Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

General
definitions of music include common elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and the sonic
qualities of timbre and texture. Different styles or types of music may emphasize, de-emphasize
or omit some of these elements. 

Influences from the west to the east merged into the pre-Christian music of the Greeks and later
the Romans. Musical practices and conventions perhaps conveyed by travelling musicians
brought a wealth of diversity and invention.

Surviving Greek notation from this period of musical history has given scientists and
musicologists alike a vital clue to the way that the music of the time might have sounded. It
certainly indicates remarkable links to the music that would follow, perhaps most notably
through the use of modality in Greek music.

In the frescoes and in some written accounts, including the Bible, we have learned about the
instruments that featured in the Roman and Greek times and their significance to the cultures.
The trumpet as an instrument of announcement and splendid ceremony, or the lyre as an integral
player in the songs of poets.

Across Europe from the early part of the first century, the monasteries and abbeys became the
places where music became embedded into the lives of those devoted to God and their followers.

Christianity had established itself and with it came a new liturgy that demanded a new music.
Although early Christian music had its roots in the practices and beliefs of the Hebrew people,
what emerged from this was to become the basis for sacred music for centuries to come. The
chants that were composed devoutly followed the sacred Latin texts in a fashion that was tightly
controlled and given only to the glory of God. Music was very much subservient to the words,
without flourish or frivolity.

It was Pope Gregory (540-604 AD), who is credited with moving the progress of sacred music
forward and developing what is now called Gregorian Chant, characterises by the haunting sound
of the open, perfect fifth.
Some controversy surrounds this claim, but the name has stuck and the music remains distinct
and vitally important as it moves away from plainchant towards polyphony. This, in turn, looked
back to earlier times and customs, particularly in the music of the Jewish people where the idea
of a static drone commonly underpinned a second vocal line.

Music Theory Rudiments are simply the fundamental music elements such as notes or musical
notation, the use of these notes as pitch as used in a master staff, application of rhythm or time,
note intervals, key signatures, music scales and music chords.

Rudiments of Music
The rudiments of music are the definitions used in the structure of music to allow you to create
then communicate that song to others. In the classical sense they are the parts of music theory
used to define melody and harmony.
EXAMPLES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

The woodwind family of instruments includes, from the highest sounding instruments to the
lowest, the piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, E-flat clarinet,
bassclarinet, bassoon and contrabassoon.

The most common percussion instruments in the orchestra include the timpani,

xylophone, cymbals, triangle, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, maracas, gongs, chimes,
celesta, and piano.
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air
in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are
also called labrosones, literally meaning "lip-vibrated instruments". 

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce
sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. 
ELEMENTS OF MUSIC

A melody, also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener
perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and
rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements
such as tonal color. 

Rhythm is music's pattern in time. Whatever other elements a given piece of music may have
(e.g., patterns in pitch or timbre), rhythm is the one indispensable element of all music. Rhythm
can exist without melody, as in the drumbeats of so-called primitive music, but melodycannot
exist without rhythm.
Harmony is the relation of notes to notes and chords to chords as they are played
simultaneously. Harmonic “patterns” are established from notes and chords in successive order.
Melodic intervals are those that are linear and occur in sequence, while harmonic intervals are
sounded at the same time.

Timbre is the characteristic quality of a sound (not counting pitch and loudness) which make it
unique. Texture is how the melody, rhythm and harmony are combined to create the overall
quality of a piece of music.
In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a
composition, thus determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.
 ASSIGNMENT IN MAPE
(FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC)

I. What is music?
II. Brief history of music.
III. Fundaments of music.
IV. Example of musical instruments.
V. Elements of music.

SUBMITTED BY:
ERICKA B. CASTILLO
BEED-III

February 21, 2020