Music

✓ Composers of the Vocal Music of the Romantic Period

Franz Peter Schubert
● Lieder
● tapped the poetry of writers like Johann Goethe.
● last classical composer and one of the first romantic ones.
● piano pieces, string quartets, operetta and the symphony no.8 in B minor
(Unfinished symphony)
● 31st of January 1797 in Himmelpfortgund, Austria and died in 1828 in Vienna,
Austria at age 31.

Giuseppe Verdi
● ordinary people and not those of the royal family like those found in German
operas.
● good libretto and wrote operas with political overtones and for middle-class
audience.
● first opera “Oberto”
● serious love story with unhappy ending
● 25 operas
● La Traviata
● He died in Milan, Italy on January 27,1901.

Giacomo Puccini
● poor family
● December 22, 1858, in Lucca, Italy
● studied at the Milan Conservatory.
● Realism
● “La Boheme”, “Tosca”, “Madame Butterfly”, and “Turandot”.

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

● born in Leipzig, Germany on May 22, 1813inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven.
● extremes of chromaticism
● limits of the traditional tonal system
● strong influence on the operatic medium
● music drama
● Leitmotifs
● “Tristan and Isolde”, “Die Walkyrie”, “Die Meistersinger”, “Tannhäuser”, and
“Parsifal”.
Georges Bizet”Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet”
● October 25, 1838, in Paris, France.
● entered the Paris Conservatory of music at a very young age.
● most famous opera is “Carmen”.
● criticized in horrible ways.
● first round of “Carmen” performances, Bizet died (June 3, 1875).He was only 36.

Vocal music
✓ Components of an Opera

is one of the best tools for expressing one's feelings. This form of expression became
more evident during the Romantic period. The Romantic Period's basic quality is
emotional subjectivity. Composers explore feelings of grandiosity, intimacy,
unpredictability, sadness, rapture, and longing.

Opera
✓ Components of an Opera

It is a musical composition having all or most of its text set to music with arias,
recitative, choruses, duets, trios, etc. sung to orchestral accompaniment and is usually
characterized by elaborate costumes, scenery and choreography.

Libretto
✓ Components of an Opera

The text of an opera.

SCORE
✓ Components of an Opera

The book that the composer and librettist put together. The score has all the musical
notes, words and ideas to help the performers tell the story.

RECITATIVE
✓ Components of an Opera
Declamatory singing, used in the prose parts and dialogue of opera.

ARIA
✓ Components of an Opera

An air or solo singing part sung by a principal character. This song is what the public
will remember best when leaving the opera house.

ACTS
✓ Components of an Opera

Main divisions of an opera.

SCENE
✓ Components of an Opera

Setting or place.

TYPES OF VOICE SINGERS

MALE SINGERS
✓ Voice Classifications

1. Tenor - highest male voice

2. Baritone - Middle male voice, lies between Bass and Tenor voices. It is the common
male voice.
3. Bass-lowest male voice

FEMALE SINGERS
✓ Voice Classifications

1. Soprano - highest female voice.

2. Coloratura - highest soprano voice.
3. Lyric-bright and full sound.
4. Dramatic - darker full sound.
5. Mezzo-Soprano - most common female voice; strong middle voice, tone is darker or
deeper than the soprano. (Range is A3 to A5 in piano).
6. Contralto - lowest female voice and most unique among female.

Dynamics and vocal embellishments

✓ Voice Classifications

➤A capella - one or more singers performing without instrumental accompaniment.

➤ Cantabile - In a singing style.
➤Capo - Head, the beginning.
➤Coda - closing section appended to a movement or song.
➤ Dolce - sweetly.
➤Falsetto - a weaker and more airy voice usually in the higher pitch ranges.
➤ Glissando - sliding quickly between 2 notes.
➤Passagio - parts of a singing voice where register transitions occur.
➤Rubato - slight speeding up or slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion
of the soloist.
➤Tessitura - the most comfortable singing range of a singer.
➤ Vibrato - rapidly repeated slight pitch variation during a sustained note, to give a
richer & more varied sound.

Opera
✓ Components of an Opera

It is a musical composition having all or most of its text set to music with arias,
recitative, choruses, duets, trios, etc. sung to orchestral accompaniment and is usually
characterized by elaborate costumes, scenery and choreography.

What makes opera music of the Romantic period?

✓ Components of an Opera

● extended melodies,
● broader ranges of tone,
● pitch, and
● tempo
● more sophisticated harmonies.
 ● Chromatic harmonies were making greater use of semitones and unusual chord
progressions.

ARTS
Theater means “place of seeing,”

Greek Theater (700 BCE-410CE

It began around 700 BC with festivals honoring their gods. Dionysus (Di-on-i-sus), the
god of wine and fertility, has religious festivals called “The Cult of Dionysus” to honor
him.
✓ Different Genres (Comedy, Tragedy, Satyr)

● Tragedy
● Comedy
● Satyr

✓ Parts of Theater
Theatron (theater building)
● orchestra,
● the skene
● the audience.

✓ Roman Theater
Roman Theater
● 3rd century BC.
● chariots races, gladiators, and public executions.
● combat and admired blood sports and gladiator
● Violence
● Christians however opposed the barbaric themes, closed down all theaters.
● Comedy were popular too 350 to 250 BC

✓ Neo-classical Theater
Neoclassical Theater
● Grandiosity
 ● highly detailed
● to entertain and to teach lessons.
● tragedy and comedy (never mix these two together)
● Tragedy (the upper classes and royals)
● comedy (lower ranks)

✓ Zarzuela/ Sarswela
SEVERINO R. REYES
● Father of Tagalog Zarzuela
● one of the giants of Tagalog Literature.
● 1923 Liwaywa (Tagalog literary)
● "Mga kwento ni lola Basyang"
● "WALANG SUGAT" masterpiece (cruel fate love of Tenyong and Julia)

✓ Famous Filipino Playwrights

FRANCISCO BALAGTAS Y DE LA CRUZ / Francisco Baltazar.
● "Florante at Laura"
● learned how to write poetry from Jose de la Cruz / Huseng Sisiw
Dr. RICARDO G. ABAD
● actor/director
● 120
● Companies: Teatro Pilipino, Tanghalang Pilipino of the CCP, Metropolitan
Theater.
● Aliw Award for Best Director (The Death of Memory)
● "Sintang Dalisay"
● It's April, What Are We Doing Here".
SALVADOR F. BERNAL
● father of theater design
● first to develop theater design as a profession
● 250 productions in ballet, theater, and film.
● National Artist award for theater design (highest award given in the country)
PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• Lifestyle - Way you live your life in daily basis

• Recreation - VOLUNTARY participation, unobligated.
• Active Recreation - Purpose is enjoyment (Long-term goals)

2 TYPES OF ACTIVE RECREATION:

1) Indoor Recreation - INSIDE home or building
2) Outdoor Recreation - OUTSIDE, open space.

• INDOOR:
- Badminton (Originated from 'POONA', BIRD)
- Volleyball (6 players, 9×18 meters, “mintonette”)
- Dance
- Zumba - Alberto “Beto” Perez

• OUTDOOR:
- Hiking
- Orienteering - MAP

HEALTH
• Intentional Injuries- injuries resulting from violence
• Self-Inflicted - Person harms HIM/HERSELF on purpose
• Assault - Person harms ANOTHER on purpose
[SELF INFLICTED INJURIES]
• Suicide - Intentional taking of one's own life
• Parasuicide - Suicide ATTEMPT, person doesn't intend to die.

[ASSAULT]
• Domestic Violence - act includes physical assault (pushing, hitting, shoving), sexual
abuse and verbal abuse.
• Bullying - Aggressive behavior, REPEATED over time
• Stalking - Someone repeatedly contacts you.
• Extortion - Using threat/force when asking for money/favor
• Gang - Street-based group
• Kidnapping - Taking away forcefully
• Terrorism - for political goals