HUMANITIES: ART APPRECIATION
(LITERARY ARTS, MUSIC, DANCE DRAMA AND THEATRE) STUDY MATERIAL
LITERARY ARTS
Literary is all written works with intrinsic and artistic value. It is the words and phrases
combined to express sentences that describe emotions, ideas, thoughts, desires and values. It is an art of
using language to colorfully portray beauty. It is the preservation of culture, customs and traditions that
can be passes to future generations. It informs man about his development, blunders, triumphs and the
morals learned in every experience. It is a source of hope, encouragement, and inspiration as it motivates
a person to do better, to improve himself and to attain his ambition in life. It is a form of healing, releases
pain, anger, hatred and frustration.
Literary arts ire made up of theme and structure. The most prominent among the forms of
literature is poetry and it is described as such:
1. It is not poetry when you use “thou” or “thee”
2. When you begin to have words with rhythm or rhyme
3. When begin to use metaphors or simile
4. When you talk about birds, flowers, moon, stars or time.
For poetry is a:
- creation for beauty
- characterized by rhythm and imagery
- it is also the description of the soul’s tranquility
- full of sense and meaning if understood deeply.
Two Significant function of Literary Arts
1. It satisfies the need for joy and pleasure as well as escape
2. It fulfills our yearning, our search for the purpose of living and for the purpose of life
Elements of Literature
1. Emotional charm – is an essential element of literature where the reader is able to empathize
and be emotionally stirred, impressed or affected by the written work of art.
2. Intellectual attraction – provides knowledge and facts about life. It is also imparting philosophic
ideas and interpretations.
3. Humanistic merit – presents the morals which are often forgotten by men. It brings about an
improved person with a brighter and a better outlook in life.
Qualities of a Great Literature
1. Artistry
2. Intellectual value
3. Suggestiveness
4. Spiritual value
5. Permanence
6. Universality
7. Style
, Music
Music - is the art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch to produce melodious
harmony expressive of various ideas and emotion.
- Is a group of sounds that is arranged to produce an effect.
- an expression of different emotions such as:
1. joy
2. grief
3. longing
4. demonstration of praise and worship
5. form of relaxation or leisure
- deals with sound solely for its own sake
- can be organization of sound
Elements of Music
1. Rhythm – is mainly the fundamental of the elements of music and it is the feeling of
movement or thump. It is also the order of movement in music, whether fast or slow, longer
or shorter. It is the structure series of musical tones of given pitches and durations.
2. Melody – single notes arranged to make a distinctive recognizable pattern define melody, the
sequencing of musical sounds or tones in an orderly manner and the structured series of
musical tones of given pitches and durations.
Tone – is a sound music which designates the pitch and depends on the vibration
rate per second
Melody – is associated with mental motion, the memory element because it is what
the listener remembers.
Qualities of a Good Melody
1. Satisfying proportions. Gives the listeners a sense of completeness and
inevitability; a feeling of integrity
2. The melodic line must be long and flowing, with high and low points of interest
and a climatic movement.
3. Must have an expressive quality which arouses an emotional response. This is
the most unpredictable element, for no guiding rules exist.
3. Dynamics – refers to the degree and variation of volumes and force from soft to loud,
with which the music is played.
4. Harmony – refers to the relationship of tones within the chord and the relationship of
chords to another. It is achieved by having two or more melodies sung or played
against each other, called counterpoint or polyphony.
5. Texture – refers to the number of tones one is expected to apprehend
simultaneously. When texture is relatively with thin, air seems to circulate freely
between the tons and what each instruments is doing can clearly be heard.
6. Color – is the result of different timbre or quality of tone in a variety of voices and
instruments
Tone color – or timbre in music as analogous to color in painting
(LITERARY ARTS, MUSIC, DANCE DRAMA AND THEATRE) STUDY MATERIAL
LITERARY ARTS
Literary is all written works with intrinsic and artistic value. It is the words and phrases
combined to express sentences that describe emotions, ideas, thoughts, desires and values. It is an art of
using language to colorfully portray beauty. It is the preservation of culture, customs and traditions that
can be passes to future generations. It informs man about his development, blunders, triumphs and the
morals learned in every experience. It is a source of hope, encouragement, and inspiration as it motivates
a person to do better, to improve himself and to attain his ambition in life. It is a form of healing, releases
pain, anger, hatred and frustration.
Literary arts ire made up of theme and structure. The most prominent among the forms of
literature is poetry and it is described as such:
1. It is not poetry when you use “thou” or “thee”
2. When you begin to have words with rhythm or rhyme
3. When begin to use metaphors or simile
4. When you talk about birds, flowers, moon, stars or time.
For poetry is a:
- creation for beauty
- characterized by rhythm and imagery
- it is also the description of the soul’s tranquility
- full of sense and meaning if understood deeply.
Two Significant function of Literary Arts
1. It satisfies the need for joy and pleasure as well as escape
2. It fulfills our yearning, our search for the purpose of living and for the purpose of life
Elements of Literature
1. Emotional charm – is an essential element of literature where the reader is able to empathize
and be emotionally stirred, impressed or affected by the written work of art.
2. Intellectual attraction – provides knowledge and facts about life. It is also imparting philosophic
ideas and interpretations.
3. Humanistic merit – presents the morals which are often forgotten by men. It brings about an
improved person with a brighter and a better outlook in life.
Qualities of a Great Literature
1. Artistry
2. Intellectual value
3. Suggestiveness
4. Spiritual value
5. Permanence
6. Universality
7. Style
, Music
Music - is the art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch to produce melodious
harmony expressive of various ideas and emotion.
- Is a group of sounds that is arranged to produce an effect.
- an expression of different emotions such as:
1. joy
2. grief
3. longing
4. demonstration of praise and worship
5. form of relaxation or leisure
- deals with sound solely for its own sake
- can be organization of sound
Elements of Music
1. Rhythm – is mainly the fundamental of the elements of music and it is the feeling of
movement or thump. It is also the order of movement in music, whether fast or slow, longer
or shorter. It is the structure series of musical tones of given pitches and durations.
2. Melody – single notes arranged to make a distinctive recognizable pattern define melody, the
sequencing of musical sounds or tones in an orderly manner and the structured series of
musical tones of given pitches and durations.
Tone – is a sound music which designates the pitch and depends on the vibration
rate per second
Melody – is associated with mental motion, the memory element because it is what
the listener remembers.
Qualities of a Good Melody
1. Satisfying proportions. Gives the listeners a sense of completeness and
inevitability; a feeling of integrity
2. The melodic line must be long and flowing, with high and low points of interest
and a climatic movement.
3. Must have an expressive quality which arouses an emotional response. This is
the most unpredictable element, for no guiding rules exist.
3. Dynamics – refers to the degree and variation of volumes and force from soft to loud,
with which the music is played.
4. Harmony – refers to the relationship of tones within the chord and the relationship of
chords to another. It is achieved by having two or more melodies sung or played
against each other, called counterpoint or polyphony.
5. Texture – refers to the number of tones one is expected to apprehend
simultaneously. When texture is relatively with thin, air seems to circulate freely
between the tons and what each instruments is doing can clearly be heard.
6. Color – is the result of different timbre or quality of tone in a variety of voices and
instruments
Tone color – or timbre in music as analogous to color in painting
