Theatre

NOUNS

stall (Br. E.) dressing – room touring company

pit foyer summer tour

dress-circle cloak – room 1-st appearance

upper circle check (dress) rehearsal

box booking office matinee

balcony usher / usherette entr'acte

gallery attendant new production

promenade (Am. E) programme stage direction

aisle ticket sharks stage impersonation

wings playwright character actor

scenes producer comic actor

curtains make-up man comedian

backstage minor role interval

prompt – box prompter

footlights company

VERBS

to stage

to stage well

this play doesn't stage well

to quit the stage

to be a failure

MUSIC

NOUNS

tone, note scale solo, soloist

performance musical composition / piece serious / popular music

parts / movements of a conductor baton

symphony score quartet

rostrum trio composer/musician

duet vocal a pop/rock band

chorus Opera House jazz

choir key live music

vocalist instrumentalist ballad, carol, lullaby

symphony Concert Hall

symphony orchestra:

the strings / string section bow instruments bow

violin, fiddle, alto viola cello

double-bass harp guitar

percussion section :

drum cymbals timpani

wind section: woodwind instruments brass instruments

flute bassoon trombone

horn oboe trumpet

clarinet

popular music, jazz:

electric guitar synthesizer keyboard

saxophone bass guitar

Adjectives

sweet superficial keen

expressive enchanting obsessive

deep scrappy

WORD COMBINATIONS

tune the instrument sing out of tune have an ear for music gifted musician

CINEMA

NOUNS

producer 1-st showing

director 1- st night

director of photography 9:30 show

scriptwriter newsreel

crew documentary

editing, cutting feature film

cameraman screen version

sets designer soap opera

cast series, sequel

star, lead action film

extras thriller

stuntman (stunt) musical

camerawork (TV) commercial

shooting location subtitles

setting, sets set-up

sound track title

storyline, plot cartoon

screenplay, script to dub

review

VERBS

be on (the air) shoot a film play the lead

the film is showing in release a film star

be set on ... location steal / dominate the show dub a film

III trimester.

Cultural Heritage. Arts.

Art: contemporary trends:

modern classical

post-modern renaissance

ancient romantic

classical realist

popular (pop art) impressionist

BCE(before common era)=BC(before Christ) abstract

CE(common era)=AD(Anno Domine)

up-and-coming artist

message

installation

graffiti

to communicate a message

to reflect life

to live up to expectations

PAINTING

draw, drawing, oil-painting genre brush-stroke

easel portrait background

frame battle – scene foreground

canvas landscape detail

paints still life connoisseur

oil marine art exhibition

water-colour seascape (to exhibit), the item

gouache etching Art Gallery

hues of the spectrum print Art Show

tint engraving sculpture

technique fresco sculptor

mode of expression sketch clay

genre – painting preliminary sketch varnish

abstract painting installation graffiti