My very first reporting in college. The Instrumental Medium of Music. Art Appreciation/Humanities topic. With add on "The Ensemble Medium" with short descriptions.
P.S. I've added notes and reference links/books on the 'notes' section of the .pptx. Just download the presentation to see.
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Humanities_ Medium of Music: The Instrumental Medium
1. MEDIUM OF MUSIC:
THE INSTRUMENTAL MEDIUM
by P. A. Encina
University of the East, Manila
ZHU 111 – NCP 1
2. WHAT IS AN “INSTRUMENTAL”?
An
instrumental is a musical
composition or recording without lyrics
or vocals. With origins in tribal
music, instrumental music is now
associated with recorded music.*
Also known as „minus one,‟ „hybrids,‟
and „score.‟
Instrumental medium pertains to the
different instruments played by
musicians.**
3. MINUS ONE‟S, HYBRIDS, AND SCORES
Minus one‟s are musical compositions that were
originally recorded with vocals but later had the
vocals removed to become an instrumental work.
Hybrids are musical works that are all instrumental
works with brief vocals. (The Hustle, Tequila)
Scores, with the film score and sheet music as its
kind, are musical pieces that serves as
accompaniment; say, sheet music is used in operas
and live theatrical shows.
4. THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
– have strings which are either
plucked or bowed.
Wind – require wind to produce
sound, with brass and woodwind as
its types.
Percussion – are instruments beaten
or struck.
Keyboard – have keys which are
pressed to produce desired sounds.
String
5. THE STRING INSTRUMENTS
String instruments are musical instruments that produce
sound from vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs
classification, they are called chordophones.
Two classifications are bowed and plucked.
Bowing – method used in some string
instruments, including the violin, viola, cello, and the
double bass. The bow consists of a stick with many
hairs stretched between its ends and causes a stick-slip
phenomenon that makes the string vibrate.
Plucking – method used in playing string
instruments, such as the
banjo, ukulele, guitar, harp, lute, using a finger or a
plastic plectrum (pl. plectra) to pluck the strings.
8. THE WIND INSTRUMENTS
Wind instruments are musical instruments that contain a
resonator (usually tube) in which a column of air is set
into vibration by the player blowing into a mouthpiece.
Two classifications are brass and woodwind.
Woodwind instruments change their pitch by changing
where the air escapes. They use a wooden reed to form
the mouthpiece.
Brass instruments change their pitch by changing the
length of the tubing which the air passes through. They
do not having any moving parts that vibrate to produce
the sound, and they are also called
labrosones, meaning “lip-vibrated instruments.”
11. THE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
Percussion instruments are musical instruments
sounded by being struck or beaten.
Two classifications are pitched percussion and
unpitched percussion.
Pitched percussion have definite pitch, such as
xylophones and glockenspiels, while unpitched
percussion have indeterminate pitch and
maintained rhythm, such as cymbals and maracas.
Most drums, or membranophones belong under the
pitched category.
13. THE KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
Keyboard
instruments are musical
instruments played using a keyboard.
Keyboard instruments have categories that
fall under with the Hornbostel-Sachs
classification:
Chordophones, Aerophones, Idiophones, an
d Electrophones.
15. THE ENSEMBLE MEDIUM
Ensemble medium is produced when two or more
performers equally sing or play a piece of music.
16. ENSEMBLE MEDIA
Orchestra – any group of instrumentalists
Symphony Orchestra – large ensemble where all
types of principal instruments are involved.
Concerto – one sole instrument is dominant
Band – uses wind and percussion instruments
Rondalla – ensemble of stringed instruments
Chamber Orchestra – consists of small instrument
ensembles
Notes de l'éditeur
We hear this media of music almost every day—from grocery stores; when telephones are on hold; background music score in most television shows; karaoke machines; and backing music for speeches.*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental#Instrumentals_in_advertising**Introduction to the Humanities: A Holistic Approach by Jesus Z. Menoy, p. 145
-- Distinguishing features: Violins and violas are “under the chin”, whereas the cello and double bass are “from the rear”.-- Violins have the longest bow, and produces the highest pitch, the double bass otherwise.
-- Note: Not all woodwindinstruments are made of wood, and brass instruments are made of metal or brass.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_instrumentshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_instrumenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodwind_instrument
-- (L-R) Flute, Clarinet, Oboe-- Note: Flute is longer than an oboe and has no reed, while an oboe has two. In terms of structure, flutes are cylindrical while oboes are conical.Comparing oboes and clarinets, clarinets are longer and has only one reed.-- What is a reed? It is a very thin piece of wood or plastic attached to the mouthpiece and causes the instrument to produce sound.
-- (L) Piccolo, (U) Trumpet, (D) Serpent-- In spite of being made of brass, the saxophone is considered a woodwind instrument.