Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION I
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF CANDON CITY

9
Music 9

Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Improvising Accompaniment
for music of Medieval and
Renaissance Period

Prepared by:

RONALD N. LUCINA
TEACHER III

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What is this? Foreword

 This module is one of the learning modalities indicated in

the Learning Continuity Plan of DepEd to make learning

happen amidst the pandemic.

This module has cotents similar to the lessons delivered

by the teacher in an online platform. It is also congruent with the discussions of

the teacher via recorded lesson, and forms the same with the assessment

indicated in the learning activity sheets.

For clarity, it makes use of icons that indicate the parts of the module.

These icons mark the stage where the student is in when he makes use of this

module.

The students are advised to ask further questions from the teacher for

guidance and clearer understanding.

It is hoped that this module serves its purpose to ensure that learning still

takes place.

HAPPY Learning 

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 What to see? Parts and Icons used

Objectives: contains the melc

Guide Questions (Formative Assessment):

Questions that will be answered after the student
finishes the module are written here. An activity can also be
indicated here to assess what students know.

Discussion: The topic is presented here in the simplest manner

possible. The discussion must be aligned to the MELCs and must
point out details on how the formative assessment can be
answered.

Examples: Illustrative examples are indicated here to further

explain what is being discussed. At most three examples are
written here.

Exercises: Exercises arranged in order of difficulty are indicated

here. The exercises have 1 item/set each for easy, average,
challenging and enrichment.

Answer Key: This provides the key answers to the exercises

given. The format of the words are inverted

References: The references in Chicago format are listed, as

lifted
from DMOS.
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 Improvising Accompaniment
Lesson 2 for music of Medieval and
Renaissance Period

Objective:
* improvises appropriate accompaniment to selected music from
Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Period
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Guide Questions (Formative Assessment):

1. What is an accompaniment?
2. What are the musical instruments that can be used as
an accompaniment?
3. What are the music of medieval and renaissance
period
that can be accompanied by an accompaniment?

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 Improvising
Accompaniment for
music of Medieval and
Renaissance Period
Accompaniment
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Accompaniment is an instrumental or
vocal part designed to support or complement a melody. This means that it
would make the melody better or completes the whole music.

Musical Instruments for Accompaniment

There are lots of musical instrument that can be used to accompany a music.
These musical instruments classified according to their uses an how they made.
For this lesson, we will focus only on the instruments that are present and easy
to play.

 Guitar
A musical instrument that is held against the front of your body and that
has usually six strings which are played with your fingers or with a pick.
There are two types of guitar: Acoustic and electronic. Picture below is an
example of acoustic guitar.

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 Keyboard
A musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard like that of
piano and that produces sounds electronically.

 Ukulele
A musical instrument that is like a small guitar with four strings

 Drums
A percussion instrument consisting of hollow shell or cylinder with a
drumhead stretched over one or both ends that is beaten with the hands
or stick

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Improvise accompaniment for music of Medieval and Renaissance Period
A. Medieval Music
During the first weeks of our lesson, we have discussed the different
samples of music from medieval period. One of them is the Gregorian
chant, which is the most popular at that time. Also, during the first
lessons, you have already heard an example of Gregorian chant. Now,
we will listen again to an example of Gregorian chant. Listen the
sample here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5AohCMX0U

Aside from the Gregorian chant, there is also the secular music or non-
religious music. We have identified the composer Adam de la halle as
one of the famous composers that time. We will listen to one of his
works and then we will improvise accompaniment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNNm-wnfZ-U

B. Renaissance Music
The music of Renaissance period was classified into two vocal types:
mass and madrigal. Mass music is the religious form while madrigal is
the secular type. During this period, there were two famous
composers: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Thomas Morley.
The famous composition of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was the
Pope Marcellus Mass and for Thomas Morley was the Fire, Fire, My
Heart. Let’s listen to the composition of Thomas Morley here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzfKc6yh9Y

Click, Watch, and Learn!

At this point, we will watch an example of students making improvise
accompaniment for the music of Medieval and Renaissance period.
You need to watch and observe how these students created the accompaniment.
Watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFwgxInvs4

Now, for your performance task, you must create improvise accompaniment for
the composition of Thomas Morley, Fire, Fire, My Heart. You can use the
identified musical instruments for accompaniment or other type of
instrument/object that can create sound/music like empty bottles.

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 Rubric:
Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
Musicality Performs the music Most of the Some dynamics are No dynamics. No No
with appropriate dynamics are observed. Some use of presentation
dynamics and followed, and articulation is articulation. Most
phrasings most of the performed. Some phrases are
articulation signs phrases are performed
are observed. complete and incorrectly
Most phrases are musically accurate.
performed
correctly.
Accompaniment Correct use of Uses Tried to use an No No
accompaniment accompaniment accompaniment accompaniment presentation
used
Clarity The performance of Most of the piece Some parts of the The style and No
the piece is is performed using piece are performed interpretation of presentation
beautifully correct style and using both style and the piece is not
executed with both interpretation. interpretation. executed during
appropriate style performance.
and interpretation.
Rhythmic Confidently Most of the Some basic rhythms No
Accuracy performs all rhythms are are performed Most of the presentation
rhythms correctly. performed correctly; however, rhythms in
correctly, with few has challenges with musical score are
errors. some rhythms in performed
specific measures. incorrectly.

References
Badiola, Mary Grace J., et. al.
A Journey through Western Music and Arts – Grade 9
Music and Arts Learners Material
First Edition, 2014
ISBN: 978-971-9601-69-2

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