Connecting with the Arts

Exploring Stereotypes and 19th Century Culture

The English-language production of Franz Lehár's popular operetta "The Merry Widow," from the San Francisco Opera, allows the viewer to appreciate the composer's humor about 19th-century culture and the mores of the day. This lesson explores the plot of the opera and addresses 19th-century themes and the meaning and usefulness of stereotype as a plot device.

Music: Performing Ensembles: Advanced   • Strand 2: Relate   - Concept 1: Understanding the relationships among music, the arts, and other disciplines outside the arts.   o PO 306. exploring the connections between choral text and language arts and social studies (choral only).   o PO 310. analyzing how the basic elements of two or more arts disciplines can be used to express similar events, emotions, scenes, or ideas (e.g., sound in music, movement in dance, images in art, words in poetry).   - Concept 2: Understanding music in relation to history and culture.   o PO 305. identifying and analyzing the context in which the composer wrote the work being played or sung.   - Concept 3: Understanding music in relation to self and universal themes.   o PO 303. describing the various ways that music conveys universal themes (e.g., contrast, conflict, emotion).   Language Arts: Reading Grades 9 -12   • Strand 2: Comprehending Literary Text   - Concept 1: Elements of Literature - Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structures and elements of literature (PO 1 – 6)   Technology: Proficiency 9 -12   • 4T-P1 STANDARD 4: TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS   - Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration and communications See: Language Arts (W-P2-6) and Workplace Skills (1WP-P5)   o PO 1. Using criteria for research in Standard 5, create an end product (e.g., multimedia presentation, publication, Web page) to disseminate the information

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Eras of Elegance (1812-1830)

This site nicely summarizes the characteristics of the Regency period with respect to the Arts. Additional curricular areas are addressed including Science, Social Studies, and Literature.

Visual Arts: Advanced   • Strand 2: Relate   - Concept # 1: Artworlds • The student will describe the role that art plays in culture and how it reflects, records, and interacts with history in various times, places, and traditions. •   PO 302. Discuss how artworks are used to communicate stories, ideas, and emotions •   PO 303. Discuss what an artworld is and its place in culture. •   PO 305. Make connections between art and other curricular areas (e.g., clay production relates to science, contextual information relates to social studies). •   PO 306. Discuss how artworks reflect, ideas, images and symbols from the culture within which they were made.

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