ART

APPRECIATION:
MUSIC
John Edcel Verdejo, LPT
MUSIC
• It is literally defined as the art of
organizing sound to elicit an aesthetic
response in a listener.
• Franz Liszt defines it as the language of
the heart
PROPERTIES OF
MUSIC
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PROPERTIES OF MUSIC
• Pitch – highness or lowness of tone
• Duration – Longness or shortness of tone
• Volume – loudness or softness of tone
• Timbre or tone color – individual quality
of the musical sound
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OF VOICES
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THE SIX CLASSES OF VOICES

• Coloratura Soprano – Highest female register
• Soprano – High register female voice
• Mezzo-soprano – medium register female voice
• Alto or Contralto – low register female voice
• Tenor – High register male voice
• Baritone – medium register male voice
• Bass – low register male voice
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ELEMENTS OF
MUSIC
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• Duration – refers to the continuance of time

wherein a sound can be made to last for a
longer or shorter period of time.
• Pitch – it means the location of tone in the
musical scale in relation to high or low.
• Melody – it consists of a series of pitches and
durations. It displays an overall balance
between ascending and descending motion
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• Harmony – It is simultaneous sounding of two

or more tones like when a singer accompanies
his melody with guitar or a piano.
• Timbre – it enables the listener to distinguish
one sound from another or one instrument
from another.
• Dynamics – it refers to force or percussive
effects: degrees of loud and soft. Forte means
loud; piano means soft.
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• Texture – refers to the number of tones we are asked

to comprehend simultaneously.
• Form – is also called structure which is necessary to a
work.
• Color – it is the result of the difference in timbre in
the various instruments and voices
• Style – it reflects the composer’s personal idiom
which differentiates his work from that of others; he
also reflects the style of the period in which he lives.
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