Understanding Arts and Arts Education (Theory) Block : Art Education

Disciplines in Performing Arts - Music, Dance, Theatre, Puppetry
The idea of creative art should involve all the elements of commonly known art
forms Music, Dance, Drama Poetry, Creative writing etc. One can add many

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Performing Art Practical
Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed)
more like recitation, storytelling, mime, puppetry, mask-play, simple choreography
and group singing. Inclusion of popular art in the region, whether folk, tribal, or
classical is essential. Also depending on which region your school is located in,
the children in your class may choose any art form. This will be the best way of
introducing the children to dance or music, as the local arts create a much more
significant impact. The teacher should never insist on any particular form. At the
primary stage the focus should be to learn to be comfortable with the body, to
build confidence in standing, speaking loud enough for all to hear, singing together,
etc. You can choose songs and stories that are popular among the performing arts
of your region. However, if the children express interest in some performing art
by name, you could try to get pictures of that art and show them, discussing
interesting features like the make-up, the movement, the costumes used in it,
which would increase their interest in the arts in general.
An Important passage from the text 
“
Historical development of Indian Music-
Swami Pragyananda”
In the remote days, all rites and ceremonies were connected with the elements of
music. Songs of religious character, lullabies, love songs, game and drinking
songs, songs/ music of farming, hunting, marriage, burial, war, travel, seasonal
songs formed an integral and indispensable part of life of the people. The popular
ballads and folk-songs are like narrative accounts of the spontaneous enjoyment
of existence and of domestic events of the people. Total musical narratives of
different occupations like descriptive pictorial songs of the expert Patuas, mystic
songs of the Sahajiyas and the Bauls, dreamy river-songs, magic chants and
tunes of the snake-charmers, hunting tunes of the Santals are commonly found in
all regions of the country. Different musical instruments of folk-music like ektara,
dotara, sarinda, gopiyantra, venu (bamboo flute), tipra, madala,dholaka,
khamaka, anandalahari, khanjanikaratala, etc. bear testimony to the cultural
taste and outlook of the people.