A SEMI-DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN MAPEH 10

FIRST QUARTER

I. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic: 20th Century Musical Styles: Electronic and Chance Music

Sub-topics :
Electronic Music
Chance Music
Composers (Cage, Stockhausen, Varese)
B. Materials :
Video clips from YouTube or the internet of Electronic and Chance Music
Laptop and TV Set
Pictures, slides, video clips of musical gadgets used especially in Electronic Music
Sound makers like stones, rice, radios, horns, and kitchen utensils
C. Reference: Music Grade 10 LM. Pages 25-30

II. LESSON PROPER

A. PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY

1. Review: Let the students go over the concepts they have learned about Impressionism,
Expressionism.

2. Motivation:

a. Hold a “Chance Music Experience.” Ask one student to simulate a performance

concert sitting in front of the piano, keyboard, singing with a microphone, just holding a guitar,
or holding any other musical instrument for 3 minutes without playing these.

b. Discuss the performance and get reactions and observations from the class. What did
they think? hear? see? feel? touch? smell?

c. Use the experience as a bridge to the topic of the lesson.

B. DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITY

1. Let the students listen attentively to CD recordings of Electronic and Chance Music.

2. Ask them to define/describe each of the two musical styles introduced in the recordings they
listened to.

3. Discuss the history, characteristics, and operations of the two kinds of musical styles.

4. Have the students experiment with sounds on materials they had brought to class to create
Chance Music. Divide the class into four or five groups, each with a written plan of
what to accomplish.

5. Perform this experiment with a live concert of the two musical styles in the classroom.

6. Use new electronic equipment (if available) to listen to different sounds from the instruments
(Example: synthesizer, cassette tape recorder, DVD player, karaoke, and others that
you may think of).

C. INTEGRATION

1. Integrate the use of electronic equipment, if available, and other materials that can produce
sound as well as the use of modern technology gadgets in Music with lessons in
Physics, Vocational Education, and Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE).

2. Show a picture of an action painting by Jackson Pollock and compare it with chance music.

Infusion of values: Appreciation of the beauty of nature and the realization of their
contribution to the environment.
 D. GENERALIZATION

The modern musical tradition experimented with new sounds in classical music through such
styles as Electronic Music and Chance Music. Through this experimentation, the novelty of sounds
emanating from sources other than the traditional musical instruments played a major role in the
compositions being created.

III. WHAT TO KNOW

Have the students answer the following:

1. Who was the French composer known as the “Father of Electronic Music?

2. What are some of the new musical approaches of Cage?

3. Give an example of a musical work by Varese, Stockhausen, and Cage.

VI. WHAT TO PERFORM

A. Activity 1:

Experimentation with the Sounds of 20th Century Music Systems

Let the students do the following activity:

1. Chance Music – Put small items inside a bag. Include coins, pens, pins, small bells, and other
articles with percussive sounds. Pour the bag’s contents on a hard surface. Then, using a cellphone or
other available device, record the sounds that are produced. Put the items back in the bag. Then
unload the same, while once again recording the sounds being produced. Note the changes between
the two sets of sounds recorded.

2. Electronic Music – Create short electronic music pieces using yourknowledge of 20th century
musical styles.

Prepared by: Checked by:

NORMAN C. ABALOS OSCAR D. GARCIA

Teacher I Master Teacher I

Noted:
JULIA C. TAGULAO
Principal IV