Performing Arts revision

Act 2 Scene 1 Set in Macbeth's courtyard late at night. Banquo and his son, Fleance, arewalking to their bedrooms. Banquo has a feeling of anxiety towards going tosleep because he fears that he......

Act 4 Scene 1 The witches are dancing and chanting around a cauldron, making a spell. Macbethenters thier cave, demanding that his questions be answered. The witches thendecide to give him what......

Scene 1 Set in medieval Scotland. The play opens in an isolated place where threewitches are holding a conversation. They speak of a civil war that is beingfought in Scotland, and to the witches,......

Technical codes1) Shot size 2) Long shot 3) Mid shot 4) Close u 5) Extreme close up LightingLow Key - Dramatic, moody High Key - Bright and exciting Low contrast - Not many different colours,......

Act 5 Scene 1 The Macbeths have moved to Dunsinane Castle, likely because it is on a hill,where they are able to see further into the distance. As Lady Macbeth is goingquite mad, a doctor has......

Hermia and Helena'srelationship has changed greatly after the intervention of Puck with the lovepotion. Once best friends, they have become each others enemies, and all forthe love of Lysander......

The satisfaction one gains from the two characters is based on a number of factors,including the traditional definitions of a tragic hero, as set down byAristotle, and the sympathy one feels......

Stars Stars are born from enormous clouds of gas and dust. The attractive force of gravity between the particles causes the cloud to collapse. Gravitational energy is converted to heat energy and......

Act 3 Scene 1 Macbeth is now living at the royal residence, at Forres. Banquo begins tosuspect Macbeth in the murder of Duncan, but considers staying quiet because hestill hopes that his......

Themes -The fundamental + often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Love's Difficulty ("The course of true love neverdid run smooth") Imbalance+ lack of symmetry at the opening of the play......

I will give you some general features of arias and recatatives, because once you know them you can spot them easily from anything. And remember (baroque) opera is a part of the general syllabus too......

Holding back a note in its movement from one chord to another, so it produces a momentary dissonance. There are 3 stages: It is prepared - 1st chord - a concord. The suspended note is heard......

Black Americans Slavery/abolition Blues Guitar, voice, harmonica - acoustic Improvised Call and response Melody uses minor pentatonic scale Blue notes - flattened 3rd, 5th and 7th Personal Gospel......

Random - Every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected. Systematic - Every member of the sample is chosen at regular intervals from a list Stratified - Population split in......

Weelkes, Sing We At Pleasure Background information and original performance circumstances - This piece is a Madrigal. - Madrigals were massively popular amongst the "educated classes" of......

In music technology, an effect (FX) is a term used to define the alteration, enhancement or modification of a particular sound. Chorus Chorus is an effect that modifies the sound of a......

David Carson - Text [works as a designer for advertisements in magazines] Paula Rego - tone, figure work [feminism] Phillippe Cognee - encaustique technique [domestic housing + objects and scenes......

Close Miking In close miking, a microphone is placed relatively close to an instrument or sound source. This serves to reduce extraneous noise, including room reverberation, and is commonly used......

MIDI (short for M usical I nstrument D igital I nterface) is a music industry standard communications protocol that lets MIDI instruments and sequencers (or computers running sequencer software)......

Prelude a L' Apres-midi d'un faune (Debussy) The faun in Debussy's 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun' is an ancient pagan nature-god, guardian of herds and patron of country pursuits.......