DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ELEC SPE 1

20th Century Traditional Composers

Prepared by: Ryan B. Timog

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

a. Identify notable traditional music composers.

b. Describes the characteristics of traditional music.
c. Recognize the importance of Traditional Philippine Music as well as Traditional Music Composers.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: 20th Century Traditional Composers

Materials: PowerPoint Presentation

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Preparation
Good morning class. Good morning, Sir.
Before we start our lesson, let’s pray first. (Prayer)
Let’s have a roll call for the attendance. (Checking of attendance)

B. Motivation
Before we start our lesson for today, I want you to take (Students will raise their hands)

a look at the sample music lyrics, can you guess the title of
the song?

Student 1: Teacher I think the title of

(The teacher will call some students to share their the song is “Bumubusibusilak”.

answers). Student 2: Teacher the title of the

Nice Try! It’s not exactly what I was looking for, can song is “Kumukutikutitap”.

someone share their answer?

Very good Student 2!
C. Lesson Proper
Today, our lesson is all about the 20th Century
Traditional Composers.
I will show some pictures of the Traditional Composers
and you will determine the names of each composer. I will
Student 1: Teacher, the first picture is
give two choices per picture. Are you ready? Let’s start.
Lucio D. San Pedro Sr.

1st Picture:

Student 2: Teacher, the second

Very good! Next picture.
picture is Alfredo Buenaventura.

2nd Picture:

Student 3: Teacher, the third picture

Excellent! Next picture.
is Ryan Cayabyab.

3rd Picture:

Great Job kids! Now, let’s move on with the discussion

about the 20th Century Traditional Composers.
So here are the list of the 20th Century Traditional
Composers.
1. Lucio D. San Pedro Sr.
2. Antonino R. Buenaventura
3. Antonio Molina
4. Alfredo Buenaventura
5. Rodolfo Cornejo
6. Bernardino Custodio
7. Hilarion Francisco Rubio
8. Rosenda Santos
9. Ryan Cayabyab
10. Francisco Buencamino Sr.
San Pedro came from a family with
First, let’s talk about Lucio D. San Pedro Sr. Who is musical roots and he began his career
Lucio D. San Pedro Sr.? Can someone read the sentence early. When he was still in his late teens,
shown in the PowerPoint about him? he succeeded his deceased grandfather
as the local church organist.

Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint.

Lucio D. San Pedro Sr., had already composed songs,
hymns and two complete masses for voices and orchestra.
After studying with several prominent musicians in the
Philippines, he took advanced composition training
with Bernard Wagenaar of the Netherlands.
He was known National Artist of the Philippines for
Music, composer of hymns like Nuestro Padre Jesús
Nazareno.
He was awarded of Order of National Artists of the • Sa Ugoy ng Duyan
Philippines Career. • Sa Lupang Sarili
So here are some famous works of Lucio D. San Pedro • Simbang Gabi
Sr., can someone read the famous works shown in the • Malakas at Maganda Overture
PowerPoint? • Lahing Kayumanggi

Thank you for reading the famous works of Lucio D.

San Pedro Sr.

He was also a conductor and restored

the Philippine Army Band to its former
prestige as one of the finest Military
Second Traditional Composer is Antonino R.
bands in the world making it "the only
Buenaventura. Can someone read the sentence shown in
band that can sound like a symphony
the PowerPoint about him?
 orchestra".

Thank you for reading what is shown in the

PowerPoint.
In 1935, he joined Francesca Reyes Aquino to conduct
research about folksong and dances the lead to its
popularization. He earned a post graduate diploma and
later joined the U.P Conservatory as an assistant • History of Fantasy
instructor. He graduated in 1929 in Teacher's Diploma in • Triumphal March
Music, major in Science Composition. • Echoes of The Past
So here are some notable marches of Antonino R. • Secomd Symphony
Buenaventura. Can someone read the famous works • Ode to Freedom
shown in the PowerPoint? • Echoes from The Philippines

• Prelude and Fugue in G Minor

• Philippine Triumphant
Thank you for reading the famous works of Antonio R.
• Symphony in C Minor
Buenaventura.
• Mindanao Sketches
Here are some orchestral music compositions of
• Concert Overture
Antonino R. Buenaventura. Can someone read the famous
works shown in the PowerPoint?

Thank you for reading the orchestral music

compositions of Antonio R. Buenaventura.
Among his famous works, Pandanggo sa Ilaw was
considered the most popular.
Third Traditional Composer is Antonio Molina. Can
someone read the sentence shown in the PowerPoint
about him?
He was also known as the Claude
Debussy of the Philippines due to his use
of impressionist themes in his music. He
was awarded the Order of National
Artists of the Philippines.
 Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint. • 500 Compositions
He attended the Escuela Catolica de Nuestro Padre • Hatinggabi

Jesus Nazareno in Quiapo, Manila, and college at San

Juan De Letran where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1909.
As a composer Antonio Molina is credited with over 500
compositions.
He studied music at the University of
So here are some notable marches of Antonino Molina.
Santo Tomas, the Centro Escolar
Can someone read the famous works shown in the
University and the Gregorian Institute.
PowerPoint?
He was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan in
1929.

Thank you for reading the notable marches of Antonio

Molina.
Fourth Traditional Composer is Alfredo Buenaventura.
Can someone read the sentence shown in the
PowerPoint?

• Maria Makiling (1961)

Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint. • Ang Ating Watawat (1965)
He was formerly organist at the Metropolitan Cathedral • Prinsesa Urduha (1969)
in Manila and, among many other honors, received the • Gomburza (1981)

Republican Cultural Heritage Awards in 1964 and 1972 • Pasko ng Barangay (1964)

and the Bonifacio Centennial Awards. The compositions of • Diego Silang (1966)

Alfredo Buenaventura include a number of operas, • Dakilang Lahi (1971)

symphonic poems, vocal works and chamber music. • Rizal, the Great Malayan Antagonist

So here are some famous works of Alfredo (1990)

Buenaventura. Can someone read the famous works

shown in the PowerPoint?

He is a Doctor, Composer, Pianist. He

is a contemporary student at UP. He is
the Founding member of the League of
Filipino Composers.

Thank you for reading the famous works of Alfredo

Buenaventura.
Fifth Traditional Composer is Rodolfo Cornejo. Can
someone read the sentence shown in the PowerPoint
about him?

• The Season

Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint. • Philippine Symphony No. 1, 2 and 3
He also became director of the Cosmopolitan Colleges • Ruby
Conservatory of Music from 1948 to 1949. He became • OrientaI Fantasy

researcher and official composer of the Philippine • Glissando Waltz

government-in-exile. He also wrote a musical A Glimpse of • Okaka

Philippine Life and Culture, which premiered at the Seattle • Concerto No. 3

Opera House in 1978. He is listed in the International • Kandingan

Who's Who in Music. • Bailes de Ayer

So here are some life works of Rodolfo Cornejo. Can • Philippine Fantasy with Marimba Solo

someone read the life works shown in the PowerPoint?

He is a composer, conductor and

pianist. He studied piano under Pedro
Elioraga and later enrolled as a full
scholar at the University of the
Philippines Conservatory of Music in
1925, graduating with a degree in piano
performance in 1930.

Thank you for reading the life works of Rodolfo Cornejo.

Sixth Traditional Composer is Bernardino Custodio.
Can someone read the sentence shown in the PowerPoint
about him?

Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint.

While at this institution, he also studied composition
• He Promised to Return Music
and conducting under Alexander Lippay, Jeno von Takacs
Department (1949)
and Herbert Zipper. In 1959, he pursued a Master of Arts
• Outrages of the Orient Music
degree at the University of Santo Tomas and traveled to
Department (1948)
the United States under a Smith-Mundt grant. He is one of
• Beast of the East Music Department
the eleven original members of the League of Filipino
(1948)
Composers when it was founded in 1955. Before his
• Music Department. He Promised to
retirement, he also served as member of the executive
Return (1949)
board of the National Music Council of the Philippines and
• Music Department. Beast of the East
dean of the Yamaha School of Music Philippines.
(1948)
 So here are some famous works Bernardino Custodio. • Outrages of the Orient (1948)
Can someone read the famous works shown in the
PowerPoint?

He is a composer, music teacher,

conductor, and clarinetist. His interest in
music came from the influence of his
uncle who was then playing with the
Bacoor Band. He became a member of
Bacoor Band as a Clarinetist at the age
of 8.

Thank you for reading the famous works of Bernardino

Custodio.
Seventh Traditional Composer is Hilarion Francisco
Rubio. Can someone read the sentence shown in the
PowerPoint about him?

• Bulaklaken
• Theme and Variations for Band
• Dance of the Nymphs Rondo
• Florante at Laura
Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint.
• Halik
He served as conductor for opera, ballet, dance
• Danza
recitals, and movie music. He was also a member of the
• Unang Katas
Lyric Theater Orchestra, Trozo Band in Benavides Street,
• Ang Konsyerto
and the Band Moderna in Tondo. He Played the violin and
• Ang Magsasaka
timpani with the UP Junior Symphony.
• Bukang Liwayway
So here are some famous works of Hilarion
• Concerto in C
Francisco Rubio. Can someone read the famous works
• Hatulan mo ako
shown in the PowerPoint?
• Ginintuan Araw
• In A Tropical Sea
• Filipino Youth
• Mutya ng Silangan

He was educated in Cavite schools

and was a graduate of the University of
the Philippines, Conservatory of Music
where he later served as a faculty
member. He received his master’s

Thank you for reading the famous works of Hilarion
Francisco Rubio.
Eighth Traditional Composer is Rosendo Santos. Can
someone read the sentence shown in the PowerPoint?
degree in theory and composition from
the Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C., and later served on
the faculty of the Catholic University,
West Virginia University, and Howard
University.

Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint.

He started composing band marches, instrumental and
vocal scores and Catholic masses. He was later named a
UNESCO scholar and received the Composer of the Year
Award. In Manila he was Composer of the Year in 1956
and 1957, and won 12 prizes consecutively in composition
contests. Most recently, he received the title of “The
Philippine Composer of the Century.” Ryan Cayabyab is one of the most
He has also conducted church choirs in Maryland, New popular prolific composers in the
Jersey, and most recently at Lehman, Huntsville and Philippines. Today he had written works
Shavertown United Methodist Churches in Pennsylvania. for ballet theatre musicals corals pieces
He composed the background music for J. Arthur Rank masses and pop songs. He also did
Films at Pinewood Studios in London, England, where he commission works for commercial jingles
worked with Muir Mathieson and Malcolm Arnold. Among and movies.
his teachers were Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, Humphrey
Searle and conductor Norman Del Mar.

Ninth Traditional Composer is Ryan Cayabyab. Can

someone read the sentence shown in the PowerPoint
about him?

• Kumukutikutitap
• Da Coconut Nut
• Kay Ganda Ng Ating Musika

Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint.

 He composed the award-winning music kay Ganda ng
Ating Musika in 1978 and he also served as the executive
and artistic director of the San Miguel Foundation for the He was the sixth of ten children born

Performing Arts. to Fortunato Buencamino and the first

So here are some famous works of Ryan Cayabyab. child with his second wife, Luisa Beltran,

Can someone read the famous works shown in the a younger sister of his first wife

PowerPoint? Marcelina Beltran. Buenacamino's father

was Victor Buencamino, a wealthy man
who was originally known as Victor
Mangalindan. Francisco grew up

Thank you for reading the famous works of Ryan in Aliaga in the province of Nueva

Cayabyab. Ecija from 1887 . His father taught him

The last Traditional Composer is Francisco the basics of music until he began his

Buencamino Sr. Can someone read the sentence shown education at the Liceo de Manila at the

in the PowerPoint about him? age of 13.

Thank you for reading what is shown in the PowerPoint.

During that period, Marcelo Odonay also received • Daughters of Bathala 
lessons in composing. After graduating, he taught music at • Mayon
the Ateneo de Manila University . Beginning in 1908,
Buencamino was head of the music department at Centro
Escolar University for three decades. 
In 1938 he dropped out to concentrate fully on the
Buencamino Music Academy he had founded in 1930.
He composed many Tagalog zarzuelas . He made
extensive use of Filipino melodies and folk music in his
work. 
So here are some famous works of Francisco
Buencamino Sr. Can someone read the famous works
shown in the PowerPoint?

D. Application
The teacher will ask:
 If you could be a composer, who would you be and
why?

E. Generalization
I know you’ve learned a lot from our discussion today.
To end our discussion, let me ask you one question.

1. What was the most significant thing that you have

learned from our lesson today?

IV. Evaluation
Identify the 20th Century Traditional Composers being described in each number. Choose the letter
of the correct answer.

a. Lucio D. San Pedro Sr.

b. Antonino R. Buenaventura
c. Antonio Molina
d. Alfredo Buenaventura
e. Rodolfo Cornejo
f. Bernardino Custodio
g. Hilarion Francisco Rubio
h. Rosendo Santos
i. Ryan Cayabyab
j. Francisco Buencamino Sr.

_____ 1. He was the founding member of the League of Filipino Composers.

_____ 2. He was awarded of Order of National Artists of the Philippines
Career.
_____ 3. He became a member of Bacoor Band as a Clarinetist.
_____ 4. He was an honored member of the Senior Mozart Club of Wyoming Valley.
_____ 5. He was a conductor and restored the Philippine Army Band to its former prestige as one of the
finest Military bands in the world.
_____ 6. He served as the executive and artistic director of the San Miguel Foundation for the
Performing Arts.
_____ 7. He was formerly organist at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Manila.
_____ 8. He was the head of the music department at Centro Escolar University for three decades.
_____ 9. He was also known as the Claude Debussy of the Philippines due to his use
of impressionist themes in his music.
_____ 10. He was appointed associate conductor of the Manila Symphony Orchestra.

V. Assignment
Choose one musical composition of the traditional composers that you like most and write a short
reaction paper about the music.