Contemporary

Philippine Arts

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Regions
Contemporary Art
Form:
Elements and
Principle
 LITERATURE
This is a body of workshop that show
the best that has been thought

and said or works that signify the

achievements of a particular culture.
Types and elements of
literature:
Prose and Poetry
Poetry
refers to expressing of
feeling or idea with the
use of figurative or
symbolic language.
Meaning
This consists of descriptions and details that can
trigger
Figurative language
the readers’ senses.
A writer may use of simile, metaphor, and
other figures of speech in expressing something in a different way
aside from its literal meaning.
Imagery
A writer can use idioms, new words, allusion, and
connotations in expressing his feelings or ideas.
Sound and Rhythm
Sound is the emphasis on certain words
while
rhythm is the position of beats or the sound
pattern of the work.
Prose
is a literature that is not poetry with
two categories: informative and
persuasive, just like an essay.
• Theme or content
This is the general thought or idea of
the
• Style composition.
This refers to the choices of words and sentence
structures
used to convey the message.
• Form and structure
This is the sequence of topic and transitions
that make the whole essay.
• Plot or story line
This is the sequence of events in the story
that
gives the flow of the narrative
• Characters
This can be a person, an animal or even thing
who
• Setting takes part in the story.
This is the time and place where the story
happened
• Theme
This is the central thought of the story
 • Language and style
Style is the choices of words which includes
the sentence structures and figurative language that affect the
mood of the story.
• Point of view
The narrator may present the author himself for the
third-person point of view. The narrator can also be
one of the
characters in the story for the first-person point of
view.
Traditions and Forms of
Philippine Poetry:
 Ethnic Tradition
• Epic- This relates adventures of a super hero with
powers and serves as a code of values of a particular
• Folk song ethnic group.
A song that is transmitted orally from one generation
to another and known as awiting bayan in Tagalog.
 • Proverbs
A concise statements that teach morality and tradition
and usually expressed as rhyming pair of lines that depict two
different elements.
• Riddles
This describes an object in a different manner or in a
way
that is not easily understood and may be a question for
someone to
discover the meaning.
 • Short poems
This usually has four lines, with 5-12 syllables
per
• Poetic jousts line.
This may involve marriage negotiations
between two
families in which every region has their
own version.
Spanish Colonial Tradition
 • Metrical romance
This focuses on chivalric, folkloric, legendary,
and religious themes
• Pasyon
This is written in a stanza with 5 lines
with 8 syllables per
line which recounts the life of Jesus
Christ. This is useful as a
source of images, stories of Jesus Christ.
Forms of Contemporary
Prose In The Philippines
 • Folk narrative
Any story based on real or fictional events
in the
past told among the people in a community.
• Myth This is a story that explains the origin of the
world and its first inhabitants

• Legend
Heroic and historical legend tackles episodes in the lives
of great men and women. Religious legend narrates display of
miracles of God and of the saints. Supernatural legend focuses on
the existence of beings from the underworld. Toponymical legend
explains why a certain place has this name.
 • Folktales
These are classified into animal tales or fables,
magic
tales, humorous tales, novelistic tales, religious
• Essay and didactic tales.
This explains the insights or information using descriptio
narration, and humor.
• Novel
This defined as the lengthy and complex narrative of
events based on the author’s imagination.
• Short story
This is a concise secular narrative with romantic,
realistic and radical tradition.

• Komiks
This is a special form of contemporary literature
which
involves drawing frames showing a set of
characters with their
actions and usually contains a balloons enclosed
with words or dialogue.
 MUSIC
It is an arrangement of
sounds to create a continuous
and unified
compositions.
 Elements of Music:
• Melody This is succession of consecutive notes or tones
changing
in pitch and duration.
• Rhythm
It has three qualities: tempo which describes how
fast or
slow is the music; meter which refers to the unit of
time that is made
up of beats or pulses; and rhythmic pattern
• Harmony
This is a combination of different tones or pitches
played

• Texturesung together at the same time

This is the relationship of melodic and harmonic
lines in
• Dynamics music.
This is the degree of softness and loudness of
music.
 • Timbre
Also known as tone color which is the
quality of sound
generated by the instrument or voice.

• Form
This refers to how the elements of music
are organized
Forms and Types Of
Philippine Music:
 Ethnic traditional music
• Ballad A song that explains an event occurring in a
community
• Chant A song with an unaccompanied
melody and variable rhythm
• Song debate
A song involving male and female
singers
who try to outsmart each other about a
 European-influenced Religious and Secular
music
• Art song
A composition characterized by merging the
voice part, lyrics, and the accompaniment together to
achieve an artistic musical whole.
• Habanera/Danza
This is a social dance in duple time.
 • Liturgical music
This is a vocal and instrumental
compositions that go together with the official rites
of Christian churches.
• Kumintang
This is a dance of love accompanied by a
guitar and a string bass and documented as a war
song
• Pasyon chant
Refers to the various styles used
throughout the country for the singing of the pasyon.
 American-inspired music
• Classical music
This music includes classical music
from the western world; and classical and modern music
composed by Filipinos.
• Semi-classical music
These includes band and
rondalla music, hymns and marches, sarswela
music,
and stylized folk songs.
• Popular music
This includes original music
composed by Filipinos which
utilizes Western and
local musical influences.
 DANCE
It is an art of involving a series a rhythmic
human
movements that are purposely selected and
involves a mindful
effort to combine movements together.
 Elements of Dance:
• Body element
This is how the body of the dancer
moves, what part of the body moves,
what actions are
performed, and how the body support
itself.
 • Space
This focuses on the area where the dance is
performed
• Time
This is the accent, beat, duration, meter, rhythm, and
• Energy acceleration
. This is referred to as dynamics. This element
describes how energy is directed through the
body, and
how the body releases it.
 • Relationship
This is how the person relates to
the
stage and to production elements.
Forms and types of
dances in the
Philippines:
 • Folk dance
This is a dance that are developed and
performed together by ordinary
people. This includes
ceremonial, combative, courtship,
exorcism, funeral,
game, torture, comic, and religious
dances.
 • Ballet
This is a theatrical dance presentation in which a
plot is integrated with dancing, music, and stage
Modern dance design.
A dance form that emerged during the
20th century and still considered theatrical but it
veers
away from the technique and style of ballet
 • Other forms of dance
Aerobic dance
Dancing to the tune of popular
music with the purpose of increasing
consumption
of oxygen over a period of time.
 Bodabil dancing
This is used to be popular
during the American period.
Jazz dance
This uses African dance
techniques like isolation of individual human
body parts, rhythm, and polycentrism.
 Polynesian and Tahitian dance
These dances
began from the people living in the Polynesian
Tap dance chain.

A dance which entails tapping

with toes and heels to generate rhythmic
patterns.
 THEATER
It is an art form that involves performing carefully
planned
actions and emotions in front of an audience. Philippine
theater
is described as a wide range of mimetic performances
that were
created and presented during occasions.
 Elements of theater:
• Performers
These are the persons who are on stage
and portray their characters for the audience.
• Audience
They serves as the witness of the performance
and energy given by the performers.
 • Director
Serves as an overseer to the entire production and
ensures that the performers do their job well and the design
works well.
• Performance space
This refer to the space in which the
actors can perform and space for the audience
to stand.
 • Design
This is essential in placing the overall feel of the
production which includes lighting, set, costumes, and
sound
• Text
This is the script to be presented in a
play or
production
 Form and types of
Philippine theater:
• Dulang Pahiyang

Theater is not viewed as a

separate
activity, but as part of life.
 • Dulambayan
Also known as people’s theater and considered
“theater in the context of social movements”

• Teatrong Pansimbahan
This is concerned with
spirituality and usually performed depending on the
events in the church calendar.
 FILM
This refers to a sequence of moving pictures
shown on television or in cinema.
Film making became an industry in the
Philippines during the 1950’s.
 Elements of Film:
• Time
This is considered as the most significant element of
• Techniques of cinema. cinema
Cutting or editing
Involves one shot with
another, making sure that these two shot
are
 Camera movement
This is done in order to have
a smoother change of view
Framing

This helps bringing balance to the film as it is

being
viewed.
 Forms and types of Film:
• Aksyon (Action)
This uses conflict as emphasis based on
real-life stories or actual experiences of
persons and based
from the tradition of metrical romance or
literary komedya.
 • Animation
A film that involves creating illustrations or
inanimate images and bringing them to life.
• Bomba
A film that depicts nudity and sex but is
different from X-rated pornography.
 • Dokyu (documentary)
This is a motion picture that
narrates news events or explain other subject matter based
on facts.
• Drama
This is a motion picture that dwells on personal
roblems and conflicts which draws sentiment and emotion
 Experimental
This attempts to create something innovative or that
is never done before with the camera
• Fantasy
This depicts scenes in an imaginary world
• Historical
This shows actual events that occurred in the past
 • Horror
This is shown to bring fear to the
audience.
• Komedi (Comedy
This is to introduce or bring laughter to
the audience.
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