James Adriane P.

Sobiono June 25, 2022

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ARTS APPRECIATION

Activity

I. Define the following terms below

1. Melody

-is a combination of pitch and rhythm. And a sequence of single notes that is

musically satisfying.

2. Dynamics

-means how quietly or loudly a piece of music should be played.

3. Harmony

-is the process by which individual sounds are joined together or composed into

whole units or compositions.

4. Rhythm

- a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

5. Timbre

-the quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.

Sound quality or tone color, also the characteristics that allows us to distinguish

between one instrument and another also the difference between vowels sounds.

6. Vocal medium

-Refers to the human voices

7. Ensemble medium

-is produced when two or more performers equally sing or play a piece of music

8. Percussion
 -musical instrument played by striking with hand or with a handheld or pedal-

operated stick, or by shaking.

9. Rock concert

-is a musical performance in the style of any one of many genres inspired by

“rock and roll” music.

10. Gagaku

-means elegant music and genre of Japanese music.

II.Essay

Write a summary of a narrative film (true to life story) that you have watched or

seen in the movies.

“ American Sniper ”

“Sniper” is based on a true story that got more complicated after Kyle himself told it in
the book that gives the film its title. Adapted from that book by actor-turned-screenwriter
Jason Dean Hall, the story begins, after its Iraq-set prologue, showing Kyle as first a
boy and then a young man. A schoolyard bullying incident compels Kyle’s father (Ben
Reed) to give a scary dinner-table fire-and-brimstone speech to Chris and younger
brother Jeff about showing would-be tough guys who’s boss (“we protect our own”); the
weight of expectation seems to jam the two boys down, and in a flash-forward to the
boys as young men, they’re leading the aimless lives of wannabe rodeo stars. That all
changes when Chris decides to apply to join the Special Forces (the film depicts him
doing so after seeing TV coverage of the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania
and Kenya). As he’s developing a new sense of purpose while training, he also meets
future wife Taya (Sienna Miller). Post 9/11, the war in Iraq puts Kyle to work as a
sharpshooter, and the film depicts his skills in this area as almost eerie.
They were so in real life, too, as it happens; Kyle racked up 160 confirmed kills, making
him the deadliest such operative in U.S. Navy history. Eastwood’s handling of various
battle scenarios, including those in which Kyle is compelled to take down women and
children, is typically anti-elaborate for the director. Grim, purposeful, compelling.
Violence and its relation to both American history and the American character is one of
Eastwood’s great themes as both a filmmaker and a film actor. But he is not a director
of an overly analytical or intellectualizing bent, and this turns out to be one of this
movie’s great strengths. It has nothing to say about whether the war in Iraq was a good
or bad idea. It simply IS, and Kyle is an actor in it, and he’s also a devoted husband and
father. But Kyle is more than just an actor in the war: he’s a true believer in what he’s
doing, and his intensity in this respect bleeds into his relationships back at home in
ways that can’t help but be unsettling. When a fellow soldier is killed in a raid, Kyle
returns to the U.S. to attend the funeral.

At the graveside, a relative of the soldier’s reads one of his last letters, expressing doubt
and disappointment about the war. On the drive home Chris avers to Taya that what
killed his friend was “that letter.” Taya doesn’t know how to respond; the viewer likely
doesn’t, either, or at least shouldn’t. The role of Taya (well-played by Sienna Miller; this
and her turn in “Foxcatcher” represent a release from Movie Jail for the actress) could
have been another stock Complaining Military Wife in other hands. In this film, she’s
more complex; she clearly knows that the qualities she admires/loves in Kyle—his rigid
loyalty and sharp focus, his determination to see his commitments through—are
inextricable from his identity as a military operative. But even a warrior as devoted as
Kyle can’t escape being messed with by his mission. As the film continues, and the
sniper’s rep grows more fearsome, the nature of his accomplishments gets messier and
messier, and by the time the sniper has completed his tour, the viewer has good reason
to be a little, or more than a little, frightened by the guy. But Taya is not. This puts the
whole story on an oddly suspended note that, as it happens, is resolved by a real-life
ending that’s not very Hollywood.