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Genres & History of Music
Genres & History of Music
Genres & History of Music
HISTORY OF MUSIC
CONSIDERATIONS IN APPRECIATING MUSIC
• 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)
CONSIDERATIONS IN APPRECIATING MUSIC
• 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.
GENRES OF MUSIC
• 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.
GENRES OF MUSIC
• 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.
GENRES OF MUSIC
• 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.
GENRES OF MUSIC
• 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.
GENRES OF MUSIC
• 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.
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:
• 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
BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSIC
• 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.
BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSIC
• 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
BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSIC
CATEGORIES OF SOULMAKING
1. Crafting images
2. Crafting stories
3. Crafting instrument's
SOULMAKING
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.