Module 8
Module 8
Module 8
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MODULE 8
TOPIC – MUSIC
INTRODUCTION
Music is essential to many of our lives. We listen to it when waking up, while in transit, at work,
and with our friends. For many, music is like a constant companion. It can bring us joy and
motivate us, accompany us through difficult times, and alleviate our worries.
Music is much more than mere entertainment. It has been a feature of every known human
society—anthropologists and sociologists have yet to find a single culture throughout the course
of human history that has not had music. In fact, many evolutionary psychologists today make
the argument that music predated language. Primitive tribes and religious practices have used
music to reach enlightened states for thousands of years, and Pythagoras used music to heal
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different psychological and physical ailments. Currently, cutting-edge scientific research has
shown the effect that music has on the brain, the individual, and society.
Not only does music reach us on intellectual, social, and emotional levels, but many describe it
as spiritual or mystical. The use of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic devices in music can induce
a psychological state in both the musicians and the listener that is beyond words to describe.
Music can bring us back to ourselves, be our mirror, and show us a side of ourselves that we
may have long forgotten or never knew existed.
Even though we are constantly exposed to music in our daily lives, we rarely stop to actually
think about what it is. After all, what exactly is music?
Fundamentally, music is a combination of sounds, and sound is vibration. One of the most
succinct definitions of music comes from the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni, who said,
“Music is sonorous air.” It's extraordinary to think that a simple vibration unseen by the human
eye can facilitate a deeply rich emotional experience, alter perception and consciousness, and
induce ecstatic states of being. What is the process by which these sonic vibratory frequencies
are heard by the listener, creating a profound psychological experience for them? How does
something as fleeting as "sonorous air" have such a healing and therapeutic effect on people?
And how does it facilitate personal growth?
OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students are expected to:
PRE-TEST
Song Analysis. Listen to any of these songs (pick only one for the activity). 1. Liability by Lorde
2. High Hopes by Panic! At the Disco 3. Maskara by Eraserheads. You can listen any of these
songs on Youtube, Spotify and other music streaming platforms then answer the ff. questions:
1. What song can you relate most and why did you choose it?
2. What type of music is it (blues, classical, folk, jazz, military, patriotic, rap, religious, rock, etc.)
3. How do you feel this song connects with your generation?
4. What is the singer’s style? How does that style affect the feeling or mood of the song?
5. What do you think the creator might have wanted the audience to think or feel?
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LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Assigned Reading/text
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SELF-EVALUATION
5. If you are given the opportunity to join a song contest, what theme (focus) of the song would
you like to develop? Why?
REVIEW OF CONCEPTS
Dissonance – an interval/chord that lacks in harmony and therefore sounds harsh and
discordant. It can sometimes occur before resolving itself with a harmonious chord/interval
Dynamics – expressing the loudness, softness and different levels of intensity of a music piece.
Indicated through symbols in a piece of music specifying volume
Flat – a symbol indicating the key is diminished by a half a tone (semitone)
Forte – a symbol indicating to play loud
Glissando – sliding between notes, particularly popular on a piano, especially during
improvisations
Harmony – an ear-pleasing combination of at least two notes played simultaneously. This also
refers to chord progressions
Homophony – a piece of music written to be sung or played in unison
Impromptu – mainly an improvisational, short piece of music
Interval – the distance between two notes
Key – scale of notes/tonality named after the key (1st) note
Key signature – flats/sharps at the beginning of the piece indicating the tonality and key it is
written in
Legato – a musical articulation technique that indicates the notes are played or sung smoothly,
evenly and connected. On a piano this can also be achieved by some help from the sustain
pedal
Libretto – a book of text with words of an opera
Maestro – refers to a particularly outstanding musician
Major – a tonality that has a positive, uplifting character
March – a piece of music written in marching two-step time. Originally used for military events
Measure – this is a music theory term referring to space of time decided by amount of beats in
the time signature
Metronome – a metronome is used to keep and develop a sense of time for musicians. A
metronome can be set to any tempo and some can be set to also play smaller measures of the
bar such as 8th notes, 16th notes etc
Mezzo – stands for ‘inbetween’, for example mezzo soprano range is between soprano and alto
or mezzo forte would be louder than piano but not quite as loud as forte and so on
Minor – the opposite of major tonalities, minors have a more sombre and darker character
Moderato – moderate
Motif – leading or primary melody that is developed further in a piece of music
Musicology – study of many forms, methods and history of music
Natural – a symbol in sheet music that returns a note to its original pitch after it has been
altered by flats or sharps
Notation – developed in 8th century, refers to different methods of writing/scoring music
Octave – begins and ends with a keynote and incorporates 8 full tones (Latin ‘octa’ = eight)
Opera – a musical drama where lines are sung rather than spoken
Ostinato – repeated phrase
Phrase – a musical sentence
Piano – and indicator in sheet music to play softly, quietly
Pitch – a frequency determining how high or low a note sounds
Poco – a little
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POST-TEST
Song Composition. Compose a song depicting the life of the students. Compositions can be in
English, Tagalog, or any Filipino language/dialect.
Criteria:
REFERENCES
Ramos, Arnulfo B. (2018). Art Appreciation for the New General Education Curriculum. First
Edition. 65 Arellano St., Davao City: SMKC Printshoppe
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-music/201608/what-is-music-exactly/
https://www.normans.co.uk/blog/2014/04/musical-terms-glossary-general/
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