Arts Music, art and making things: recorder lessons, reading notes and rhythm, practising when you would rather not, starting a band, streaming and earworms, how a song is recorded, choirs and talent shows, the instrument families and instruments of the world, concerts, and drawing what you really see.
The arts course of Mova's primary school: 43 lessons, 678 sentences, each sentence with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mova corpus 0.4).
1 Music lessons and the recorder 15 sentences · A recorder is a wooden or plastic pipe with holes; your breath splits on a sharp edge near the top, the air… 2 Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm 17 sentences · Written music is a map of sound: notes sit on five lines called a staff (or stave), and the higher a note si… 3 Practising when you would rather not 17 sentences · Practising is how your fingers and brain learn new moves, but not all practice is equal: twenty minutes fixi… 4 Starting a band 15 sentences · A band is a team where everyone has a job: the drums keep the beat, the bass plays the low notes, a guitar o… 5 The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms 18 sentences · Streaming means playing music over the internet without owning a copy; the app pays a tiny amount for each p… 6 Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record 16 sentences · A music chart is a weekly list of the most popular songs, counted from real numbers: sales, streams and, in… 7 How a song is made: writing, recording, producing 16 sentences · There is no one right order: some writers start with words, some with a tune, a chord pattern or a beat, and… 8 Singing, choirs and talent shows 17 sentences · Your voice is an instrument you carry everywhere: breath from the lungs makes the vocal folds in your throat… 9 Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys 16 sentences · Instruments are sorted into families by HOW they make their sound, not by what they are made of: strings sha… 10 Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more 17 sentences · Every corner of the world built its own instruments from what was at hand: gourds, termite-hollowed branches… 11 Concerts, orchestras and live gigs 16 sentences · Live music is people playing right in front of you, from an orchestra in a grand hall to a busker in the str… 12 Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see 17 sentences · Drawing is a skill learned by practice, like riding a bike: almost every artist's early drawings look odd, a… 13 Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool 17 sentences · With paint, a few colours can make hundreds: painters usually start from three primary colours, red, yellow… 14 Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes 17 sentences · Different paints behave differently: watercolour is thin and spreads in wet paper, acrylic is plastic-based… 15 Famous paintings and the stories behind them 15 sentences · Famous paintings are famous for more than looks: a theft, a war, a mystery or a brave choice of style can ma… 16 Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...) 18 sentences · Famous artists were real people with real lives, and knowing their story often explains their pictures: what… 17 Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there 13 sentences · A museum keeps important objects safe and shows them to everyone: paintings, mummies, dinosaurs, machines; a… 18 Modern art: "my little brother could do that" 17 sentences · Modern art is a loose name for art from about the 1860s to the 1970s, and people often use it for newer art… 19 Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism 17 sentences · Street art is art in public places, and the big question is always the same: did the owner agree? 20 Photography and phone cameras 17 sentences · A camera is a box that catches light: the lens gathers it and the sensor (or, in old cameras, the film) reco… 21 Filters, edits and fake photos 16 sentences · A photo looks like proof, but it is really a choice: someone picked where to point the camera, what to cut o… 22 How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing 14 sentences · A film starts as a script, the written plan of every scene and every line, and then hundreds of people turn… 23 Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons 17 sentences · Animation is a lovely trick on your brain: lots of still pictures, each a tiny bit different, are shown so f… 24 Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons 14 sentences · Turn the sound off during an action scene and it suddenly looks small and a bit silly; turn it back on and t… 25 Special effects and stunts 15 sentences · Some tricks are done on set with models, make-up, rubber suits and careful camera angles; others are added l… 26 Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch 15 sentences · Films get an age rating, a label like U, PG, 12A or 15 in the UK, or G, PG or PG-13 in the US, that warns fa… 27 Theatre: stage, actors, backstage 14 sentences · Theatre is a story told live, right in front of you: the actors are really there, nothing can be re-filmed,… 28 The school play: auditions, lines, stage fright 15 sentences · A school play starts with auditions, where everyone tries out and the director picks who fits each part, and… 29 Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet 15 sentences · Dance is moving to music on purpose, and it comes in every size: a fifteen-second phone dance, a breaking ba… 30 Dances of the world and dancing at parties 16 sentences · Almost every people on Earth has its own dances, and most of them are not for showing off but for being toge… 31 Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime 15 sentences · Crafts are art you make with your hands from real stuff: paper folded into cranes, clay squeezed into pots,… 32 Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas 16 sentences · Building with bricks is two kinds of fun: following the booklet step by step to make the spaceship on the bo… 33 Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts 13 sentences · Almost everything you touch was designed by someone: the tick on your trainers, the font in your book, the c… 34 Buildings and architecture 14 sentences · Architecture is the art of designing buildings: an architect draws the plans, engineers check the building w… 35 Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit 16 sentences · Every artist learns by copying: tracing a fox from a book, singing a famous song, drawing a cartoon characte… 36 AI pictures and AI music, as reported 15 sentences · AI picture and music apps make a dragon or a song from a few typed words, called a prompt, because they were… 37 Being bad at something and keeping going 15 sentences · Everyone is bad at a new skill at first: guitar strings hurt, paintings go muddy, the hands you draw look li… 38 Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback 15 sentences · Feedback is what people tell you about your work so you can make it better, and the useful kind names one th… 39 Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work 17 sentences · Behind every song, film, cartoon and painting are people doing a job: musicians, actors, animators, buskers,… 40 Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz 16 sentences · Show day brings the whole course together: paintings and clay on the walls and tables, an orchestra tuning u… 41 Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ 15 sentences · This olympiad block mixes the music lessons into puzzles: counting beats in bars, reading the names of notes… 42 Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★ 17 sentences · This olympiad block mixes the art lessons into puzzles: chains of colour mixing, putting famous paintings in… 43 Olympiad: film, stage and design puzzles ★★★ 15 sentences · This last olympiad block mixes film, animation, theatre, design, buildings and building bricks into puzzles:… ← previous AInext → Biology↑ back to the school This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/