NEW MUSIC

New music represents works that exemplify progressive inclination of the

present era. It demonstrates a new approach to music with or without the use of a
familiar tradition. New music composers strive to seek new sounds from ethnic
influences specifically from the Asian countries' "oriental sounds" to have a new
element, a new structural form, a new media, and a new way of expression.

As a whole, new music is very significant and an adventurous music. Some of

the adventurous composers of avant-garde and new music in the Philippines are
Jose Maceda, Lucresia Kasilag, Jerry Dadap, and Ramon Pagayon Santos.
 JOSE MACEDA (1917-
2004)
Maceda was an expert on ethnomusicology and his focus on
music is Indonesian and Filipino.

His major compositions include: "Ugma-Ugma", "Pagsamba"

and "Udlot- Udlot".

Some of his published works are Hanunuo Music from the

Philippines, Philippine Music and Contemporary Aesthetics, Music
of Southeast Asia, Gongs and Bamboos: A Panorama of Philippine
Music, and A Manual of Music research with Special reference to
Southeast Asia.
 LUCRESIA KASILAG (1917-
2008)
Kasilag was proclaimed a National Artist in Music in 1989.

Kasilag was a popular figure in the world of Philippine music.

She was an educator, performing artist, and a composer. She
learned to play the banduria and guitar at an carly age. She fused
Filipino indigenous music to Western music which led for other
Filipino composers to follow in her footsteps. She had the courage
and wit to incorporate indigenous Filipino instruments in
orchestral performances such as the prize-winning Toccata for
Percussions and Winds.
 LUCRESIA KASILAG (1917-
2008)
The works of Kasilag include orchestral, chamber,
vocal, organ, piano, sacred, dance, operetta, theatre,
incidental, and electronic music. Her compositions
with ethnic influence include April Morning, Elegy on
Mt. Pinatubo, Lullaby, Toccata for Percussions and
Winds, Divertissement for Piano and Orchestra,
Legend of the Sarimanok and others.
 JERRY DADAP (1935-PRESENT)

Dadap finished his degree in music major in composition at

the University of the Philippines in 1964. He did a full concert at
the famous Carnegie Recital Hall in New York featuring only his
works. He is the first Filipino ever who was given that kind of
opportunity.

He started composing while still studying at the Siliman

University in Dumaguete and became a member of the UP ROTC
Band in Manila. He joined in a national composition contest and
came up second.
 JERRY DADAP (1935-PRESENT)

Among the works of Dadap are Violin Concerto

in Three Movements, the chamber music
Mangamuyo I, ballet music Tomaneng at Aniway,
opera Andres Bonifacio; Ang Dakilang Anak Pawis
and the rondalla Philippine Symphonic Rondalla.
 RAMON PAGAYON SANTOS
(1941-PRESENT)
Santos finished Bachelor of Music Composition and
Conducting from the University of the Philippines in 1965
and his Master's degree in Indiana University, United
States in 1969.

The long list of compositions of Santos include "Ding

Ding Nga Diwaya", "Nabasag Ang Banga", "Ang Hardin
Ni Ligaya", "Ang Puting Waling- Waling Daragang
Magayon", "Images" and "Time and you Space".
 JOSEFINO "CHINO"
TOLEDO (1959-PRESENT)
Toledo is a conductor, composer, and teacher in
composition and theory at the University of the
Philippines College of Music. His music reflects fusion
of Western and traditional music of Southeast Asia. He is
a former director of the Peace Philharmonic Orchestra
and the Manila Symphony Orchestra. He conducted
orchestral performances in several festivals abroad like
Japan, Australia, China, Indonesia.
 JOSEFINO "CHINO"
TOLEDO (1959-PRESENT)
His music has been described as “pure and powerful.”
Toledo edits and revises Philippine sarsuwelas. Among his
works are for orchestrations and arrangements for different
forces and music for films and theaters.

His award-winning works include “Tatluhan” and “Taghoy

ng Kalikasan”. His major works are “Tulali”, Aliw-iw and
“Dalawang Ug-og”. His music Mga Sulyap sa Simbahan ng
Quiapo Mula sa Kalye Echague were performed in the Lincoln
Center for Performance Arts in New York City in 2012.