Learning Activity Sheet

MUSIC-10

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TOPIC: Impressionism: 20TH Century Musical Style

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EXPLORE

See the pictures of organ, mp4 player, cellphone, speakers, synthesizer, leaves,
sticks, woods, iron, stones, plastic materials.
Wildly guess to what are the essential benefits of these things in music?
Write your answer in a ½ sheet of paper.
 L E A R N

Styles New Musical

Electronic Music
The capacity of electronic machines such as synthesizers, amplifiers, tape
recorders, and loud speakers to create different sounds was put to creative use by 20 th
century composers like Edgard Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Mario Davidovsky.
Music that uses the tape recorder is called musique concrete, concrete
music. The composer records different sounds that are heard in the environment such as
the bustle of traffic, the sound of the wind, the barking of dogs, the strumming of as
guitar, or the cry of an infant. These sounds are arranged by the composers in different
ways, for example, by playing the tape recorder in its fastest mode or in reverse. In
musique concrete, the composer is able to experiment with different sounds that cannot
be produced by regular musical instruments such as piano, or the violin. And the
composers is Edgard Varese.

Edgard Varese was born on December 22, 1883. He was considered an

“innovative French-born composer”. However, he spent the greater part of his life and
career in the United States, where he pioneered and created new sounds that bordered
between music and noise.
The musical composition of Varese are characterized by an emphasis on timbre
and rhythm. He invented the term “organized sounds”, which means that certain timbre
and rhythm can be group together in order to capture a whole new definition of sounds.
Varese use of new instruments and electronic resources earned him the title
“Father of Electronic music”. Also describe as “The Stratospheric Colossus of Sounds”
his musical composition total around 50, with his advances in tape-based sound
providing revolutionary during his time. He died on November 6, 1965.
Chance Music
These refers to a style in which the piece sounds different at every
performance because of the random techniques of production, including the use of ring
modulators or natural elements that become a part of the music. Most of the sounds
emanate from the surroundings, both natural and man-made, such as honking cars,
rustling leaves, blowing winds, dripping water, or a ringing phone. As such, the
combination of external sounds cannot be duplicated as each happens by chance.

John Cage was known as one of the 20th century composers with the widest
array of sounds in his work. He was born in Los Angeles, California, USA on September 5,
1912 and became one of the most original composers in the history of Western music. In
one instance, Cage created a “prepared” piano, where screws and pieces of wood or paper
were inserted between the piano string to produce different percussive possibilities. He
has musical composition total around 229. He died in New York on August 12, 1992.
 Give an example of a musical instruments used by Varese,
Stockhausen, and Cage. Write your answers in the table below.

Composers Material used in making the sounds

ENGAGE

Edgard Varese

John Cage

Create/produce sounds or music using your body parts. Write your experienced in
doing the sample activities in a ½ sheet of paper.
Example:
Armpit palm chest face tongue/mouth feet/thigh

APPLY
Applying the Electronic or Chance Music students will perform and create music using t

Direction: Identify properly the correct answer.

1. The music that uses the tape recorder is __________?

2. What is called of John Cage music, where screws and pieces of wood or paper were
inserted between the piano string to produce different percussive possibilities.

3. Why does Varese earned the title of being the “Father of Electronic Music?

4. Varese was also considered as ________________?

5. How many musical compositions did John Cage made?

References:

CURRICULUM GUIDE in Music and Art 10

HORIZONS in Music and Art 10 TG pp.14-20
HORIZONS in Music and Art 10 LM pp. 26-32

ROSARIO B. KITANE/DONALYN A. GILLO

MAPEH Teacher