MUSIC

Other Musical Style

• During the 20th century, composers became
increasingly influenced by the music, history, and
culture of their native country.

• Aside from impressionism and expressionism,

other musical styles such as the primitivism and
neoclassicism were emerged and incorporated in
the works of the 20th century composers.
PRIMITIVISM
• Is a combination of two simple ideas that developed
into a new idea , new image, and new sound.
• Exoticism-It is in connection with the use of materials
from other cultures.
• Nationalism- the use of indigenous materials in a
specific country.
• Ethnicism-the use of materials from European ethnic
groups.
• It is the use of musical elements that are
simple, well-defined, and clear.

• Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok are

two composers associated with
primitivism.
 BELA
BARTOK
• He was regarded as one of the most influential
modern composers of the 20 century.
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• He was a teacher, pianist, and ethnomusicologist

noted for Hungarian flavour of his major musical
works such as orchestral works, string quartets,
piano solos, stage works, cantata, and folk songs
for voice and piano.
• He was born on March 25, 1881 in Hungary
from a family that reflected some of the ethno-
cultural diversities.
• He started his piano lessons with her mother at
age five and started to compose small dance
pieces at age nine.
• After two years, he played some of his
compositions in public for the first time.
• 1899 to 1903, he went to the Royal Academy in
Music in Budapest to study piano and
composition.

• His discovery of Richard Strauss’ music

stimulated his eagerness to compose.

• 1903-he completed his first major symphonic

work, Kossuth.
• 1908- he and Zoltan Kodaly, who he met at the
academy, travelled around the countryside to
collect and research old folk melodies.

• Aside form Strauss and Kodaly, he also admired

the musical styles of Liszt, Debussy and
Stravinsky.
 Zoltan Kodaly
• is a Hungarian composer,
ethnomusicologist,
pedagogue, linguist and
philosopher.
• He is well known
Internationally as the creator of
the Kodaly method of music
education.
Kodaly Method Solfa-Syllables

• Do
• uses folk song, Curwen hand
• Re
signs, picture, movable do,
• Mi
rhythm symbols and
• Fa
syllables.
• Sol
• La
• hand signal that used symbols
• Ti
to teach solfa-syllables.
• Do
 
• In 1940, Bartok and his family left Hungary and
migrated to the United states where he worked as a
researched assistant at Columbia University, New
York City.
• During his stay in US, his health began to deteriorate
which later prevented him from teaching, lecturing, or
performing.
• On September 26, 1945, Bela Bartok passed away at
the age of 64 in New York, USA.
 Masterpieces of Bela Bartok:
• Piano Sonata (1926) • String Quartets 5 (1934)
• First Piano Concerto • Music for Strings,
(1926) Percussion, and Celesta
• Cantata Profana (1930) (1936)
• Second Piano Concerto • Sonata for Two Pianos and
(1931) Percussion (1937)
• Mikrokosmos (1931- • Second Violin Concerto
1939) (1938)
• String Quartet 6 (1939)
Performance Tasks:
Directions: Create a group with 8 members. Using the
Kodaly Hand Signal, demonstrate the proper hand signal of
the sol-fa syllables. Create a choreography which showcasing
your creativity. Send your video in our group chant.
Deadline: (Next week, October 05, 2022 until 4:00 pm)

Rubrics:
Choreography: 15%
Proper hand signals: 15%
Performance Tasks: (Home-Based)
Deadline: Wednesday (Next week- October 5,
2022)

Directions: In group of three (3), perform a musical

play based on Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.
Be creative in your costumes and choreography. You
will be guided on the rubrics on page 18.
ARTS
SURREALISM
• The word “Surrealist” was
used by. a playwright named
GUILLAUME
APOLLINAIRE.
• He wrote a preface to his 1903
play performed in 1917. His
scenic backdrops and set
designs were considered dream-
like and irrational.
• It is from the use of this term that artists
converged around a movement called
Surrealism.

• In the field of the sciences and academic

circles, Sigmund Freud’s theory of the
unconscious gained momentum.
• Andre Breton- a writer who
worked in a neurological
hospital, observed the
experiments of soldier
suffering from post-traumatic
stress form war.
• He became one of the leading
figures of Surrealism and
published an essay in 1928.
 Salvador Dali
• He painted the Persistence of
Memory, a barren landscape
with distorted shapes that
appear like melting rocks.

• The painting alludes to the

tentativeness of memory and
the elusiveness of rationality.
 GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
• Was one of the artists allied with
the Surrealists.

• La Rouge of The Red Tower

shows a dream-like barren
landscape with a massive tower
arising out of nowhere.
La Rouge of The Red Tower

• There are no human figures

in the scene.

• The quiet and barren

vastness appear desolate and
the tower appears
mysterious.
INFLEUNCE
IN THE
PHILIPPINE
CONTEXT
ANG KIUKOK

• The Crucifixion-
underscores pain and
suffering.

• In his paintings, the corpus of

Christ and the cross are often
distorted and the figures
unnaturally colored.
CRUCIFIXION
 Onib Olmedo
• His painting depicted a protest against social inequities
often show distorted human figures. The stylistic
characteristics of their works are similar to those of the
Expressionists.

• These artist were associated with the Neorealist movement

in the Philippines.
• The movement does not prefer a single style
but is a broad term used for artists exploring
new ways of figuration.

• Their works were initially seen in a series of

exhibitions hosted by the Philippine Art
Gallery in the 1960’s.
 SOME PAINTERS WHO HAVE DEPLOYED
SURREALIST IMAGERY IN THEIR WORKS
1.Charlie Co 2. Rishab Tibon 3. Mariano
Ching
Performance Tasks: (Home-Based)
Deadline: Wednesday (Next week- October 5, 2022)

Directions: In ¼ illustration board, paste one painting of the

three Expressionists and two Surrealists. Choose paintings not
included in this book. Arrange the paintings in order, according
to the most realistic to the most-artificial looking. Write the
titles of the paintings and the artists. Compare each artwork.
You will be guided based on the rubrics on page 108.
Performance Tasks: (Home-Based)
Deadline: Wednesday (Next week- October 5,
2022)

Directions: Using the painting techniques of

expressionist and surrealist, create your own artwork
depicting the characteristics of expressionism
movement.