you to do a job and showing you the tricks of the trade. A supervisor can review your errors with you to improve accuracy. A supervisor can sign you up for classes or training programs. A supervisor can assign special duties to you outside your normal duties.
That song is called I Hope You Dance (It was played at my elementary school graduation! I remember that because I'm only twelve!) I'm not sure who sings it but look it up on Youtube Limewire or itunes and you'll find it.
Where can you buy a tightrope from?
depends on the kind. you can get some from Colorado if that helps.
The peasants of Bavaria, Tyrol, and Styria began dancing a dance called Walzer, a dance for couples, around 1750. The Ländler, also known as the Schleifer, a country dance in 3/4 time, was popular in Bohemia, Austria, and Bavaria, and spread from the countryside to the suburbs of the city.
What are you supossed to do in reverse in the cha cha slide dance?
Each time it says reverse, you face the opposite direction so you turn around backward. When it says it two times, you should end up facing forward.
It was on the first half of the 18th century..
It was the Italians who started recitation..
For almost 200 years the manuscript, prints, copies, and performances of Italian secco recitative have been based in Italian conventions of the latter half of the century.
DJ Chris Colby is a Premier Dance Music DJ from the Philadelphia area. He has a website (see related links) and a continuing CD series titled DJ Chris Colby Dance Evolution - He plays today's dance music remixed to NYC style beats.
Salakot dance, the dancers portray the use of the head gear in a graceful, almost flirtatious move.
What are the dance steps in halay dance?
To start:
step forward right foot (R),
step forward left foot (L),
step forward R,
lift L low to front,
step back on L,
step back on R,
step back on L,
lift R low in front,
step R to right, step/sway L behind R,
step R to right, step/sway L behind R(torso sways forward and back twice during sequence),
step forward slightly on R, flex knees twice/ bounce twice,
step slightly back on L, flex/bounce knees twice,
Repeat sequence.
Have a great time, practicing the dance....
