Topic 5: Contemporary Philippine Art

Question 1

This is the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds or both for produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

Answer 1

Music

Question 2

What are the two types of music?

Answer 2

Program Music and Absolute Music

Question 3

This is a type of music that attempts to musically render an extra-musical narrative.

Answer 3

Program Music

Question 4

This is a type of 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 to the outside world.

Answer 4

Absolute Music

Question 5

What is the other name for Absolute Music?

Answer 5

Pure Music

Question 6

What are the functions of music?

Answer 6

Worship, Emotional Expression, Music for strengthening nationalism, Validation of Social Institutions and Religious Rituals, Entertainment, Music collaborates with other arts, Contributes to the continuity and stability of culture, Physical response.

Question 7

Music can be used for worshipping the Almighty.

What function of music is this?

Answer 7

Worship

Question 8

Music releases our emotions. Music is used to pour out the emotion of people, no matter how we feel, there is always a corresponding music to fit on what we feel today.

Answer 8

Emotional Expression

Question 9

Music helps stir emotions by providing an avenue to help us express our deep love for one’s country by awakening our emotions to the real state of the nation, making music as an effective weapon for a non-violent action.

Answer 9

Music for strengthening nationalism.

Question 10

Many cultures of institutions have a song that embodies part of their individual culture-fight song.

Answer 10

Validation of Social Institutions and Religious Rituals

Question 11

Music is also used for entertainment and to kill boredom by giving us the joy of the listening experience when we hear it and respond.

Answer 11

Entertainment

Question 12

Music is also used to other sciences such as dances, mathematics, poetry, painting, language, and other related arts.

Answer 12

Music collaborates with other arts

Question 13

Music for exploring other culture.

Answer 13

Contributes to the continuity and stability of culture

Question 14

Listening to fast-paced, upbeat music helps runners to run at a quicker pace.

Answer 14

Physical response

Question 15

What are the two art forms of music?

Answer 15

Sound and Silence

Question 16

It refers to the relative highness or lowness of sound.

Answer 16

Pitch

Question 17

It refers to the loudness or softness of sound.

Answer 17

Intensity/Amplitude

Question 18

It refers to the length of line that the sound is heard.

Answer 18

Duration

Question 19

It refers to the unique quality of an instrument’s sound which enables us to differentiate one sound from another sound.

Answer 19

Timber/Tone Color

Question 20

Also associated with reverberation time, is the perception of how near or far away a sound’s source is.

Answer 20

Distance

Question 21

It refers to the hearing with two ears which means creates left/right, high/low, front/back qualities of first come/first heard by one ear or the other.

Answer 21

Direction

Question 22

This is a genre of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually characterized by slow tempo and flatted thirds and sevenths. This influenced the development of rock, rhythm and blues, and country music.

Answer 22

Blues

Question 23

This is a genre of music that originated in the West Indies and is characterized by humorous, improvised lyrics often on topical subjects. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of African slaves, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song.

Answer 23

Calypso

Question 24

This is a traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical tastes. Many styles of music exist within this genre of music, the most recognizable being the symphony, opera, choral work, chamber music, concerto, sonata, suite, etude, Gregorian chant, the madrigal and the Mass.

Answer 24

Classical

Question 25

This is a genre of popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith.

Answer 25

Contemporary Christian

Question 26

This is a genre of music, a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtics music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music evolved rapidly in the 1920s.

Answer 26

Country

Question 27

This is a genre of music, a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1070s, with exponents such as Yellowman and Shabba Ranks. It is also known as bashment. The style is characterized by deejay singing and toasting (or rapping) over raw and danceable music rhythms.

Answer 27

Dance Hall

Question 28

This is a genre of music that was popularized in dance clubs in the mid-1970s.

Answer 28

Disco

Question 29

This is a genre of music for the common people. It is music that originates among the common people of a nation or region and is spread about or passed down orally. It is characterized by simple melodies.

Answer 29

Folk

Question 30

This genre of music is heavily influenced by Latin American culture. It often features teen singers who cannot hold a note.

Answer 30

Freestyle

Question 31

This genre of music is an American musical style that originated in the mid to late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz, and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music.

Answer 31

Punk

Question 32

This genre of music is characterized by dominant vocals (often with a strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian.

Answer 32

Gospel

Question 33

This genre of music typically consists of a rhythmic, rhyming vocal style called rapping (also known as emceeing) over backing beats and scratching performed on a turntable by a DJ. This is the cultural context of rap music found in the urban style of dress, speech, and art.

Answer 33

Hip-Hop

Question 34

This genre of music is used to describe genres, scenes, subcultures, style and other cultural attributes in music, characterized by their independence from major commercial record labels and their autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

Answer 34

Indie

Question 35

This genre of music is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out of a confluence of African and European music tradition.

Answer 35

Jazz

Question 36

This genre of music is from Para, Brazil. The dance became internationally popular in the 1980s, especially in Latin America and Caribbean countries. It has adopted aspects of dances such as forro, salsa, merengue, maxixe and the carimbo.

Answer 36

Lambada

Question 37

This genre of music is most popular in urban areas in Cameroon. It is similar to soukous, except it includes strong bass rhythm and a prominent horn section. It originated from a type of Duala dance called kossa, with significant influences from jazz, embase bey, Latin music, highlife and rumba.

Answer 37

Makossa

Question 38

This genre of music is lively, joyful and dance that comes from the Dominican Republic.

Answer 38

Merengue

Question 39

This genre of music is an ambiguous category of pop or rock music from between the late 1970s to mid-1980s with ties to the original wave of punk rock. It is an emotionally detached style of rock music characterized by a synthesized sound and a repetitive beat incorporating aspects of an electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s pop music.

Answer 39

New Wave

Question 40

This genre of music is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on Top 40 music from the '50s, 60s, and 70's. _____ are typically from R&B, pop and rock music genres.

Answer 40

Oldies

Question 41

This genre of music is an ample and impressive category of modern music not defined by artistic considerations but its potential audience or prospective market. As a genre, this is very eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin, and country.

Answer 41

Pop

Question 42

This genre of music combines jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American Artists. Rhythm and blues remained emphasis on vocals while adding a more pronounced beat characteristics of the blues.

Answer 42

R&B

Question 43

This genre of music is a traditional form of Hindu music, consisting of a theme that expresses an expect of religious feeling and sets forth a tonal system on which variations are improvised within a framework of progressions, melodic formulas, and rhythmic patterns.

Answer 43

Raga

Question 44

This genre of music is the rhythmic singing delivery of rhymes and wordplay, one of the elements of hip-hop music and culture. _____ features spoken lyrics, often reflecting current social or political issues, over a background of sampled sounds or scratched records.

Answer 44

Rap

Question 45

This genre of music is of Jamaican origin having elements of Calypso, soul and rock and characterized by a strongly accentuated offbeat. Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank.

Answer 45

Reggae

Question 46

This genre is the most popular form of 20th century music. This is a combination of African-American rhythms, urban blues, folk, and country music of the rural South. It has developed since the early 1950s into hundreds of subgenres, each with its own audience, record labels and radio formats. ___ is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass.

Answer 46

Rock

Question 47

This genre of music is a family of music rhythms and dance styles that originated in Africa and were introduced to Cuba and the New World by African slaves.

Answer 47

Rumba

Question 48

This genre of music is diverse and predominantly, Spanish Caribbean genre that is popular across Latin America and Among Latinos abroad.

Answer 48

Salsa

Question 49

This genre is one of the most popular forms in Brazil. It is widely viewed as Brazil's national music style.

Answer 49

Samba

Question 50

This genre of music originated in Jamaica in the 1950s and was a precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of the Caribbean metro and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It was popularized in the early 1980s by British "black-and-white" multiracial bands that formed a lighter of the punk movement.

Answer 50

Ska

Question 51

This genre of music combines rhythm and blues and gospel music, originating in the United States.

Answer 51

Soul

Question 52

This genre of music originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay, it is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta tipica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons.

Answer 52

Tango

Question 53

This genre of music is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word _____, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988. Many style of this now exist; but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built.

Answer 53

Techno

Question 54

This is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s in Germany. It is characterized by a tempo of between 110 and 150 beats per minutes, repeating melodic phases, and a musical form that build up and down throughout a track.

Answer 54

Trance

Question 55

This is a particular kind of human singing voice perceived as having certain identifying qualities or characteristics.

Answer 55

Voice Type

Question 56

This is the process by which human voices are evaluated and are thereby designated into voice types.

Answer 56

Voice Classification

Question 57

What are the three types of female voices?

Answer 57

Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Contralto

Question 58

This voice type is the highest of female voices.

Answer 58

Soprano

Question 59

What are the different types of soprano voices?

Answer 59

Coloratura, Lyric, Dramatic, Wagnerian

Question 60

This soprano voice is noted for an upper extension of high notes as well as a light quality or color that allows the voice to perform rapid and highly ornamented passages.

Answer 60

Colaratura

Question 61

This soprano voice has a light, innocent quality. The role is often graceful, charming, and sentimental.

Answer 61

Lyric

Question 62

This soprano voice is the heaviest or most darkly colored vocal quality of the soprano types. They are often used for heroic, often long-suffering, tragic women of opera.

Answer 62

Dramatic

Question 63

This soprano voice has an exceptionally big voice that can assert itself over a large orchestra. These voices are substantial, often denser in tone, extremely powerful and, ideally, evenly balanced throughout the vocal registers.

Answer 63

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