music as an art

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What is music?

It is an art that deals with sound.

Just like the visual arts and literature, musicrepresents ones culture and it is primarily one

of the ways of expressing ones thoughts,

beliefs and ideas.


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Indigenous

Classical

Pop

Rock

Standard


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Properties of Musical Sound

Properties Definition

Pitch It refers to the highness or lowness of tone.

Duration The property of sound that depends on the

length of time over which vibration is maintained.

Volume It is the force or percussive effects as a result ofwhich the tone strikes us as being loud or soft.

Timbre or tonecolor

It is the individual quality of the sound producedby other instruments.


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Mediums of Music

Mediums Definition/ Characteristic

Vocal Medium It refers to the human voice which is consideredas the oldest and still the most popular form ofall instruments.

It is the most personal and direct of allinstruments as it comes from within the body.The song projected by the human voice is alsothe most natural form of music.

Instrumental

Medium

It refers to musical instruments that are used in

producing sound.

The 3 main types of musical instruments are: those which are bowed (strings) those which are blown (brasses andwoodwinds) those which are struck (percussion


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The String Instruments

The string instruments, also called stringed instruments,provide the basic orchestral sounds.

They produce tones by means of the vibration of a stretchedstring.

The two main types of string instruments are

Bowed strings (produce tones by means of a bow of horsehairdrawn across the strings and by means of plucking the strings)

Plucked strings (produce tones solely by plucking the strings withyour fingers or with a plectrum)


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Examples of bowed strings

Violin It is the highest

member of the stringsection of theorchestra.

It is universallyadmired for its voice-like quality.

It is also capable ofbrilliance and dramaticeffect thus making itpreeminent in lyric

melody.
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Viola It is slightly larger

than the violin.

Its strings arelonger, thicker andheavier; it is lower inrange.

It is used more forharmony than formelody.


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Violoncello (cello) It is much longer than

the viola.

It is lower in range thanthe viola and the stringsare thicker and heavierthan those of the viola.

Its bow is shorter and

heavier and theinstrument has to beheld between the kneeof a seated performer.


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Double bass(contrabass)

It is the largestmember of the string

family.

It rests upon the floorand the performer

stands to play it.

It is the lowest inrange of the stringgroup.


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Example of plucked strings

The Guitar Family This seems to be the

most popular stringedinstrument.

It varies considerablyin shape and in thenumber of strings, butbasically, it consists ofa finger board withfretsattached to alight wooden bodywith flat top and back.


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The Woodwind Instruments

The woodwind instruments consist of members offour different families:

Flute and piccolo

Oboe and English horn

Clarinet and bass clarinet

Bassoon and contrabassoon

These instruments are blown by the player. Thepitch of the notes are altered by shortening orlengthening the column of air vibrating inside theinstrument.


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Examples of woodwindinstruments Flute

The first instrument ofthe woodwinds in theorder of ceremonies

and a has a naturesomewhat distinctfrom that of otherinstruments of thesection.

It is a cylindrical tubemade of a silver alloyor metal. Its sound is

liquid and cool.


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Piccolo

It is a smaller flutewhich produces the

highest notes in theorchestra.

The tones produces

are piercing andshrill.


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Oboe It is made of wood.

The body is a tubewhich gets wider atthe end.

Because of such, thetone is focused andintense in all registers.

The instrument isassociated withpastoral effects andwith nostalgicmelodies.


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English horn

It is a large oboe.The oboe and the

English horn lookvery much alikeexcept that theEnglish horn is wider

and longer and endsin a pear-shapedbell, which accountsfor its soft, mournful

timbre.


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Clarinet

It is the instrumentthat often takes the

part of the violin inband music.

It has a remarkably

wide rangefromlow to high and fromsoft to loud.


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Bassoon andcontrabassoon These are the tenor

and the bass,respectively, of theoboe family.

Their tone isweighty, thick, andintense. They cancreate a humorouseffect.


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Saxophone It has a single reed

that combines thereed mouthpiece ofa clarinet with acurved conical metaltube.

It blends well witheither the woodwindinstruments or thebrasses.


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The Woodwind Instruments

Bassoon Contrabassoon Saxophone

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