Chapter 2 The Organization of the Elements of the Visual Arts and Music

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Chapter 2 The Organization of the Elements of
the Visual Arts and Music

• Understand the nature of the aesthetic experience
• Develop techniques for analyzing the elements of
  art and music

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The Aesthetic Response

• According to Peppers Principles of Art
  Appreciation - 4 ways to produce emotion in art
• Direct stimulation (colorplate 49)
• Types and symbols common usage charged with
  emotion (fig. 13.2, p.309)
• Representation of emotion (colorplate 52)
• Evoke responses by providing evidence of their
  own feelings (Beethoven, colorplate 72)

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Elements Materials of the Visual Arts

• Medium
• Physical materials, such as stone, wood, metal,
  paper, cloth, paint, glass and plastic
• Line
• Line also has expressive significance

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Elements Materials of the Visual Arts

• Space
• Linear perspective/aerial perspective (colorplate
  4, fig.2.1 colorplates 5 6)
• Color
• Hue Saturation
• value

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Elements Materials of the Visual Arts

• Principles of Organization
• Unity
• Variety
• Balance
• Focus
• Form two meanings
• The way the elements are organized
• To designate the shape or mass of an object

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Elements Materials of the Visual Arts

• Expressive Content in Visual Art
• The goal of the artist is to make the character
  real, to evoke a sense of heroism, or to give the
  building the warmth and intimacy of a home

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Elements Materials of the Visual Arts

• Style
• The various ways artists employ the elements and
  principles of organization determine artistic
  styles
• Some artists provide the connecting link between
  style periods

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The Elements and Materials of Music

• Music is the most abstract of the arts
• It moves through time - it requires developing
  the ability to remember what you have heard
• Through repeated hearings to get the full impact
  of its message

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Elements

• Rhythm deals with time and its division
• Long and short sounds/silences (ex. 2.1) p.20
• notation
• Tempo deals with the speed that the beat moves
• various terms used to describe fast/slow tempo
• Meter describes the grouping of the beat
• Measures, bar lines, meter signatures

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Elements (2)

• Pitch
• Describes the high low of sounds
• Frequency of vibration
• Melody
• A linear succession of pitches organized
  rhythmically to express a musical idea
• Moves by intervals of step/skip/same (ex.2.4
  2.5) p.23

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Elements (3)

• Texture
• Monophonic
• Single, unaccompanied melodic line
• Polyphonic
• Two or more independent melodic lines woven to
  make harmony
• Homophonic
• Single melodic line with chordal harmonic
  accompaniment

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Elements (4)

• Harmony
• Created when two or more pitches are sounded
  simultaneously
• Vertical chords or weaving together melodic lines
• Modality/Tonality
• Systems where the organization is based on a
  scale pattern or central tone
• Church modes, major/minor scales
• Consonance/dissonance
• Atonality

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Elements (5)

• Dynamics
• Six levels of relative loudness/softness
• Gradual changes
• Timbre (Tone Color)
• Families of instruments
• Form
• Sectional forms (theme variation or repetition
  and contrast)

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End.chapter 2

• Thus ends the discussion of
• CHAPTER TWO

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