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Contemporary
Philippine Arts
from the Regions
Quarter 1, LAS 3:
Contemporary Art Forms: Elements and
Principles

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 LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET 3

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Learning Area – Grade Level: ________________________________________________

Date: ______________________________________________________________________

I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT
Each visual art form not only exhibits the skills of the artists, but also showcases
the ideas coming from the mind of that artists. Understanding the elements and
principles of contemporary arts is vital in appreciating all of the art forms in the
Philippines. This lesson focuses on the elements and principles of contemporary arts
of performing arts and literature. Hence, Visual arts were tackled in our previous
lessons.

II. LEARNING SKILLS FROM THE MELCs

 Researches on various contemporary art forms (CAR11/12CAP-0c -e-4)

Information Sheet:

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. A writer can use idioms, new words, allusion, and connotations in
expressing his feelings or ideas.
 Figurative language. 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. This consists of descriptions and details that can trigger the readers’
senses.
 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.

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 Theme or content. This is the general thought or idea of the
composition.
Style. 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 takes part
in the story.
Setting. 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 ethnic group.
Folk song. 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 line.
Poetic jousts. 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.

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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 and didactic tales.
 Essay. This explains the insights or information using description,
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
sung together at the same time.
 Texture. This is the relationship of melodic and harmonic lines in
music.
 Dynamics. 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.

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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 certain topic.

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 acceleration.
 Energy. 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 element.

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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 design.
 Modern dance. 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 chain.
 Tap dance. 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

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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

cinema.
 Techniques of cinema.
o Cutting or editing. Involves one shot with another, making sure that
these two shot are connected.
o Camera movement. This is done in order to have a smoother change
of view.
o 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 problems 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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III. ACTIVITIES
Activity I. Direction: Categorize the following literary forms according to the type of
literature. Write each literary form under the appropriate column.

Fable Proverb
Legend Riddle
Myth Short story
Novel Epic
Pasyon Essay

PROSE POETRY

Activity II.
Present a form of spoken poetry which you think you can possibly do by
yourself based on the elements and principles learned in this lesson. Take a video
of your presentation and submit it to email or FB messenger.

IV. EVALUATION
Direction: Read the statements carefully. Identify what is being described in the
statement. Write your answers on the space provided.

___1. This refers to expressing of feeling or idea with the use of figurative or
symbolic language.
a. Poetry c. Dance b.
Literature d. Theater
___2. It is a literature that is not poetry with two categories: informative and
persuasive, just like an essay.
a. Visual arts c. Theater
b. Prose d. Music
___3. It is an arrangement of sounds to create a continuous and unified
compositions.
a. Folk song c. Music
b. Folk dance d. Literature
___4. A writer may use of simile, metaphor, and other figures of speech in
expressing something in a different way aside from its literal meaning.
a. Music c. Dance

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 b. Jazz dance d. Figurative language
___5. This is succession of consecutive notes or tones changing in pitch and
duration.
a. Relationship c. Theater
b. Tap dance d. Melody
___6. Serves as an overseer to the entire production and ensures that the
performers do their job well and the design works well.
a. Body element c. Director b.
Time d. Folk song
___7. These are the persons who are on stage and portray their characters for the
audience.
a. Space c. Design
b. Performer d. Documentation
___8. This is a story that explains the origin of the world and its first inhabitants.
a. Myth c. Literature
b. Riddles d. Cutting or editing
___9. A film that involves creating illustrations or inanimate images and bringing
them to life.
a. Animation c. Film b.
Lighting d. Action
___10.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.
a. Riddles c. Drama
b. Folk tales d. Bomba

V. RUBRIC FOR SCORING (if necessary)

Activity II:
RUBRICS:

CRITERIA 4 3 2 1
CREATIVITY Costumes and Costumes and Some of the There are no
(includes props are props are costumes and props at all.
costumes and unique. appropriate. props are
props) inappropriate.
ADAPTATION The The The The
presentation is presentation is presentation is presentation is
copied but copied but copied but copied.
most of it is added with a added with a
originally twist. little twist.
adapted.

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 OVERALL The The The The
IMPACT presentation is presentation is presentation is presentation is
very pleasing pleasing and pleasing and not pleasing
and entertaining entertaining in and
entertaining from the some part. entertaining.
from the beginning to
beginning to the end.
the end.

VI. ANSWER KEY

Evaluation:
1. A 6. C
2. B 7. B
3. C 8. A
4. D 9. A
5. D 10. A
VII. REFERENCES :
ADM References:

Deped Curriculum Guide

Gerard Lico, Glecy Cruz Atienza, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, J Pilapil Jacobo, Ramon P. Santos. Sining Rehiyon
Contemporary Philippine Arts fron the Regions. C&E Publishing House, Inc. Quezon City: 2018

Wilson K. Panisan, Leslie B. Gazzingan, Gregorio L. Samar, Corie Chuza G. Boongaling. Contemporary
Philippine Arts from the Regions. Mutya Publishing House, Inc. Malabon City:2016

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