Northphil G. Cadag 9-Avogadro Chosen Music: Edward Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt, Op. 46 Activity One • • This music makes me feel tense, anxious, suspenseful, and frantic. What aspects or elements of the music helped you determine the piece’s mood? Musical Device Rhythm/Tempo How fast or slow is the music played? Is the beat regular or irregular? Dynamics/Pitch How loud or soft is the music played? Are the notes high or low? Instrumental Choice What type of instruments does the composer choose to use? Sound Does the music sound pretty (euphonious), or is it harsh and ugly (cacophonous)? How does this device help you determine the piece’s emotional effect? The musical piece has a combination of moderately slow and lively fast tempo split half in the whole general length of the play causing a moderately irregular beat which contribute to rising suspense. This Edward Grieg’s composition’s ranges were observed to be from modestly (or considerably even lower) soft laddering to forcefully loud sound with its notes hitting middle level generally throughout the piece. The music was (strongly) probably comprised by instruments such as cello, bass drum, violin, cymbals, French horn, trumpet, and bassoon as choices used that mix altogether into emotional components they make as they are each played. When listening to Grieg’s musical piece, it makes out pleasant to the ear such that the harmony of different instruments’ sounds in the music is incredibly managed to be clear and that makes getting into the mood relatively easy. Activity 2 • Elements Physical Setting Time of the Day/Year Description of the element from my scene In the vicinity of an underground-based human Martian Colony Settlement, Pavonis Mons, Tharsis Region, Mars 03:00 Philippine Standard Time (PHST) October 7, 2127 or ~ 04:16* (Martian-Equivalent Counterpart to Earth’s UTC), Sol (Martian Day) 473, Martian Year 92. *(with a ±𝟎. 𝟕~𝟏𝟐. 𝟎𝟎 Martian hour margin of error) Character Descriptions Actions – What are my characters doing? Rakesh Khan – A 35-Earth-year-old Indian descent, he is a metallurgical and geological engineer. Nathan Olsen – 54 Earth-years old Danish native, he is a theoretical physicist for Martian aerospace. The supporting characters/bodies – Not to be named, but they are 6,000 in population and included on maintaining the whole colony in Mars that happens to be mostly middletier workers, some are of white-collar jobs like Rakesh and Nathan. The people, in terms of Earth ethnicity is internationally oriented – mostly Americans, Chinese, Indians, Norwegians, Danish, Canadians and with small minorities of Indonesians, Filipinos, Nigerian and South Koreans. Rakesh Khan – In the perceived space beneath and onground soil, he is the one who researches for any relevant resources to be used for many structural necessities in their community, particularly, metals and sand for houses and machineries. Nathan Olsen – One of the settlers in said colony, he is assigned in the headquarters to mathematically give mathematical forecasts of any objects’ movements such as meteoroids, satellites, and space cargo freight from either Moon or Earth in the Martian aerospace that needs to be very seriously undertaken. • Walking up into the Martian Ground Zero (Surface Level), Rakesh is delving again this sol (Martian Day 473) for the search of magnesium ores and granite in the surrounding abundance of volcanic and mineral rocks ready for his colony’s R&D. However, the moderate vastness of Pavonis Mons as a large “geo-mouth” or “caldera” (but a more dormant one) is quite intimidating so he is assigning a coordinate with a scope of 250 meters radius. He then starts to venture into the find when he feels something, something a bit of horribly frightening “gut-feeling”. It’s as if his mind is having its role as Nostradamus for having clairvoyance on bad future occurrences and feels it’s something far away but is approaching the proximity of him of just a few couple of kilometers away like 7 km. But after all, he then settles in for a conclusion of all these thoughts running through him is a paranoia. Nonetheless, this move to mediate his suddenly panicky emotions is only temporary. So, here comes Nathan whose databasedominated room underground is seeing strange, something for him is not so surprising (though with a little shock) as report from many space organizations from Moon and Earth that are also scared of this but are far away to even help Martian people. So, what he sees is a 700-meter-wide asteroid that is still far away from Mars – that is somewhere 36,250 km in distance. With this, Nathan is now at fright mode now and is disseminating the fact to the whole colony settlement that summoned each one self’s survival pursuit. However, Rakesh is uninformed of this event, unprepared of something astronomically catastrophic that he continues to find the necessary minerals for his daily-based mission. 5,200 km above the planet, the asteroid is now raging to the thin atmosphere that is only 7 km on height and with unfortunately low atmospheric pressure, causing the asteroid to not blazingly heat up as when compared to Earth’s counterpart scenario, but that only increases its speed and thus, the fatalities soon to happen. Fortunately, now, Rakesh anticipates it and as his fears driven up from deep within, he tried all his best to get away even from the shockwave of collision few dozens of seconds before all or nothing will judge the ending of the characters. The suspense is escalating up and up and up and up! People has just shown their limbic side, not knowing most of the rational steps to get out of this scenario. And now, the time has come, 500 milliseconds (half a second), 400, 300, 200, 100, and BOOM! The time has then finished its countdown, splashing itself into massive amounts of energy that almost evaporated more than 30% of its mass and dealt extreme amounts of energy – at the magnitudes of hundreds of terajoules to a handful petajoules leaving a casualty percentage of 97.5% and remained only a measly numbered ~>90 people. Activity 3 1. Exchange what you have written with a partner. Read your partner’s work silently, and using your Tone Words handout, write at the top of the page one word that describes the tone of the story. Underline any words or phrases that help you determine the author’s tone. Author’s Tone: Gleeful The scene begins with A sunny afternoon with two children betting who can run faster towards the tree that they have been hanging out with since they can remember. They both wear bright and colorful expressions in their youthful face full of energy, you can hear the boy’s laughter having fun. After racing, Tobi the boy who won, playfully patted the girl’s head as if telling her to try harder next time, the laughter became more audible now mixed with Anne’s laughter. A few minutes have passed, and they both decided to take a nap thereafter eating their snacks. There you can see two bright children smiling while resting with their heads resting on each other's shoulders and their hair fluttering along with the wind. Reader’s Take: – as the scene description was somehow managed by the author to be concisely short but is enough to fuel up its context in an optimistically inspired perspective. Thus, the scene description if ever to be really used in a production or even a novel one, this will be understood by a lot of people due to the coherently connecting “hook” of the tone to the readers. 2. Look closely and your partner’s word choice. In the left column, write a replacement for the original word that has a positive connotation. In the right column, write a replacement for the original word that has a negative connotation. For example: Original verb: shone Positive: gleamed Negative: glared Verbs A. resting B. remember C. fluttering Positive Connotation healing reminisce fleeing Negative Connotation stopping traumatize departing Adjectives Positive Connotation Negative Connotation A. sunny B. colorful C. audible lively dynamic clear scorching distracting noisy 3. After compiling your chart, explain how your replacement words might change, or weaken the tone of the author’s paragraph. With all the words redefined with their connotative counterparts of both opposing degrees, many of these (like >60%) can highly change the orientation of meanings by case uses in many circumstances in a myriad of personal preferences. But fewer words can still amplify the already sharply implied context of the whole scene description, giving much more good emotions to come up with. 4. Pass back the story to its author. Discuss with the author whether the tone you perceived is the same as the tone your partner intended. - Charice Grace G. Laguitao English PeTa 2 Co-Partner
