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Philippine Literature

Seven Arts

Submitted by: Mary Ann A. Peralta May 27 2019

Submitted to: Belinda Luz Rollon BSRT 2
 Classical Music
The Four Seasons
By: Antonio Vivaldi

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a

set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.
Composed in 1725, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi’s
best-known work, and is among the most popular
pieces in the classical music repertoire. The texture
of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season. For
example, “Winter” is peppered with silvery pizzicato notes from the high
strings, calling to mind icy rain, whereas “Summer” evokes a
thunderstorm in its final movement, which is why the movement is often
called “Storm” (as noted in the list of derivative works).
The concertos were first published in 1725 as part of a set of twelve
concerti, Vivaldi’s Op. 8, entitled Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione
(The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). Vivaldi dedicated their
publication to a Bohemian patron, Count Václav Morzin (of Vrchlabí
1676–1737), and in so mentioned the count’s longstanding regard for
these four, in particular (which had apparently been performed with the
nobleman’s orchestra, in Prague’s Morzin Palace)—although his
dedication may have been closely related to the completion of an
Augustinian monastery that year, where Vivaldi, a priest himself, refers
to Morzin, the church’s dedicator, as “Chamberlain and Counsellor to His
Majesty, the Catholic Emperor”—while (as Maestro di Musica in Italy)
Vivaldi presents them anew, with sonnets or enhancements for clear
interpretation. The first four concertos are designated Le quattro
stagioni, each being named after a season. Each one is in three
movements, with a slow movement between two faster ones (and these
movements likewise vary in tempo amid the seasons as a whole). At the
time of writing The Four Seasons, the modern solo form of the concerto
had not yet been defined (typically a solo instrument and accompanying
orchestra)[citation needed]. Vivaldi’s original arrangement for solo violin
with string quartet and basso continuo helped to define the form of the
concerto.
 Classical Dance

Cariñosa
By: Filipino

Meaning the loving or affectionate one) is a

Philippine dance of colonial era origin from
the Maria Clara suite of Philippine folk
dances, where the fan or handkerchief plays
an instrumental role as it places the couple
in romance scenario.
meaning the loving or affectionate one) is a
Philippine dance of colonial era origin from
the Maria Clara suite of Philippine folk dances, where
the fan or handkerchief plays an instrumental role as it places the couple in
romance scenario. According to the book of Francisca Reyes-
Aquino, Philippine Folk Dances, Volume 2, there is a different version of the
dance in the region of Bicol. In the Bicol Region Carinosa, hide and seek
movement is different ways. In the original version, the dancers used the Fan
and handkerchief as the way to do the hide and seek movement, in Bicol they
used two handkerchiefs holding the two corners of the handkerchief and doing
the hide and seek movement as they point their foot forward and their hands go
upward together with their handkerchiefs following the movement. It is a
complicated step however it is still used in Bicol Region during festivals and
social gatherings. Originally, the Cariñosa was danced with Maria Clara
dress and Barong Tagalog for it is a Maria Clara Spanish Dance when it was
introduced. In addition, Filipino wore the patadyong kimona and camisa de
chino to reveal nationalism. (a native dress of the Tagalogregions), camisa (a
white sleeve) or patadyong kimona (a dress of the Visayan of people) and for
boys, a barong Tagalog and colored pants. Because it is the national dance, the
dancers may wear any Filipino costumes.
 Classical Painting
Lavanderas
By: Fernando Amorsolo

The washerlady, au naturel, and the river where she is washing clothes, are
noted from their common factor: both are unintruded by man. Virginal is the
lady. Pollution-free is the river of debris and nonbiodegradable refuse of man.
The closed parenthesis formation of light on the lady’s left side follows the
contours of her curves for cohesion. Light descends on some of the leaves at the
left top corner and down the cloth being washed in a rhythmic pattern, with the
washerlady maintaining her innocence, and keeping her eyes on the clothes she
is washing. Amorsolo brought light to the Philippine painting, Fernando Zobel
once said.
 Classical Theatre
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespear

Probably written in 1599, Julius Caesar was the earliest of Shakespeare's three
Roman history plays. Like Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus, Julius
Caesar is a dramatization of actual events, Shakespeare drawing upon the
ancient Roman historian Plutarch's Lives of Caesar, Brutus, and Mark Antony as
the primary source of the play's plot and characters. The play is tightly
structured. It establishes the dramatic problem of alarm at Julius Caesar's
ambition to become "king" (or dictator) in the very first scene and introduces
signs that Caesar must "beware the Ides of March" from the outset. Before its
midpoint, Caesar is assassinated, and shortly after Mark Antony's famous
funeral oration ("Friends, Romans, and countrymen … "), the setting shifts
permanently from Rome to the battlefields on which Brutus and Cassius meet
their inevitable defeat. Julius Caesar is also a tragedy; but despite its title, the
tragic character of the play is Brutus, the noble Roman whose decision to take
part in the conspiracy for the sake of freedom plunges him into a personal
conflict and his country into civil war.Literary scholars have debated for
centuries about the question of who exactly is the protagonist of this play. The
seemingly simple answer to this question would be Julius Caesar himself—after
all, the play is named after him, and the events of the play all relate to him.
However, Caesar only appears in three scenes (four if the ghost is included),
thus apparently making him an unlikely choice for the protagonist who is
supposed to be the main character. Meanwhile, Brutus, who is in the play much
more often than Caesar (and actually lasts until the final scene), is not the title
character of the play and is listed in the dramatis personae not only after Caesar
but after the entire triumvirate and some senators who barely appear in the play.
 Classical Sculpture
Athena Promachos
By: Phidias
According to Pausanias, the Greek traveller and
geographer of the 2nd century CE, the colossal
30-foot-high bronze seated statue of Athena
Promachos (Athena Who Fights in the Foremost
Ranks), by the 5th-century-BCE Athenian
sculptor Phidias, was set up in the open behind the
Propylaea, her gleaming helmet and spear visible
to mariners off Cape Sunium (Soúnion) 30 miles
away. The 6th-
century Byzantine emperor Justiniancarried the
statue off to Constantinople (now Istanbul), just as
Phidias’s ivory and gold statue of Athena had
been taken from the Parthenon. Both of these masterpieces were lost to other
looters in the Crusaders’ sack of Constantinople in 1204. Other statues stood in
profusion amid small temples, such as the sculptor Myron’s group of Marsyas
and Athena, his Perseus, and his heifer; Phidias’s Lemnian Athena and his
Pericles; and a gigantic bronze effigy of the Trojan horse. There was an altar to
Athena Hygeia (the Health Giver), a precinct sacred to the goddess Artemis
Brauronia (named after a statue of her, brought from the town of Brauron), the
Pandroseum (a building named after Pandrosos, a girl associated with Athena in
legend), where the sacred olive tree of Athena grew, and, beyond the Parthenon,
the great altar of Athena.
Less than 1,000 feet (300 metres) southeast of the Parthenon is the New
Acropolis Museum, which was designed by Bernard Tschumi and opened in
2009. A dramatic glass and concrete structure, it has some 10 times the
exhibition space of the old Acropolis Museum.
 Classical Book
Lord of the Flies: A Modern Classic
By: William Golding
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–
winning British author William Golding. The book
focuses on a group of British boys stranded on
an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to
govern themselves.
The novel has been generally well received. It was
named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching
number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list.
In 2003 it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big
Read poll, and in 2005 Time magazine named it as one
of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to
2005.
Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. Although it did
not have great success after being released—selling fewer than three thousand
copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print—it soon went
on to become a best-seller. It has been adapted to film twice in English, in 1963
by Peter Brook and 1990 by Harry Hook, and once in Filipino by Lupita A.
Concio (1975).
The book takes place in the midst of an unspecified war.[3] Some of the
marooned characters are ordinary students, while others arrive as a musical
choir under an established leader. With the exception of Sam and Eric and the
choirboys, they appear never to have encountered each other before. The book
portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves on a paradisiacal island,
far from modern civilization, the well-educated boys regress to a primitive state.
Golding wrote his book as a counterpoint to R.M. Ballantyne's youth novel The
Coral Island (1858),[4]and included specific references to it, such as the rescuing
naval officer's description of the boys' initial attempts at civilised cooperation as
"a jolly good show, like the Coral Island".[5] Golding's three central characters—
Ralph, Piggy and Jack—have been interpreted as caricatures of
Ballantyne's Coral Islandprotagonists.