LESSON 1

• Instrumental Music


  Music of the Lowlands of Luzon
• Instrumental Music may not have words, but it does not necessarily mean that it cannot convey a particular message or evoke a certain emotion
• Music has the power to communicate, with or without language
• Classifications of Musical Instruments

  • Membranophone
  • Idiophone
  • Aerophone
  • Chordophone
  • Electrophone
• Membranophone


  Produces sound when a stretched skin (animal membrane) vibrates
• Membranophones


  • Instruments that produce sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane
  • This category includes most drums
• Idiophone


  Produces sound by the vibration of the instrument material itself through striking, hitting, scraping, rubbing, or shaking
• Idiophones


  • Produce sound from the substance of the instrument itself, without the need for strings, membranes, or columns of air
  • The vibration of the instrument as a whole, rather than a stretched skin or air column, is what generates the sound
• Aerophone


  Produces sound by means of air (winds)
• Aerophones


  • Produce sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, typically within a pipe or other chamber, without the use of strings or membranes
• Chordophone


  Produces sound through vibrations of strings
• Electrophone


  Generates sound electronically
• An electrophone is a musical instrument in which sound is primarily produced by electrical means
• Chordē


  String
• Phone


  Voice or sound
• The term "chordophone" is derived from the Greek words "chordē" meaning string and "phone" meaning voice or sound