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.
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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
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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
Banjo
Guitar
Lute

7. BOWED STRINGS

8. THE WIND INSTRUMENTS
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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
Clarinet
Oboe
Flute

10. BRASS INSTRUMENTS
Trumpet
Piccolo Trumpet
Serpent

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.
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12. PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
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Pitched
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Unpitched
Glockenspiel
Cymbals
Xylophones
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, an
d Electrophones.

14. KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
Piano
Accordion
Celesta
Synthesizer

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
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