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This 155-card flashcard set surveys the vocabulary and concepts of fine arts instruction across music, visual art, drama, dance, and digital media. It covers elements and principles of design, the creative process, performing and presenting standards, and contemporary topics like universal design for learning and arts integration. Use it for college students preparing for fine arts exams, teaching certification review, or self-study across multiple arts disciplines.

Subject:
Art
Grade Level:
College
Updated May 2026

Terms in This Set

  • Movement in Drama
  • Creative Process
  • Action
  • Time in drama
  • Reflect
  • Time in media art
  • Milly Rock
  • organized sound and silence
  • Media Art Examples:
  • Form in Music
  • Form in visual art
  • Conflict
  • Creativity
  • Social Dance
  • Rhythm in Music
  • Cabbage Patch
  • Energy
  • Movement
  • digital storytelling
  • Rhythm in Drama
  • Relationship
  • Street Dance
  • Musical performance
  • Salsa
  • Character
  • universal design for learning (UDL)
  • The Shay Shay
  • Prepare
  • Contrast
  • The Juba Dance
  • Situation
  • differentiation
  • Space in drama
  • The Four strands of Fine Arts Instruction- PERFORM/ PRESENT/ PRODUCE
  • Media Art
  • Genre
  • Social Dance Trends
  • Composition
  • Balance
  • Tableaux vivant
  • Line
  • Digital Art
  • arts integration
  • The elements of music
  • twenty-first-century skills
  • Belly Dance
  • Ballet
  • Complementary colors
  • Benefits of the creative process
  • Indie Music
  • Melody
  • Tap
  • The Four strands of Fine Arts Instruction- CONNECT
  • triptych artwork
  • Stage direction
  • Primary colors
  • Conceptualize
  • Language
  • Tango
  • Theater tools and techniques
  • Folk Dance
  • Digital Arts Elements:
  • Choreography
  • Expression in music
  • Sound in media art
  • The Four strands of Fine Arts Instruction
  • Expression in drama
  • Music directing
  • Secondary colors
  • Lighting
  • Symbol
  • inclusion
  • Mood
  • Reading music
  • Unity in design
  • Tension
  • The Organizing Principles of Drama
  • Ballroom
  • individualized education program (IEP)
  • The Four strands of Fine Arts Instruction- RESPOND
  • Pantomime
  • Disco Music
  • The Running Man
  • Brainstorming
  • Middle
  • Time in dance
  • Social-emotional learning (SEL)
  • The elements of visual art
  • Pattern
  • The Fundamentals of Music
  • Create
  • The phases of the Creative Process
  • The Four strands of Fine Arts Instruction- CREATE
  • Whip - Nae Nae
  • Styles of Dance
  • Waltz
  • Develop
  • Unity in visual art
  • Jazz
  • Sequence of Muscial Instruction
  • Value
  • The principles of design
  • Analogous color
  • Genres of Music
  • self-awareness
  • The Twist
  • The organizing principles of Drama
  • Contrast
  • Space in visual art
  • Texture
  • 2-Dimensional
  • Repetition
  • Foreground
  • Harmony
  • 3-Dimensional
  • Digital Arts Examples:
  • Divergent thinking
  • Dramatic Focus
  • The Elements of Dance
  • The Bop
  • The Charleston
  • Movement in media art
  • Proxemics
  • social-awareness
  • Setting
  • Body
  • The Elements of Drama
  • Country Music
  • Teaching a song in the correct order
  • Process over Product
  • Space in media art
  • Space in dance
  • Background
  • Sequence of Musical Instruction
  • 1-Dimensional
  • Plot
  • Visual weight
  • Projection
  • Critical thinking
  • Rote Method
  • Unity in drama
  • Very Special Arts (VSA)
  • self-management
  • artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Emphasis
  • Arituclation
  • Vocal Variety
  • Revise
  • Proportion
  • Convergent thinking
  • Shape
  • Tertiary colors
  • Jazz Music
  • Role
  • Media Art Elements:

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