music

• Music


  The art of combining vocal and instrumental sounds or both to produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion
• Music


  An art form whose media are sound and silence
• Music tells stories, breaks hearts, reduces us to tears or seduces us into falling in love, over and over again
• Two Main Types of Music

  • Program Music
  • Absolute Music
• Program Music


  A type of art music that attempts to musically render an extra musical narrative
• Absolute Music


  Music that is not explicitly "about" anything; in contrast to program music, it is non-representational and is primarily intended to be appreciated without any particular reference from the outside world
• Functions of Music


  • Worship
  • Emotional Expression
  • Strengthening Nationalism
  • Validations of Social Institutions and Religious Rituals
  • Entertainment
  • Collaborates with other arts
  • Contributes to the continuity and stability of culture
  • Physical Response
• Sound


  Produced by vibrations
• Vibrations


  Can be regular and irregular. Regular vibrations create pleasing sounds or tone. Irregular vibrations create unpleasing sound and is usually considered as noise
• Silence


  The absence of sound or noise
• Music Genres


  • Classical
  • Hip-hop
  • Oldies
  • Pop
  • Rhythm and Blues
  • Reggae
• Singing Voice Types (Male)

  • Tenor
  • Baritone
  • Bass
• Singing Voice Types (Female)

  • Soprano
  • Mezzo-Soprano
  • Alto
• Musical Instrument Types


  • Stringed Instruments
  • Woodwinds
  • Brass Instruments
  • Percussion Instruments

  
• A musical instrument is any device for producing a musical sound
• Voice classification is the process by which human voices are evaluated and are thereby designated into voice types
• Stringed instruments are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings
• Woodwinds are a type of musical instrument that you play by blowing into its mouthpiece
• Brass instruments are musical wind instruments made of brass metal or with a cup-shaped mouthpiece
• Percussion instruments are any instrument that makes a sound when it is hit, shaken, or scraped

  
• The reference for this study material is Contemporary Philippine Arts From the Region