Recreation Activity • Improves mood

• it is an activity that you voluntarily participate in during your free time. • Tones abdominal
Physically Active • Basic Zumba steps-salsa, samba, raggaeton, merengue, cumbia, cha-cha-cha, mambo rumba,
• Requires you to exert energy and burn calories flamenco,
Passive/Inactive Outdoor recreational Activities
• Recreational activity that does not need to exert extra effort and energy Hiking is going on an extended walk for the purpose of pleasure and exercise.
Indoor recreation • Offers cardiovascular fitness
• Recreational activities are usually played within a house or inside the building • Gives the feeling of relaxation
Outdoor recreation • Balances your daily life routine
• The activity is undertaken in a natural, rural, open space outside the confine of buildings • Good option for weight management activity
Note:
Essential tips for the outdoor
❖ There are recreational activities that can be played both indoor and outdoor
❖ Also it can be played individual/dual, team sports and dance. 1. Pick a partner 5. Choose your gear and your backpack
Importance of Active Recreation 2. Pick a destination 6. Pack and wear appropriate clothing
• Enjoyment 3. Know your time and distance 7. Plan your meals
• Satisfaction in oneself
4. Be physical ready 8. Keep communication lines open
• Makes the family members and friend’s relationship stronger
• It can also develops skills at the same time 5. Choose you gear and your backpack 9. Wilderness ethics
• Increases personal fitness
Indoor Recreational Activities
Badminton 10 Essential checklist for backpacks
• Originated from the game “poona” and was played by English Army officers in India during 17 th
1. Navigation 6. Fire
century.
2. Sun protection 7. Repair kit and tools
• Later brought to England in 1870 when Duke Beaufort.
3. Insulation 8. Nutrition
• 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
4. Illumination 9. Hydration
• Requires skills in service, strokes in hitting the shuttle such as smash, drop, lob or clear and net shorts.
5. First-aid supplies 10. Emergency shelter
• It can be played single, double or mixed doubles
Orienteering is an outdoor navigational recreational activity using special-ly drawn and detailed maps.
• 21 pts.
It requires navigational skills to navigate from point to point normally moving at a speed. It consists of a
Volleyball
series of control point which have to be located in order in the shortest possible time.
• William J. Morgan in 1895 at Holyoke Massachusetts
1. Conceptual aspects 4. Social aspects
• “mintonette”, exhibition game demonstration
2. Physical aspect 5. Environmental aspects
• “volleyball” due to volleying characteristics
3. Personal aspects
• 1910, brought to the Philippines by Elwood S. Brown, “Spike or Kill” Fundamental Skills is orienteering the map or setting the map.
• 1964, Summer Olympics as a medal sport • Find your approximate location on the map
• Teamsports, 6 players; ball, net and a court; 2 out o 3 sets; 25 pts. • Recognize the pattern of features
• Service, volleying, setting, spiking and blocking • Always hold the map so that you are looking along the route with the map matching the ground.
Benefits of sports
• The map is said to be oriented if the features on the map are in proper relation to the actual features
• Physical dimension on the field.
• Emotional dimension The Map is a picture representation of the earth’s surface. It includes a compass rose that shows directions.
• Intellectual dimension Cardinal directions (NSWE). It uses legend or key.
• Social dimension Orienteering compass is an invaluable tool that every backpacker should know how to use. It is a magnetized
Dance needle floating in a liquid and responding to the Earth’s magnetic field consequently revealing directions.
• Indoor alternative recreation who enjoy the beat of the rhythm and movement. Parts- Magnetic needle, Revolving compass housing, transparent base plate.
Zumba Fitness Dance
• Alternative indoor recreational activity with fitness benefit claims.
• Accidentally discovered by Alberto”Beto”Perez, celebrity fitness trainor in Colombia
• Improves cardiovascular health
• Helps in losing weight
• Relieves stress
Bearing refers to the directions from one spot to another measured in degrees from the reference line to the
north.
MUSIC
THE OPERA
The Opera provides the best opportunities for all aspects in the music of Romantic period to be combined into a
single form. Romantic operas can be characterized as extravagant spectacles with the tendency toward heroic
and epic subjects, supernaturalism, mystery, and passion. Dominated by the Italian style with its multiplicity of
closed forms, but in 19th century, Italy, France, and Germany continued to develop their own styles with special
qualities that were indigenous to each.
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. The opera is usually characterized by elaborate costumes, scenery, and
choreography.
COMPONENTS OF AN OPERA
1. Libretto - the text of an opera. Librettist and the composer work closely together to tell the story.
2. Score - the book that the composer and librettist put together. The score has all the musical notes, words, and
ideas to help the performers to tell the story. Often, there are operas with overtures, preludes, prologues, several
acts, finales, and postludes.
3. Recitative – Declamatory singing, used in the prose parts and dialogue of opera. Different roles in operas are
created considering different types of voices. Each role requires a different type of singer, not only able to sing a
given vocal range but also with certain voice characteristics, color, and power.
4. Aria – 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. Properly and well sung, a beautiful aria can bring an audience to its feet and
decide the fate of an entire opera
For the Male Voice:
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.
For the Female Voice:
1. Soprano- highest female voice.
2. Coloratura-highest soprano voice
Lyric-bright and full sound
Dramatic- darker full sound
3. Mezzo-Soprano most common female voice; strong middle voice, tone is darker or deeper than the soprano.
4. Contralto- lowest female voice and most unique among females.

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 arranges.
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