GENRES &

HISTORY OF MUSIC
 CONSIDERATIONS IN APPRECIATING MUSIC

• PURITY and HARMONY

This refers to the quality of voice, the wholeness of
voice that reduces vagueness. The clear, soft or mellifluous
voice are qualities faithful to the art of music. They are the
core part in the enjoyment of music. The absence of these
qualities the aesthetic side of music is dead.
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• RELAXING SOUND
Sound gives effects to the listeners, but not the same
effect. Pleasure of one may be discomfort to others.
“Relaxing effect is that music is continuous and
rhythmical…discontinuous sound demands more
attention”. (Nordic Journal of Music)
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• MESSAGE
“When a person creates sounds, he tends to search for a
message, or he expects that something about that person
can be inferred.” (Nordic Journal of Music) The same
situation in music. The sound of music has a message.
Music, like visual art, has communicative aspect. Our rule
as listeners of music is to find out the message.
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• FOLKSONGS
Folk music, music transmitted orally, usually with
modifications from generation to generation and from
place to place, so that its original form and composer are
forgotten. Much folk music exhibits melodic inflections,
rhythmic characteristics, or performing styles which link it
to a particular country or locality, but it is not unknown for
folk tunes to cross boundaries, and even seas.
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• OPERA
This is a combination of drama and music. It is a drama
because it is a story telling and it is done on stage. It is also
music because unlike the traditional drama, its dialogue is
being sung.
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• POP
Pop Music or Popular Music usually with audience of
young people was already well participated since the 50s.
Although this kind of song was conducted in a concert by
the Boston Symphony Orchestra, it is still and always
known and inaugurated by the rock n’ roll. It is popular in
the market so its category is pop.
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• RAP
This is a popular type of music which started in the
streets of New York among high school students. It looks
an incantation or a chant, but to describe it well, try to
listen to a destroyed turn table. Its sound is almost an
exact tune of a rap. It was in 1983 that the “It’s like that,”
by RUN D.M.C trio schoolmates from Borough of Queens
sold 500,000 copies.
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• ROCK
This is another type of popular music. It springs from
rock n’ roll that spread in Europe and America in the 1950s.
It developed with the use of electric guitar. It all started as
a song with a borrowed tuned from the blues. Blues is a
rock music developed by the American artists.
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• ENSEMBLE
This is a combination of different musical instruments with two or more
performers engaged in playing the instruments or singing a piece of music
called ensembles. Some kinds of ensembles are cited below:

• ORCHESTRA. This is the most valuable kind of ensemble production.

Several instruments of the same kind are usually given a part. Typically, 34
violins and a number of instruments belonging to brass, woodwind are
ensemble.
• SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Orchestra is designed as elaborate kind of
ensemble. At least 100 players are demanded. However, this varies
according to the need of instruments for a particular music. There are four
sections according to the instrumental groupings. Each of the section has
instrument for the four basic ranges namely; soprano, alto, tenor and bass.
 GENRES OF MUSIC
• ENSEMBLE
This is a combination of different musical instruments with two or more
performers engaged in playing the instruments or singing a piece of music
called ensembles. Some kinds of ensembles are cited below:

• CONCERTO. A written piece for one or more solo instruments and

orchestra in three movements.
• BAND. Like the orchestra, it is large but it mainly consists of wind and
percussion. Band is usually for outdoors musical rendition like parade
although it is used as concert ensemble.
• RONDALLA. The most popular musical group in the Philippines. It is
mainly composed of stringed instruments though it is also used piccolo.
 BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSIC

• BAROQUE (1600-1750)
 Baroque refers to highly decorated music and art.
 Unity – repeating rhythms and melodic patterns
 Sudden dynamic and tempo changes
 Music was ornamented and improvised
Beginning of the orchestra
Opera develops
Was written for and heard only by kings and nobility and the Church
Venice, Italy was the center of Baroque music
Harpsichord was more popular than the piano
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• FUGUE
famous during the Baroque Period
The subject is stated by the First Voice
The other voices then enter imitating the same subject, one
at a time
In a “fugue” only the beginning of the melody (the subject)
is imitated. Each new part continues with a idea of its own. All
parts of a fugue end at the same time.
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• CLASSICAL PERIOD (1750-1830)
The subject is stated by the First Voice
The Classical Period began around 1750 and lasted until 1830
This was when Benjamin Franklin was discovering electricity
This was also when the United States was being founded
Music was simpler to play than Baroque music
Music was written for everyone and common people started
attending concerts
There were no extremes in tempo, dynamics, etc. like in the
Baroque period
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• ROMANTIC PERIOD (1830-1900)

there was some overlap between the classical period and
romantic period
Composers used music to overwhelm listeners with
emotions, writing sad, sweeping pieces about love and
heartbreak and magical fantasies about goblins, witches, and
swans
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• MODERN PERIOD (1900-present)
Composers used music to overwhelm listeners with emotions, writing sad,
sweeping pieces about love and heartbreak and magical fantasies about
goblins, witches, and swans
-NEOCLASSICAL
-uses techniques from Baroque and Classical Period
-SERIALISM
-music has no tonal center and randomly uses all 12 notes of the scale in a row
-MINIMALISM
-uses small patterns to create effects
-ELECTRONIC
-uses tape loops, found sounds, recorded, then modified in computer
SOULMAKING
 WHAT IS SOULMAKING

The word 'making' in 'soul-making' comes out of the Greek word

poieo which means 'to be the author or maker of something’. In
philosophy, poiesis "the activity in which a person brings
something into being that did not exist before."
 WHAT IS SOULMAKING
Major Points:
1. An alternative venue for knowing ourselves and looking into the
depths and real meaning of what we are doing for everyday life.
2. Form of crafting stories or transforming brief moments into
images and symbols.
3. Connecting with people, understanding culture, and embodying
tolerance and peace.
4. Develop the artist in us, awakening the art in us that has been
stagnant or undeveloped for numerous years.
5. It opens door for multiple intelligences of expression.
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In order for people to make sense of the work, it would require
understanding the visual elements where art was grounded on,
especially the principles of design. It is important to note that the
audience of the artwork must have a certain level of awareness to
the style, form and content of the said work.

CATEGORIES OF SOULMAKING
1. Crafting images
2. Crafting stories
3. Crafting instrument's
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CRAFTING IMAGES
It's just like weaving quilting or doing crochet quilting or doing crochet it is not
creating works out of nothing if this Rooter in their own personal experience is
our personal and counters and events the triggered are reflection recall and
judgement.
CRAFTING INSTRUMENTS
Transforming any found or use object in a musical instrument allows one to
discover harmony and balance to produce a sound that is entertaining, handsome
and magical.
CRAFTING STORIES
The moment we write, we also engrave and inscribe our own thoughts, ideas,
commentaries, criticisms, and positive and negative emotions.