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Tarlac State University

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Written Report

Module 8: Soul Making (Soul, Sound, Structure)

SUBMITTED BY:
Manlapaz, Althea M. (Leader)
Esquivel, Shiela Mae C.
Fabicon, Mark Joseph P.
Fabro, Marc Isaac N.
Feliciano, Joe Marie M.
Fernandez, Cyrus O.
Galeon, Jeffrey V.
Gengania, Deelan Wensley Paolo L.
Gonzales, Vien Joefry S.
Lim, Paul D.

BSIT-TSM-1A

SUBMITTED TO:
Mr. Justine Red M. Versola
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction 3
2 Learning Objectives 3
3 Content 4
4 Reference 10

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I. Introduction

This written report discusses about how soulmaking is necessary for us to realize
and embrace one’s truth, history, and understanding of our existence. Its connection to
classical sound, and different eras under to it. And how Soulmaking plays a major role
in art-production in a form of crafting stories, transforming brief moments into images,
symbols that connect with people, understanding culture and embodying tolerance,
peace, and imagination.

II. Learning Objectives

At the end of this report, the learners should be able to:

1. Discuss the concept of Soulmaking.

2. Explain the important role of soulmaking in creating an artwork.
3. Identify and differentiate the categories of soulmaking.
4. Define what is classical sound.
5. Identify the different Era under Classical sound.
6. Discuss the different characteristic of each Era.
7. Differentiate the type of music under Medieval Era, Renaissance Era, Baroque
Era, and Classical Era.
8. Outline of the history or classical structure
9. Identify the characteristics of classical architecture

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III. Content

As Dr. Norman Narciso, one of the leading Filipino thought leaders in the art world,
deeply explains soulmaking, “Soulmaking is an alternate place to know oneself and to
look at the depths and meaning of what we do in our daily lives.” Soulmaking is a step
towards a deeper comprehension of how the world is perceived and how his or her own
personality is seen.

SOULMAKING

 The word 'making' in 'soul-making' comes out of the Greek word ‘poieo’ which
means 'to be the author or maker of something’. In philosophy, ‘poiesis’ "the
activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before "
 It involves both the personal (deepest being), and the impersonal (intelligent
forces). It transforms raw experience into an ever-deepening personality and a
rich way of living (Thomas Moore).
 Soulmaking can be innate gift or a learned skill, or a combination of both.
 It does not require a professional artist or artisan to be involved.
 It has no time reference, it occurs anytime.
 It occurs where there is engagement among the person, time, and space.

The Role of Soulmaking in Art

Soulmaking is an activity of:

 Knowing oneself better
 Understanding life’s depth and essence
 Evaluating what oneself does
 Learning from everyday experience

SOUL – Emotional or Intellectual Energy or Intensity, Especially as Revealed in a work

of Art or an Artistic Performance

CLASSICAL SOUL – Classic soul is a radio format focusing on soul music from the
1950s-1970s, occasionally venturing into the 1980s.

GENRES
 1950s Rhythm and blues- artists such as Fats Domino and Ray Charles
 Motown-artists such as The Temptations and The Supremes
 1960s soul music artists such as Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett
 Funk- artists such as Kool and the Gang and Parliament Funkadelic
 disco - artists such as Earth, Wind and Fire and Donna Summer
 1970s soul music artists such as Al Green and Barry White

Categories of Soul Making

Crafting Images - Crafting images include the production, by various forms and
methods, of visual representations of images. Any art form such as drawing, sketching,
and sculpting can be used to perform this process. Dancing, poetry (or black-out
poetry), musical instrument playing, and even filmmaking may also do this.

Crafting Stories - He or she is already creating stories when an individual writes down
his or her own personal feedback, life values, deep feelings, ideas, ideals, and even
high and low emotions. Similar to crafting images, he or she may be portrayed by
different means when one craft story is presented. Stories can be relayed via vivid
photos, calming music, and impactful sentences.

Crafting Instruments - Crafting instruments are treated as "a bridge to the unknown
because the instrument creates sounds that exceed our thoughts, emotions, and
sensations. The soul is accompanied by a vessel so that the soul will not disappear."
Instruments help people explore the magic behind music and its unique impact on a

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person. Such musical instruments can establish the soul's harmonious sustenance and
the mind's balance.

Crafting Movements - Life is movement, according to Dr. Narciso (2016). [One's] life is
full of different rhythms. "Our life is full of movements, it is full of different rhythms, life is
full of flowing images accompanied by narratives, and this melodic flow symbolizes how
the universe gives every human being the ability in their respective lives to experience
the highs and lows." For artists who are more inclined to crafting movement, the pattern
that life serves a person provides a source of inspiration.
Crafting Techniques - Crafting techniques in soulmaking are the artist's reflection of
his life and experiences in any piece of art. The approach, preferably, should be
methodological. A soul maker, though, when he executes his creative expression, is
unbounded.

5 Phases of Soul Making

1. Seeking - The first step is seeking or finding. At this point, we recognize that each of
us who are interested in our own growth and the way of our world is a 'seeker. We
are looking for a discipline or method that can help us live in and make sense of the
world and heal the wounds of 'self.'

The best thing about searching is that it is a vital stage in our growth as soul
builders. It gives us the tools to live our lives, and if we systematically look, we find
that in some integral sense, these tools and practices can be fitted together, allowing
us to settle down, moving us on to a practice or cluster of practices that satisfy our
creativity and passion, and that we can then spend time perfecting

2. Settling - Soul making is about communicating as profoundly as possible with the

soul, with other human and non-human beings (and this means the future of humans
and non-humans) and with the world. If we are perpetually wondering, we cannot do
this. We must find ourselves settled at some point in our lives.

3. Surrender - If it is permitted to surrender, with all its pain and vulnerability,

something magical will happen. We tend to note amid the crashing that our activities
begin to be in the service of the soul. The capacity to surrender, of course, is
restricted by the amount of pain and uncertainty that we can bear! True surrender
takes us up and throws us down: calls for the wounds we bear to be accepted,
forces us to spend time living in the darkness.

4. Soulmaking - At some point in the variations between the Setting and Surrender
dual polarities, we begin to perceive our practice and life in the universe as Soul
Making. We are beginning to become an expert, an injured healer. We're starting to
grow up enough to feed our girls, our children, our children. We accept that there's
no way to ever get it right.

Soul Making is the fourth stage, in which the individual transitions from a stage of
improving reflective practice to becoming a practitioner of soul making However, this
is still not to be completely settled in, since it holds all the strengths and
disadvantages of the previous levels. Both of us must keep looking. Throughout life,
we all settle and re-settle. We would all be met with the psyche 's appeal for
submission, repeatedly. And it will constantly call upon our capacity to care and
nurture (others and the world)

5. Soaring - When we begin the journey, what we most wish is to soar. To conquer our
worldly experience's material realities-to travel. It will not happen, however, if we
only want to fly, nor can the psychological version of a spaceship or airplane be
created by ourselves. What may be true is that we could find ourselves soaring,
together, engulfed in the air and sky, by enabling ourselves to pass through the
stages of Soul Making.

Classical Sound

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 Classical music is art music produce or rooted in the tradition of Western culture,
including both liturgical (religious) and secular music. While a more precise term also
used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the classical period), this article is about
the broad span of time from before the 6 th century AD to the present day, which includes
the Classical period and virous other periods. The central norms of tradition became
confident between 1650 and 1900, which is known as the common practice period.
The major time division of western art music are follows
 Ancient music period, before 500 ADS
 Early music period, which includes
o Medieval era (500-1420) including
 Ars Antiqua (1170-1310)
 Ars nova (1310-1377)
 Ars subtalar (1360-1420)
o Renaissance era (1400-1600)
 Common-practice period includes
o Baroque era (1600-1750)
o Classical era (1750-1820)
Medieval era
The medieval era includes music from after the fall of Rome to about 1400. Monophonic
chant, also called plainsong or Gregorian chant, was the Dominant from until about
1100. Catholic monks develop the first forms of modern European musical nation in
order to standardize liturgy throughout the world-wide church. Polyphonic (multi-voiced)
music developed from monophonic chant throughout the late Middle Ages and into the
renaissance, including the more complex voicing of motets.
Ars Antiqua
Ars Antiqua, also called Ars vet rum or Ars vetus, is a term used by modern scholars to
refer to the Medieval music of Europe during the High Middle Ages, between
approximately 1170 and 1310. This covers the period of the Notre-Dame school of
polyphony (the use of multiple, simultaneous, independent melodic lines), and the
subsequent years which saw the early development of the motet, a highly varied choral
musical composition. Usually, the term Ars Antiqua is restricted to sacred (church) or
polyphonic music, excluding the secular (non-religious) monophonic songs of the
troubadours, and trouvères. However, sometimes the term Ars Antiqua is used more
loosely to mean all European music of the thirteenth century, and from slightly before.
The term Ars Antiqua is used in opposition to Ars nova (meaning "new art", "new
technique" or "new style"), which refers to the period of musical activity between
approximately
Ars nova

Ars nova refers to a musical style which flourished in France and the Burgundian Low
Countries in the Late Middle Ages: more particularly, in the period between the
preparation of the Roman de Fauve (1310s) and the death of composer Guillaume de
Machaut in 1377. The term is sometimes used more generally to refer to all European
polyphonic music of the fourteenth century. For instance, "Italian ars nova" is
sometimes used to denote the music of Francesco Landini and his compatriots
(although Trecento music is the more common term for 14th-century music in Italy). The
"ars" in "ars nova" can be read as "technique", or "style"

Ars subtilior

Ars subtilior is a musical style characterized by rhythmic and notational complexity,

centered on Paris, Avignon in southern France, and also in northern Spain at the end of
the fourteenth century. The style also is found in the French Cypriot repertory. Often the
term is used in contrast with ars nova, which applies to the musical style of the
preceding period from about 1310 to about 1370; though some scholars prefer to
consider ars subtilior a subcategory of the earlier style.

Renaissance era
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The renaissance era was from 1400 to 1600. It was characterized by greater use of
instrumentation, multiple interweaving melodic lines, and the use of the first bass
instruments. Social dancing became more widespread, so musical forms appropriate to
accompanying dance began to standardize. It is in the time that the notation of music on
a staff and other elements of musical notation began to take shape. This invention
made possible the separation of composition of a piece of music from its transmission;
without written music, transmission was oral, and subject to change every time it was
transmitted. With a musical score, a work of music could be performed without
composer’s presence. The invention of movable-type printing press in the 15 th century
had far-reaching consequences on the preservation and transmission of music.
Baroque Era
Baroque music characterized by the use of complex tonal counterpoint and the
use of basso continuo, a continuous bass line. Music became more complex in
comparison with the simple song off all previous periods. The beginning of the sonata
form took shape on the canzona, as did a more formalized notion of theme and
variations. The tonalities of major and minor as means for managing dissonance and
chromaticism in music took full shape
During the Baroque era, keyboard music played on the harpsichord and pipe
organ became increasingly popular, and the violin family of stringed instruments took
the form generally seen today. Opera as a staged musical and dramatic forms, and
vocal forms like cantata and oratorio became more common. Vocalists for the first time
began adding extra notes to the music, Vocal developments in the Baroque era
included the development of opera types such as opera seria and opera comique, and
related forms such as oratorios and cantatas
Classical Era

Though the term “classical music” includes all Western art music from Medieval era to
the 2000s, the Classical Era was the period of Western art music from the 1750s to the
early 1820s -the era of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig van
Beethoven.

The Classical era established many of the norms of composition, presentation, and
style, and was also when the piano became the predominant keyboard instrument. The
basic forces required for an orchestra became somewhat standardized (although the
following centuries). Chamber music grew to include ensembles with as many as 8 to
10 performers for serenades. Opera continued to develop, with regional styles in Italy,
and German-speaking lands

The opera buffa, a form of comic opera, rose in popularity. The symphony came into its
own as a musical form, and the concerto was developed as a vehicle for displays of
virtuoso playing skill. Orchestras no longer required a harpsichord (which had been part
of the traditional continuo in the Baroque style). And were often led by the lead violinist
(now called the concertmaster).
Major composers of this period include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van
Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Johann Christian Bach, Luigi
Boccherini, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Muzio Clementi Antonio Salieri, and Johann
Nepomuk Hummel.

Classical Structure

Classical architecture usually defined architecture that is more or less consciously

derived from the concepts of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or in
some cases, from the works of the Roman architect Vitruvius.

Classical architecture is a kind of structure that originated in ancient Greece and Rome.
Architects have drawn inspiration from these civilizations for centuries, incorporating
ancient principles into succeeding architectural forms.
In a broad sense, Classical architecture pertains to all structures produced by the
ancient Greeks and Romans. For our purposes, the Classical Revival movement is the
most true-to-form kind of classical architecture that exists today.

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History of Classical Structure

Architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially from the 5th century BCE in

Greece to the 3rd century CE in Rome, that emphasized the column and pediment.
Greek architecture was based chiefly on the post-and-beam system, with columns
carrying the load. Timber construction was superseded by construction in marble and
stone. The column, a unit human in scale, was used as a module for all of a temple’s
proportions. The Doric order, probably the earliest, remained the favorite of the Greek
mainland and western colonies. The Ionic order developed in eastern Greece on the
mainland; it was used chiefly for smaller temples and interiors. Both Doric and Ionic
order are present in the Athens Acropolis, the greatest Greek architectural achievement.
By the late 5th century BCE, the orders were applied to such structures
as stoas and theatres.

Characteristics of Classical Structure

Classical building in ancient Greek and Roman time were typically built from marble or
some other attractive, durable stone, but since then, they have also been built in brick,
concrete and stone. The architecture was primarily trabeated (post and beam) and
evolved from timber origins.

Greek architecture followed a highly structured system of proportions that related

individual architectural components to the whole building. This system was developed
according to three basic styles, or ‘orders’ – Doric, Ionic and Corinthian – that formed
the heart of classical Greek architecture. The romans also used these widely but added
two of their own orders: Tuscan and Composite.

Concepts such as intellect, humility, and boldness were highly sought after by the
architects of Classical buildings. These concepts would help to define certain key
components that are detectable in several styles of Classicism architecture.

3 Characteristics of Classical Architecture

Other general elements of the classical period of architecture include:
1. Symmetry and proportions: Classical architecture followed the philosophy that
all the elements of a structure should have mathematically perfect proportions
and harmonious symmetry.
2. Facades and pediments: The front facade of a structure prominently feature
columns and ornamentation, and the upper portion might have a triangular, arch-
shaped structure called pediments that are sometimes decorated.
3. Building materials: Classical structures are built with sturdy and durable
materials, such as stone, brick, marble, and concrete.
Origins of Classical Architecture

Caryatids on Erechtheion, (Athens). The Erechtheion was another structure built to

facilitate the religious rituals held in the ancient temple. Construction of the Erechtheion
began and finished around 406 B.C. six long Ionic columns line the temple's entrance,
which faces east. The temple's north and west walls drop sharply to almost double the
level of the front and south sides. The temple has two porches, one in the northwest
corner supported by tall Ionic columns and the other in the southwest corner supported
by six gigantic female sculptures known as the Caryatids.

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The fronts of ancient Roman temples like the Maison Carrie in Nimes have inspired
much later classical architecture, e.g., Virginia State Capitol. The so-called Maison
Carrie or square house is an ancient Roman temple located in Nimes in southern
France. Nimes was founded as a Roman colony (Colonia Nemausus) during the first
century B.C.E. The Maison Carrie is an extremely well preserved ancient Roman
building and represents a nearly textbook example of a Roman temple as described by
the architectural writer Vitruvius.

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