CSET Multiple Subjects

Moving part of the body away from the axis or middle of the body

Moving part of the body toward the axis or middle of the body

A controllable, chronic disorder characterized by sudden attacks of coughing and difficulting breathing

The forces governing the interaction of the body with the natural universe. Force projection and force absorption

The ratio of fat tissue to muscle and other lean tissues in the body

The ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems to continue supplying oxygen to the body during prolonged exercise

A controllable, chronic disorder, requiring insulin treatment and dietary monitoring to maintain stable blood sugar levels

Movements using small muscle groups

The ability of a joint to move in a range of motion

In relation to exercise, how often exercise is performed (daily, weekly)

An ancient harp

A recurring group of notes

A large section of a lengthy composition

A drama, either tragic or comic, this is sung to an orchestral accompaniment. It is often based on biblical stories.  it is typically a large scale composition with vocal soloists, a chorus, and orchestra

A work, usually identified by a number

A major orchestral piece with solo voices and chorus

A musical form whose main feature is the return of the main theme, which alternates with secondary themes (Simple: ABABA, 2nd ABACA, 3rd ABACABA)

Typically, multimovement instrumental work for solo keyboard, or keyboard and another small chamber ensemble

A structure of a song in which the first section of a simple ternary form is repeated. For example, AABA

• ancient Greek form of tragicomedy. 
• They always featured a chorus of satyrs and were based in Greek mythology and contained themes of, among other things, drinking, overt sexuality (often including large phallic props,) pranks, and general merriment

the part of the stage on the actor's left as the actor faces the audience

the part of the stage on the actor's right as the actor faces the audience

a character who thinks or acts according to a certain pattern based on presuppositions about race, social group, or gender

In the 18th and 19th and early 20th centuries, a form of resident company in which actors were hired according to lines of work and a large number of plays were prepared very quickly, "summer stock" used now is similar.

Representation of what each screen of a multimedia project will look like and how the screens are linked; often hand-drawn sketches

The speed with which incidents that make up the action take place

At least some parts of the state extends into, or is surrounded by the audience

at or toward the rear of the stage

• In Roman times, these were tunnels that allowed the audience to enter and exit large theatres easily. 
• In contemporary theatres, the tunnels allow the actors to reach the downstage portions of a thrust stage by passing through the audience

A level of moral development during which a child focuses on what one is supposed to do and begins to understand social order

A stage of cognitive development during which a child enters into the world of abstract thought

Treatable conditions suffered by many students

Thinking about thinking

One of the eight distinct types of intelligence developed by Howard Gardner

The concept that a seen object still exists after being hidden from sight

A level of moral development during which a child avoids wrongdoing only to evade punishment

A stage of cognitive development during which a child is trapped in an egocentric perspective, but is still mastering language skills

How a child thinks about himself

A child's feelings about himself

Movements using large muscle groups

In relation to exercise, how difficult an exercise session is

Movement that results in location change

The ability of a muscle to perform repetitions of a task

The ability of a muscle to exert force on an object

Movement that does not result in a locating change

When throwing a ball, the foot opposite the throwing hand steps forward

In relation to fitness, the concept that the only way to progress is to increase level of difficulty

In relation to fitness, the concept that the level of difficulty should be gradually increased, beginning at a difficulty level corresponding to the initial fitness level

In relation to fitness, the concept that specific types of exercise are appropriate to increase specific types of fitness

Using up blood glucose can cause this problem for diabetics

Balance, power, agility, reaction time, speed, coordination

Basic functional structure of the neuromuscular system

Utilization of phosphagen and lactic acid by the athletes body, allowing them to perform brief, near maximum muscular activity

Stretching is an example of

The motion of a kick can be divided into how many phases

This is how energy is derived when oxygen is utilized to metabolize substraits obtained from food, and delivering energy to working muscles

Helps balance muscle groups that might be overused during exercise or physical activity or as a result of bad posture

Single best predictor of a child and adult adaption

Chronic delinquency is most often linked to

based in a pasture; based on love, centered around shepherds, nymphs, and refined satyrs

In the Elizabethan theater, the portion of the theater directly in front of the stage.  Lowest admission fee, and patrons had to stand during the play.  Today it is the orchestra

the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals

The series of incidents that make up the action of a play

an opening in a wall that stands between the stage and the house that becomes the frame through which the audience sees the play

The form of physical configuration between the actor and the audience encouraged by the proscenium arch

the leading character, hero of a drama

English comedy of the period of the Restoration, stressing manners and social satire.  Glittering language, salacious plots, and frequently debauched characters

stage which turns in a circle

In traditional dramatic structure, the portion of the plot that begins with the inciting incident and continues until the climax.  Expected to be built on intensity and frequency, often alternating good and bad news, in such a way to increase suspense.

In relation to exercise, for how long an exercise is performed in a single session

Musical notes played with the left hand on a piano, having deeper sound than the bass clef

Three or more harmonious notes played together.  Instruments with multiple strings can play chords (guitar, piano)

An artwork composed of various materials

What we see as a result of the reflection or absorption of light off any surface. Its main characteristics are hue, intensity, and value

Exchange of lines between actors in theatrical production

In a piece of music, the variation between louder and softer sections

A dancer's transformation and release of potential energy into kinetic energy; how dancers move

Shape, structure, or organization in a piece of music

When a note of a different pitch on a musical scale sounds good when played simultaneously with a piece's melody

The distance between notes on a musical scale

The series of horizontal planes rising one above the other, from the performance surface, through which dancers move

In visual art, the movement of a point through space. Described in terms of width, length, flow, direction, and curvature

A grouping of a specified number of musical beats located between two consecutive vertical lines on a staff

The tune of a piece of music

A dramatic speech performed by one actor

A series of tableaux performed on stage

How long the melody of a piece of music is performed, defined by when a breath is taken

Wavelengths or frequencies of sound

The reason a work of art is completed

The distinctive quality of a particular sound

In dance, formally measured meter or informally the rhythms of a dancer's body movements

Musical notation indicating the number of beats per bar and the type of note that gets a beat

Musical notes played with the right hand on a piano, having a higher sound than the bass clef

The process by which a child incorporates new experience into the previous understandings, and modifies those existing concepts to include new information

The process by which a child interprets a new experience in terms of their previous understandings

States that a child who has formed secure attachments to others is confident in exploring her physical environment, forms friendships easily, and possesses a sense of compentency.  The opposite has not formed secure attachment to others

Acceptance of responsibility of ones behavior

A stage of cognitive development during which a child acquires reasoning skills and is able to differentiate between her viewpoints and others

The most common type of performance space, named for the proscenium arch which frames the actors

In music, the pattern of stressed and unstressed beats, measured units of time

In visual art, 2D equivalent of form

• In dance, the immediate spherical area surrounding the dancer's body, extending in all directions.
• in visual art, absense of shape or form

The group of lines on which notes are written

In art, a type of visual balance, where if an imaginary line is drawn down the middle, each side mirrors the other

In theater, the silent deception of a static scene

The rate at which musical beats follow one another, speed

The tactile quality of a work of art

A stage of cognitive development during which a child learns to differentiate between herself and the external world, become aware of object permanence

The essence of an idea applied to the art of movement

in music, slower tempo. The opposite of allegro. It is also a set of exercise practice in class consisting of extensions and balances

The way in which various parts of the dancers body are in line with on another while the dancer is moving

in music, quick or lively movements

A pose in which the working leg is extended with a straight knee directly behind the body

A pose modeled after the statue of the winged Mercury by Giovanni Bologna in which the working leg is extended behind the body with the knee bent; it can also be held in front of the body

A round rail attached to the wall horizontally, about three and a half inches off the floor.  For dancers to hold during the first half of technique class.  Also used for stretching the legs by placing the or legs on it

• Included locomotor and axial
• Locomotor (moving from one place to another)
• Axial (contained movement around an axis of the body)

The steps of a dance put together for performance or the art of composing dance

In a character-character interaction, the total array of purposeful activity, both external (physical) and internal (psychological). Characters attempt to achieve their objective

the character who works against the protagonist in the story

Arena, or theatre-in-the-round, staging needs only an open place with room for actors and audience.  The playing space, surrounded by the audience, may be a circle of 15 or 20 feet in diameter or a square or rectangle of comparable size.  The actors use the aises for entrance or exit

• Traditional theatre thought to be espoused by Aristotle.
• Clear simple plotting; strong characters; high levels of intellectual content, a minimum of spectacle.
• Plays should include three unities, (unity of one main action, unity of one physical space, and unity of time) to be written in five acts, avoid violence, and not mix comedy and tragedy

To decide upon the gross movements of actors on stage; assign the physical relationship of actors

• Oldest professional theatre. 
• Plays performed in large theatres located in a few blocks NYC. 
• Productions sold to investors, with substantial return on investment. 
• Long runs of a single play, frequent use of star performers

The middle of the stage area

a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play

• Time as a linear experience related to cause and effect.
• Leave out unimportant passages of time to capture essence of story.
• Later developed Flashback and Flash-forward

the decisive moment in a novel or play

Feeling the dance movements of others in one's own muscles

A part of pas de deux in which one dancer is lifted off the ground by another

The arrangement of head, shoulders, arms, torso, and legs while dancing

• Type of creative dance involving specialized movement techniques;
• emphasis is on expression and communication

Sequences, motifs, and phrases developed as the choreographed dance

• Literally a "step for two"
• Any section of a dance performed by two dancers together

A "passing" position in which the foot passes by the knee of the supporting leg

• "The twirl or spin"
• A turn on one foot that can be executed outward (away from the body) or inward (toward the body)

Dancing on the toes

A term coined in the 1960's by those who wanted to create movement outside the influences of any of the then traditional modern dance pioneers, such as Cunningham, Humphrey, Limon, Graham, and Taylor

A story that ends happily. More serious than a farce. Characters less developed than in a drama

All the people associated with the production

The central feature of dramatic action; the arrangement of the objectives of two or more strong characters in such a way that those objectives are competing and mutually exclusive

• The meaning conveyed by connotative symbols.
• Symbols that are vague in the terms of strict definition, but rich in poetic meaning.
• Evokes emotion rather than intellectual response

• What is portrayed in theatre, namely the interaction of another character or something in the environment.
• If interaction is with another person, it is character-character interaction

Rules for performers specific  to culture, styles, and individual production

Students improvise scenes for their own growth, not for an audience

the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work

• Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show.
• Provide artistic meaning to the experience

the part of the stage closest to the audience

An adagio movement in which the dancer pivots completely around on one foot while maintaining a pose with the working leg

• A period from about 120 to 1870 in which ballet was characterized primarily by supernatural subject matter
• Long white tutus, dancing on the toes, and theatrical innovations that permitted the dimming of the house lights for theatrical illusion

Focusing the eyes on one point in the distance in order to keep balance while turning

Music played by one to twenty performers

The combination of tones that produces of quality of relaxation

The combination of tones that produces a quality of tension

• Based on a short theme called a subject. It contains both the rhythmic and melodic motifs.
• The opening is announced by one voice alone. A second voice then restates the subject

A type of German song

A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

Discriminating, often scholarly, interpretation and analysis of the play

The central question that lingers on the audience's mind at the end of each scene. Based on the plot events that have unfolded on stage, the audience is wondering how these events will affect the future of the play

the stage surround the audience

introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation

a transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story

The relationship of all parts of plays of certain type considered apart from any single example of that type

• A single play that typically fulfills the expectation for a complete theatrical experience.
• The play has 3-5 acts, usually 2-4 hours

The act of casting light upon an otherwise darkened stage

• An elaborate musical composition, many of which are between 20-45 in length. 
• Consists of four movements that are intended to stir up emotions though contrasts in tempo and mood.

• A rhythmic effect produced when the expected rhythmic pattern is deliberately upset
• In music, an uneven pattern of stressed beats

How many phases can throwing/pitching a ball be divided into

When exercising with asthma, how many minutes should one take to warm up

In motor development, what phase is striking "striking skills"

Development proceeds from the head downward

Landing in a vertical jump activity

Using scissors

Refers to the lexicon of dance as taught in the original academies; this is also used in reference to ballets as created during the Imperial Russian days

Dance movement that is primary and nonfunctional, with emphasis on body mastery for expressive and communicative purposes

All-inclusive term meaning the aesthetics of movement. It is organized moves with a beginning, middle, and end in sequential form

On the ball of the foot or half toe

The ability to get up into the air and remain there long enough to perform various movements or poses

Raising the leg to a straightened position with the foot very high above the ground; the ability to life and hold the leg in position off the ground

A leap from one leg to the other in which the woring leg is kicked or thrown away from the body and into the air

In this leap, the dancer turns halfway in midair to land facing the direction which the movement is started

• Movement without previous planning
• Acting without script or prepared text
• Spontaneous movement and speech to create a character

• The first incident in a chain of events called the "rising action."
• It is the incident that throws the world of play into disequilibrium.
• The remainder of the play is trying to reestablish the balance.

• A popular type of Japanese drama combined with music and dance
• Played by all men

• The plan of the stage showing the location of each lighting instrument
• Its size and characters and the area of the stage that the light will fall

• Genre of drama placed between tragedy and drama.
• Largely serious, but saved from destruction in the end

In lighting, the use of elements of stage lighting to support emotional states in the audience of a play

• Theatre plotting in which more than one story line is presented, usually simultaneaously.
• Plots are kept separate, until the end of the play, at which point they often intersect

• Plays of the neoclassic period
• Renaissance writers attempt to recapture of the glory in the Greek and Rome times.

A play of short duration (less than an hour) that can be presented without an intermission or major changes in the scenery.

• In ancient Greek times, there was an open dancing area.
• In modern use, the orchestra is the lowest and usually most expensive seats directly in front of the stage.
• An instrumental ensemble composed of strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion