MEMBERS: ABARRONDO, BOQUIREN, & GREGORIO

MUSIC • A common language of mankind.

• A collection of coordinated
Greek word: "mousike" - the art of Muse.
sounds.
• Process of putting sounds and
tones in an order, combining
them to create a unified
composition.
• People who make music
creatively organize sound for a
desired result.
 MUSIC
• Made of sounds, vibrations, and
silent moments.

Each kind of music has

To a scientist,
its own rules that speaks to us in
it is the
its own way. To a musician, it's the
system of relationship between the
vibrations ear and the instrument or
voice.
COMING OF AGE/GROWING UP
The singer tends to tell a story about his/her
development as he/she grows old.

STATEMENTS OF DISCONTENT
Expression of frustration with a political situation, or
with someone in that singer's life.

FRIENDSHIP
Audience can connect since it talks about being able to
help each other through struggles or being an effective
friend.
HEARTBREAK
Dealing about loss or failure about love.

DEATH
An artist go through losing loved ones too, which
makes this one of the most popular themes.

LOVE
IIt talks about everything about love; being in love
or having euphoria because of someone.
ENTERTAINMEN
T people who are not overly interested in
• One of the parts of the industry that

listening to music will still get engaged

in, because of the visuals, tv screen and
live performance.

• Being involved with these will also

have a social benefit to the members of
the public.
COMMUNICATIO
N There are lots of examples of
•
communication within music in
the society.

• There are many encouraging

song which is motivational to
people who is listening to it.
RELIGIOUS
• Music and religion are closely linked in
relationships as complex, diverse, and
difficult to define.
• Religious believers have heard music as
the voices of gods and the cacophony
of devils.
• With equal enthusiasm they have
promoted its use in worship and sought
to eradicate it from both religious and
secular life.
CULT OF
• Today, the majority of artists rank
CELEBRITY
popularity, fashion and money above the
importance of their music.
• Everyday, more and more artists are getting
discovered and welcomed into the music
business.
• To get their music out there, undiscovered
artists will promote themselves via the
internet, through friends and family,
through street busking and some will even
apply to go on televised shows.
MUSIC & POLITICS
• The connection between music and politics,
particularly political expression in song, has
been seen in many cultures.
• Although music influences political
movements and rituals, it is not clear how or
to what extent general audiences relate to
music on a political level.
• Music can express anti-establishment or
protest themes, including anti war songs, but
pro-establishment ideas are also represented.
PERFORMING ARTS
• Music can be performed
using a variety of
instruments and styles and is
divided into genres.
• As an art form, music can
occur in live or recorded
formats, and can be planned
or improvised.
CEREMONIES
• Music takes an important role in most of
the ceremonies, it is used to convey the
feelings through the music played.
• It always assure a nice, joyful, and elegant
background during a wedding ceremony.
• The music played during a funeral also has
a great importance in assuring sad, sorrow,
and the low spirits of the relatives and the
people around them.
DANCE MUSIC
• It is the music composed specifically to
facilitate or accompany dancing.
• It can be either a whole musical piece or
part of a larger musical arrangement.
• In terms of performance, the major
categories are live dance and recorded
dance music.
 MUSIC MEDIA
STOCK MUSIC, PRODUCTION MUSIC OR LIBRARY
MUSIC
 • It is written for
enhancing a product
MUSIC MEDIA or production.

• It isn't written
It is used for a vast number of media uses. Everything specifically for direct
from "hold music" to the top Hollywood blockbusters sale to public.
use music media.
BLUES
• Developed in the 19th century
• Originally played by a single performer singing with
a guitar or banjo
• Had evolved significantly along with new
instruments used
• 12 bar blues chord structure

CLASSICAL
• Most orchestral styles between 1750 and 1820
• A reaction to the rules and restrictions prevalent in
baroque music which predates it.
COUNTRY
• Has its roots in the south of the USA
• Evolved from a combination of different fold styles
• There are numerous sub-genres like country pop,
country rock, and neo-country

DANCE
• More modern genre categorized as electronic music
• Combined with the evolution of pop music,
electronic dance music took off in the late 1980’s
and early 90’s
FOLK
• A very traditional genre
• Orally passed down over time
• Storytelling is a key aspect of folk music

JAZZ
• Started in New Orleans in the early 1900’s
• Has musical flexibility not seen in other genres
• Has a huge range of potential instrumental structures
and setups
KPOP
• Initially categorized as a brand rather than a type of
music
• It borrows a variety of forms, including pop,
electronic music, rap, R&B and even classical music

POP
• an ever-evolving genre that encompasses any music
that is designed for the masses
• Anything played on mainstream radio can be categorized as pop
RAP
• Describes a style of vocal delivery
• Incorporates increasingly complex rhyme schemes
and has been appreciated in the same regard as
poetry

RHYTHM & BLUES (R&B)

• Originated in African American communities in the
1940s
• It was popularized in the 1950s
• In the 1970s the term was used to describe soul and
funk
REGGAE
• Fusion of traditional Jamaican folk music with jazz
and R&B
• It is linked to Rastafarianism and Afrocentric
religion
• Offbeat rhythms and staccato chords

GENRE CROSSOVER
• Musical genres in the modern era are subjective and
fluid
• The lines became so blurred
• Crosses boundaries to broaden your appeal
 • The series of coordinated pitches that form the
main line of a tune.
• It is the linear/horizontal presentation of pitch.
• Many famous musical compositions have a
memorable melody or theme.
• Theme is a melody that is the basis for an

MELOD
extended musical work
• Derived from various scales to more unusual
ones or unique scale systems devised in other
cultures around the world.

Y
Conjunct - smooth; easy to sing or play. Disjunct -
ragged; difficult to sing or play.
 • It is the verticalization of pitch.
• It is often thought of as the art of combining
pitches into chords.
• These chords are usually arranged into chord
progressions.
• It is often described in terms of its relative
harshness as:
⚬ Dissonance – a harsh-sounding harmonic

HARMON combination.
⚬ Consonance – a smooth-sounding harmonic
combination.
• Dissonant chords produce musical "tension"

Y which is often "released" by resolving to

consonant chords
 • Modality – created out of the
ancient Medieval/Renaissance
modes.

• Tonality – focuses on a “home”

key center.

HARMON • Atonality – avoids any sense of

a home key center.

Y
 • It is the repeated patterns of movement in sound.
• It involves specific units of sound arranged as beats.
• Aspects of rhythm:
⚬ Duration - how long a sound or silence lasts
⚬ Tempo - speed of the beat
⚬ Meter - beats organized into recognizable/ recurring

RHYTHM
ancient pattern
• Other terms:
⚬ Syncopation – an “off-the-beat” accent.
⚬ Ritardando – it slows down the tempo.
⚬ Accelerando – it speeds up the tempo.
⚬ Rubato – freely and expressively making subtle
changes in the tempo.
 • All musical aspects relating to the relative loudness or
quietness of music.
• Dynamic Levels:
⚬ Pianissimo (pp) – very quiet
⚬ Piano (p) – quiet
⚬ Mezzo-piano (mp) – moderately quiet
⚬ Mezzo-forte (mf) – moderately loud

DYNAMIC ⚬ Forte (f) – loud

⚬ Fortissimo (ff) – very loud
• Other terms:

S
⚬ Crescendo – gradually getting louder.
⚬ Diminuendo or decrescendo – gradually getting quieter.
⚬ Accent – punching or leaning into a note harder to
temporarily emphasize it.
 • Each musical instrument or voice
produces its own characteristic pattern of
“overtones,” which gives it a unique
"tone color" or timbre.

TONE COLOR
• A variety of timbres can also be created
by combining instruments and/or voices.
 • Monophonic - only one note sounding at a
time.
• Homophonic – Two or more notes sounding
at the same time, often based on homogenous
chords.

TEXTURE
• Polyphonic - Two or more independent
melodies sounding at the same time.
⚬ Canon and Fugue – it may introduce
three or more independent melodies
simultaneously.
• Imitative – Imitation is a special type of
polyphonic texture produced whenever a
• It refers to the number of individual musical lines musical idea is ECHOED from "voice" to
(melodies) and the relationship these lines have to "voice".
one another.
 Letters are used to designate musical divisions brought about
by the repetition of melodic material for the presentation of
new and contrasting material.

• Strophic – A design in vocal music, the same

music is used for several different verses of words.
MUSICA • Through-composed – A structure with no repeat
or return of any large-scale musical section.

L FORM • Binary – A two-part form, both main sections are

repeated.
• Temporary – A three-part form a return of the
initial music after a contrasting section.
EXAMPLES OF PHILIPPINE
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC