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Origins
Types of Choral Reading
Evolution
Ways of Performing
Things to Watch out for
100
The culture where choral reading started
Ancient Greece
100
Everyone reads together
CHO
100
Started off being religious festivals, but became this
Drama festivals
100
Mark that indicates a pause or break
Slash
100
People speaking together
Unison
200
This many people speaking together
Large groups
200
Groups take turns
CHO 1, CHO 2, etc.
200
How many towns each chorus had
One
200
Following the rise and fall of sounds when reading
Rhythms
300
The way that groups were expected to speak together
Unison
300
1, 2, 3, 4....
One line per reader, then a group
300
Storylines went from being about gods to this
Battles and local heros
300
Personal feeling or emotion is shown
Expression
300
Solve this problem: In order to become more familiar with speaking the part, you need to _____________ reading it aloud.
Practice
400
These types of writings were set to music
Poems
400
The way that choral readings started in Ancient Greece
CHO
400
Other people repeat the individual speaker's lines
Echoing
400
You need to _____________ what you are reading; if you don't understand it, neither will your audience.
KNOW
500
Began at festivals honoring this Greek god
Dionysis
500
How often do we see choral reading in modern theatre?
Rarely
500
The ultimate prize in the festivals
Goats
500
When you keep bringing in a new person to speak
Adding on
500
You must enunciate and use good inflection in order to be able to do this with your audience
ENGAGE