JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

LEARNING MODULES
IN
MUSIC

(GRADE 9)
SY 2024-2025

PREPARED BY:
ROBERT R. PONCE & JAINARICH F. GO
(MAPEH TEACHER)

MODULE 1
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Music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Period

CONTENT STANDARD:
At the end of this module, you are expected to:
1. listen perceptively to selected vocal and instrumental music of Medieval, Renaissance
and Baroque Periods.
2. relate Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music to its historical and cultural
background through dramatization.
3. explore other arts and media that portray Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque
elements.
LEARNING COMPETENCIES:
1. describes the musical the musical elements of selected vocal and instrumental music
of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Period
2. evaluates music and music performances using guided rubrics.

PERFORMANCE STANDARD:
You demonstrate understanding of the characteristics and features of the music of the
medieval, the renaissance and the baroque periods:
a) Chants;
b) Madrigals;
c) excerpts from oratorio;
d) chorales;
e) troubadour.

TOPIC 1.A:
SACRED MUSICAL STYLE OF THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
OBJECTIVE: Differentiate the types and characteristics of Gregorian Chant
INTRODUCTION:The first three periods of Western Music History are classified as Medieval,
Renaissance, and Baroque. Each period has its distinctive characteristics, historical and cultural
background.
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I. The Medieval period - It is also known as the Middle Ages or ―Dark Ages that started
with the fall of the Roman Empire. During this time, professional musicians were employed by
the Christian Church influenced Europe’s culture and political affairs.

*DISCUSSION:
 The Gregorian Chant
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong or plainchant, a form of
monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church. The Gregorian chant
had as its purpose the praise and service of God. The purity of the melodic lines fostered in the
listener a singular focus on divine, without humanistic distractions.
Gregorian chant developed mainly in the Frankish lands of western and central Europe during
the ninth and tenth centuries, with later additions and redactions. Although popular legend
credits Pope Gregory I (the Great) with inventing Gregorian chant, scholars believe that it arose
from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman and Gallican chant.

 Types and characteristics of Gregorian chant.

1. Gregorian chant is in Latin. In Roman empire is a huge of Christianity. The use of
Greek and Latin the earliest Christians are allowed to communicate and explain why the
church would adopt the Latin as its official language.
2. Gregorian chant is designed to evoke the mood of worship and religious reflection.
From the music appreciation standpoint, we should listen to them, we should appreciate
them because of the historical as seeing type of musical museum piece.
3. Gregorian chant is monophonic. Monophonic means a single note at a time. They
portray the unity of the church.
4. Gregorian chant doesn’t have metered rhythm. It implies that it gives the chant the
ethereal sound. Unlike the new music in the new generation that we are now using beat or
measures.

TOPIC 1.B: SECULAR MUSIC

OBJECTIVE: Use information about the famous composers during this period

INTRODUCTION: Towards the end of the Middle Ages, music began to spread outside the
church. Popular music, usually in the form of secular songs, came to existence.
Most of these songs were performed across Europe by groups of musicians called
Troubadours (a French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to
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13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.

DISCUSSION: Famous Composers Of The Period

1. Adam de la Halle.Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the

Hunchback) (1240–1287)[1] was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician. Adam's
literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis (poetic debates) in the
style of the trouvères; polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical
polyphony; and a musical play, "Jeu de Robin et Marion" (c. 1282–83), which is
considered the earliest surviving secular French play with music. He was a member of
the Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d'Arras.

TOPIC 2
MUSIC AND FAMOUS COMPOSERS OF THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
OBJECTIVES: Examine the characteristics and the vocal music of renaissance period.
INTRODUCTION: The term Renaissance‖ comes from the latin word renaitre which means
“rebirth, revival, and rediscovery. The Renaissance Period is a period of looking back to the
Golden Age of Greece and Rome.

DISCUSSION: Music Of The Renaissance Period

1. Characteristics of Renaissance Period
2. Vocal music of Renaissance Period
3. Five Main Sections Of Mass:
4. Composers of Renaissance Period
A. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
B. Thomas Morley

MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD

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OBJECTIVE: Classify the musical instrument of the Baroque Period

INTRODUCTION: Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental
performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and
oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres.

DISCUSSION: Music Of The Baroque Period

1. Characteristics of Baroque Music
2. The musical instruments during Baroque Period
3. Music Genres of Baroque Period

TOPIC 3.B
COMPOSERS OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD
OBJECTIVE: Classify information about the different composers of the Baroque Period
INTRODUCTION: The word Baroque is derived from the Portuguese word ―barroco”
which means ―pearl of irregular shape. Some of the great composers of this time were George
Friedrich Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, and Antonio Vivaldi, George
Friedrich Händel, and Laudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi

DISCUSSION: Composers Of The Baroque Period

1. Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 21, 1685, in what
is now Germany. He came from a family of musicians and was taught to play the
organ by his eldest brother. Soon after this, in his teenage years, he began to focus on
composing and performing keyboard and sacred music. Hundreds of his
compositions, such as his church cantatas, were created for a religious context; he
also composed an enormous amount of secular music, much of it purely instrumental.
2. Antonio Vivaldi. Born in Venice in 1678, Antonio Vivaldi is viewed as the master of
the Baroque instrumental concerto. His dynamic rhythms, fluid melodies, bright
instrumental effects, and extensions of instrumental technique were highly influential
on his contemporaries and successors.
3. George Friedrich Händel. George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel born Georg
Friedrich Händel (5 March 1685–14 April 1759) was a German-born, British Baroque
composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his
operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Born in a family indifferent to music,
Handel received critical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in
London (1712), and became a naturalized British subject in 1727. He was strongly
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influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German
polyphonic choral tradition.
4. Laudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi. Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May
1567 (baptized)–29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, singer and Roman
Catholic priest.Monteverdi’s work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the change
from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two
styles of composition—the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso
continuo technique of the Baroque. Monteverdi wrote one of the earliest
operas, L’Orfeo, a novel work that is the earliest surviving opera still regularly
performed. He is widely recognized as an inventive composer who enjoyed
considerable fame in his life-time.