Humanities_ Medium of Music: The Instrumental Medium

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.

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 String – 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.

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.

6. Plucked Strings Guitar Banjo Lute

7. Bowed 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.”

9. Woodwind Instruments Flute Oboe Clarinet

10. Brass Instruments Piccolo Trumpet Serpent Trumpet

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.

12. Percussion Instruments Pitched Unpitched Glockenspiel Xylophones Cymbals Maracas

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, and Electrophones .

14. Keyboard Instruments Accordion Piano Synthesizer Celesta

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