SAINT JOSEPH COLLEGE

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No. 11 IN MAPEH 10

JASON S. MONTER

CHRISTIAN JAKE S.

MORALDE
 CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE MUSIC
narrates the life of selected contemporary Filipino composer/s ; MU10CM-IIIc-g-3

What is traditional Filipino music?

Like other traditional music in other countries Filipino traditional music reflects e way of
life, beliefs, and traditions of the rural folks. This type of music usually clothes the beauty of
nature and many strong connections with his environment.

What are the characteristics of traditional Philippine music?

Traditional Philippine music has been influenced by other cultures as a result of either
intercultural meetings or colonization. One of its distinct characteristic is its employment of
diatonic scale rather than the usual Asian pentatonic scale. The word "diatonic “is a Greek word
that means progressing through tones

Traditional music may be classified according to cultural and language: divisions. For
example, the traditional music in lowland areas in the islands of Luzon and Visayas has the
Spanish influence. However, the music of the upland people like the Igorot and Ifugao in Luzon,
and the Muslims and Lumad in Mindanao have the indigenous flavor.

1. Ethnic

a. The Muslims kulintang is an ensemble composed of a set of eight gongs of

graduated sizes arranged in a row. The kulintang includes
gandingan la set of suspended gongs agung (a tubular
drum) and a babandil (a small gong).

b. The Gangsa ensemble is played according to the

traditions of the different tribes (Kalinga, Ifugao, Bontoc) of the Cordillera. It is a
smooth-surfaced gong with a narrow rim

2. Hispanic
 a. Rondalla - originated in Spain but became most
popular in Philippine folk music after it was introduced
during the 19th century. It is an ensemble of stringed
instrument with the pick such as guitar, laud, octavina,
piccolo, and bajo de unas.

b. Sarsuwela is a combination of melo drama. Songs and dances. Same with rondalla,
sarsuwela was also introduced by the Spaniards. The rondalla serves as
accompaniment of the sarsuwela.

3. Filipino
a. Kundiman is an art song that speaks about
the love of a man for a woman. It is usually
written in time signature and usually in a
minor key and then shifts to the major key.
This arrangement usually gives the listenera
light and happy mood at the end of the
song,
b. Balitao is an old Visayan folk song and
dance where a man and woman engage in a debate by means of a song. The
lyrics are usually humorous and spontaneously performed.

c. The Musikong Bumbong or bamboo music is a band that uses improvised

instrument made of bamboo. The bamboo band includes piccolo, tuba, clarinets,
flutes, and saxophones made of bamboo. Musikong bumbong or Bamboo music
is still played during festivals.

What are the classifications of Philippine traditional musical instruments?

Music would be impossible to express without the use of melody. Melody refer to
the succession of notes played one after another under the accompaniment of musical
instruments. Among the basic Philippine musical instrument classifications are the
following:

1. Instruments that are blown - aerophones (whether made of wood of bamboo)

2. Instruments that are struck - idiophones and membranophones

3. Instruments that are plucked -chordophones

What are some traditional Filipino music instruments?

Traditional instruments are sound producing tools used as accompaniment for rituals such
as harvest, courtship, and worship.
1. Kudlung - Two-stringed lute made of wood

2. Kudyapi- Two-stringed boat shaped lute

3. Serongagandi- Decorated bamboo tube; closed by a node at both ends

What is Contemporary Philippine Music?

Also known as "New Music or Modern music, contemporary Philippine music

pertains to compositions that have adopted elements of 20th-century Western music as
well as the latest trends and musical styles in the entertainment industry and in the
musical world.

Who are some of the famous Filipino composers of contemporary music and what
are examples of their famous compositions?

Antonio Jesus Molina

December 2, 1894-January 22,
1980

Here are some important facts about Antonio Some of his composition Molina are as
follows:

Hatinggabi (Violin)

Malikmata (Plano)

Ana Maria (Zarzuela

Misa Antoniana (Mass)

Ang Batingaw (Chamber Music)

Pandangguhan (Vocal Music)

Amihan, Awit ni Maria Clara

(Poem)

Larawan Nitong Pilipinas (Vocal Music)

  He was a conductor
 He composed "Matinal" in 1912
 He was a concert soloist, composer, and conductor in Hanoi, Vietnam
 He taught harmony, composition music history, and violoncello at the UP
Conservatory of Music

 He was the first Filipino composer who was invited to perform at the Malacañan
Palace
 He led the first Philippine performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. This was
presented by both Knox and Central Church Choirs in 1947 as the first
performance of Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni

 He was remembered as the conductor of the first televised choral concert which
featured the Centro Escolar University Conservatory Chorus

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

(31 August 1918 – 16 August 2008)

Was a Filipino composer and pianist. She is

particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino
instruments into orchestral productions.
Lucrecia “King” Roces Kasilag was born in San
Fernando, La Union, Philippines, the third of the six
children of Marcial Kasilag, Sr., a civil engineer, and his
wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial, a violinist and a violin
teacher. She was Kasilag's first solfeggio teacher. The
second was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict
Spanish woman. Kasilag later studied under Doña Pura
Villanueva, during which time performed her first public
piece, Felix Mendelssohn's May Breezes, at a student recital when she was ten years
old.
Kasilag grew up in Paco, Manila, where she was educated at Paco Elementary
School and graduated valedictorian in 1930. She then transferred to Philippine
Women's University for high school, where in 1933 she also graduated as valedictorian.
For college, she graduated cum laude in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in
English, in the same university. She also studied music at St. Scholastica’s College
in Malate, Manila, with Sister Baptista Battig, graduating with a Music Teacher's
Diploma, major in piano, in 1939.[2]:89[3]
 During World War II, she took up composition, and on 1 December 1945, she
performed her own compositions in a concert at Philippine Women's University. From
1946 to 1947, Kasilag taught at the University of the Philippines’ Conservatory of Music
and worked as secretary-registrar at Philippines Women's University.
She completed a Bachelor of Music in 1949, and then attended the Eastman
School of Music in Rochester, New York, studying theory with Allen I. McHose and
composition with Wayne Barlow. Kasilag returned to the Philippines, and in 1953 she
was appointed Dean of the Philippines Women's University College of Music and Fine
Arts.[

Alfredo Santos Buenaventura

October 14, 1929

At an early age in grade school, Buenaventura became a member of a band that

marched the town. During the pre war era, Buenaventura
was one of the sopranos of the Quezon City Tiples de
Sto. Domingo Church (similar to the Vienna Boy's
Choir). They were given first-class musical training. At
that time, he also wrote his first composition, which was
a Danza. In 1960, he was the organist at the Manila
Cathedral Other than being affiliated with the League of
Filipino Composers, Buenaventura received numerous
outstanding awards in the music industry. One of these
is the Republic Cultural Heritage Awards, of which he
won twice,

As a conductor, as well as a music education teacher, Buenaventura based his

compositions on epics, legends, and local heroes, Buenaventura used folk and tribal
songs as themes as well as indigenous musical Instruments for his compositions. His
works comprise of cantatas, chamber music, concertos, ballets, band fugues, preludes,
and symphonies. He composed more than 50 religious songs and hymns.

Some of Buenaventura's compositions were made for special occasions such as

the 16th Centenary of St. Augustine, 400th Year of the Augustinian Recollect Mass, and
the Philippine Music Festival His works have also been played or performed in
international virtuosos and religious presentations. The following are some of his famous
compositions

Maria Makiling (1961) Ang Ating Watawat

(1965) Prinsesa Urduha (1969) Gomburza

(1987)

Paskong Barangay (1964)

Diego Silang (1966)

Dakilang Lahi (1971)

Rizal, the Great Malayan Antagonist (1990)

Dr. Ramon Pagayon Santos

Born February 25. 1941-Present

Dr. Ramon Santos was born in Pasig. Rizal on 25

February 1941. Since all the members of his family except his
father were members of the Pasig Artists Guild, he was
exposed to music at a young age. When he was in the
elementary grades he had his only formal music lessons with
her grandmother, Josefa Andrada Pagayon and a few violin
lessons with another teacher. He graduated valedictorian at
Pasig Catholic School elementary department in 1954. He
completed high school at the San Jose Seminary where he
joined a choir.

He studied at the UP Conservatory of Music, major in Composition and

Conducting. He used to expose himself to all kinds of music in the UP Ubrary. He was so
amazed with the avant-garde music of Varese--the association of sounds sirens,
percussions, and chimes He was also exposed to Jose Maceda's avant-garde
composition=Ugma-Ugra. The greatest exposure he had was in 1966 International Music
Symposium held in Manila where all the avant-garde people came and presented their
works He became Fulbright-Hays travel grantee and graduated with distinction a Master
in Music degree major in composition. He also studied in the State University of New
York at Buffalo in 1969 where he studied composition and took contemporary music.
There, he also became the assistant teacher from 1969 to 1972 and assistant conductor
of the University Chorus

Upon his return to the Philippines in 1972, he was soon appointed Assistant
Professor in Composition at the UP College of Music. He became its chairman of
Composition and Conducting Department. He was a conductor of the Ateneo de Manila
University Glee Club chairman of the Graduate Committee of the UP College of Music, a
professor/lecturer at the PWu, and also a guest lecturer of the Philippine Educators
Theater Arts. He became the Dean of the UP College of Music in the late 80s to the
early 90s He is a National Artist of the Philippines for Music in 2015 and at present, a
University Professor Emeritus of the Composition and Theory Department of the
University of the Philippines College of Music.
Some of his compositions are the following

 Ding Ding Nga Diwaya

 Nabasag ang Banga at iba't iba Pang Pinag-ugpongug-pong na pananalita

paraiso Labing-anim na Tinig

 Ang Hardin ni Ligaya (lyrics by the composer), 1965

 Ang Puting Waling-Waling lyrics by the composer 1972

 Images, 1975

Some of his awards

 2nd prize, Bonifacio Centennial Composition Contest, 1963

 Award of Recognition for Outstanding Achievement in Music, Minerva

 Association, 1963

 2nd prize, National Composition Contest, 1963

 Some of the awards he received include the following:

 2nd prize in the Bonifacio Centennial Composition Contest in 1963 Award of

Recognition for Outstanding Achievement in Music. Minerva

 Association in 1963

 2nd prize in the Bonifacio Centennial Composition Contest in 1963

 Ryan Cayabyab
May 4, 1954

Are you familiar with the song "Kay Ganda Ng Ating Musika? If yes, then you
should know by now that it was Mr. Ryan Cayabyab who
composed it. Warmly known as Mr. C. Raymundo
Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab was born in Manila,
Philippines: His mother was an opera singer who died
when Ryan was only 6 years old. Ryan's father sustained
him and his three siblings presented Ryan Cayabyab a
scholarship that would allow Ryan to change his course
and take up music cayabyab then graduated from the UP College of Music earning a
degree in

Department of Composition and Music Theory in UP Diliman for about two

decades. He used to be the Director of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the
Performing Arts and he was also a resident judge of the Philippine Idol in the year 2006.
Mr. C as he is fondly called in the Philippine Music industry, is a very versatile musician,
composer, and arranger, whose works include theater musicals, choral pieces, pop
music and even commercial recordings and musical scorings. His projects included
Ryan Cayabyab singers, a group of seven young adult singers similar to the former
Smokey Mountain in the 1990s. He is also the executive director of the Philpop
Musicfest Foundation Inc, the society behind the Philippine Popular Music Festival. This
is a songwriting competition exclusively for amateurs and professionals that encourage
Filipinos to safeguard our own musical identity

Door of Music Major in Compton Afterwards, he became a professor for the

Mr. Cayabyab's works range from commissioned full-length ballets, theater

musicals, choral pieces, a Mass set to unaccompanied chorus, orchestral pieces, to
commercial recordings of popular music film scores and television specials. He produced
a multi-track recording known as "One, a series of albums

Ryan Cayabyab also produced the following works:

He first took up Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in the University

of the Philippines, Diliman. While in college, be had to join former Senator Salvador
Laurel
 as an accompanist for the Development Bank of the Philippines Chorale Ensemble to
sustain his studies. Seeing his excellent ability on the piano, the Senator

ACTIVITY;
In your Mapeh Text book open in page 66. And answer ACTIVITY 11.
Write your answer in a clean long bond paper. No need to pass a
video just research everything.

Answers:

1. The common musical form of the contemporary music in the Philippines

are cultural traditions and western-influenced art and popular music.

2. Yes, I think foreigners may know us better if they understand our culture
and music because Filipinos commonly express their feelings and way of
life through songs or music.

3. If I will be able to invite a foreigner friend I would make him/her

understand, appreciate and enjoy our music and cultural traditions by
introducing the best songs here in our country and let them experience our
fun traditions like going to festivals in which there are lots of music, dances,
costumes, plays and traditions involve.

4. As a young Filipino student, I will promote Contemporary Philippine

music and traditional music to the street children and to my fellow youth as
well by influencing them to listen to our traditional music and also by
sharing or posting in social media so that contemporary music can still be a
trend in this generation.

5. The basic element of the Contemporary music in the Philippines are

usually adopted from the 20th century art music in the West.

6. A Filipino artist can effectively convey emotions or ideas through the

structures of the music they made and by the message of the song that
they are trying to portray to the listeners.