UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

Formative assessment: Music appreciation and critiquing

Name: RINALYN A. ASUNCION
Course: BSCE
Section: 1D
Subject: GEC6 M – ART APPRECIATION
Subject Professor: MAJHALINA APUYAN
Semester: 2nd Semester
School Year: 2021-2022

Express an honest critique to the music in essay form.

1. Listen to the song of Sugar hiccup titled: Five years

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgXBdlkMFCg

2. My chemical Romance – Welcome to the black parade

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8

3. BTS - Butter
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMweEpGlu_U

 Does the song comprise the elements and principles of music?

 Is it made up of both sounds and silences?
 Is it intentionally made for art or to communicate?
 What does the song want to emphasize?
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SUGAR HICCUP SONG

1. The song comprise some of the elements and principles of music such as the sound, rhythm
and expression of the music.
2. Yes it is mainly made of sound and sometimes silences.
3. Probably yes and probably not because the music is more of a music that can be used as
background music for intense scenes that also conveys a hidden story behind it.
4. The song want to emphasize a dark side of a story because by the tempo and rhythm of the
song and also its expression gives out a sad emotion

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
1. Yes the song comprise elements of music like the sound, melody, structure and the
expression of music.
2. Yes it is made of sounds and sometimes there are mini silences in the music since it is very
energizing because of its structure.
3. Yes because the music was made to express love and the ups and downs of the said patient
in the hospital.
4. The song wants to emphasize the life events of the patient in the hospital especially his ups
and downs and also the infatuation that he had for the nurse with him inside the hospital.

BUTTER
1. Yes the song comprise song elements like sound, melody, harmony, the structure and the
expression of the song.
2. Yes it is made of sounds and there are some parts of it that gives silence to the listener of the
song
3. Yes because there is a meaningful story behind the song of the K group BTS
4. The song emphasize the softness of the group with their fans and to have a different
approach for their new song unlike the other that has a very hard story.