Question

What is the meter, melody, dynamics, tempo, texture of folk song BAHAY KUBO?

Answer 1

Timbre: The tone color of a sound resulting from the overtones. Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.”

Pitch: The frequency of the note’s vibration (note names C, D, E, etc.).

Amplitude: How loud or soft a sound is.

Duration: How long or short the sound is.

2. Melody

A succession of musical notes; a series of pitches often organized into phrases.

3. Harmony

The simultaneous, vertical combination of notes, usually forming chords.

4. Rhythm

The organization of music in time. Also closely related to meter.

5. Texture

The density (thickness or thinness) of layers of sounds, melodies, and rhythms in a piece: e.g., a complex orchestral composition will have more possibilities for dense textures than a song accompanied only by guitar or piano.

Most common types of texture:

Monophony: A single layer of sound; e.g.. a solo voice

Homophony: A melody with an accompaniment; e.g., a lead singer and a band; a singer and a guitar or piano accompaniment; etc.

Polyphony: Two or more independent voices; e.g., a round or fugue. Dynamics: Volume (amplitude)—how loud, soft, medium, gradually getting louder or softer (crescendo, decrescendo).

Tempo: Beats per minute; how fast, medium, or slow a piece of music is played or sung.

Answer 2

The meter, melody, dynamics, tempo, and texture of the folk song Bahay Kubo are given below.

• Felipe Padilla de Leon wrote the Tagalog folk song "Bahay kubo" from Luzon, Philippines.
• The metre of Bahay Kubo is a triple metre (3/4).
• The song, which is about the fruits and vegetables that grow around a small hut, has a tempo of 100 Beats Per Minute (BPM).
• The melody of this folk song is somewhat catchy and local.
• It has a medium level of dynamics that falls between fast-paced and slow-paced songs.
• Bahay Kubo is also known as a Nipa hut.
• This song is now a part of the educational curriculum of the Fipipino kids.

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