Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Division of Bohol

MUSIC 10
THIRD QUARTER

Quarter : 3 Week : 2 Day : 1 Activity No : 1

Competency : Narrates the life and works of selected Filipino Composers.

Objective : Can illustrate how New Music Composers work enriched Philippine Music.
Topic : Life and music style/characteristics of New Music Philippine Composers.

Materials :

Reference : (Sunico, Horizons 10 Music and Arts for Young Filipinos 2015

Copyrights :

CONCEPT NOTES:

JOSE MONSERRAT MACEDA born Jan.31,1917 in Manila and died May 5,2004 in Quezon City, a composer
and ethnomusicologist and a National Artist for Music in the Philippines. He investigated various forms of music
in Southeast Asia and his audio collections of traditional music among various populations in the Philippines,
Malaysia and Indonesia were inscribed in UNESCO Memory of World Register. Jose Maceda’s musical style
shifted when he encountered the music of the indigenous tribes of Mindoro in 1953. He then embarked on his life’s
work, dedicated to the understanding and preservation of Filipino traditional music. His extensive research and
fieldwork resulted in an immense collection of recorded music taken from the remote mountain villages and far-
flung inland communities in the Philippines. Among his works are: Ugma-ugma (1963),Agungan (1975),Pagsamba
(1968),and Casettes 100(1971).

LUCRESIA ROCES KASILAG born Aug. 31, 1917 in San Fernando and died Aug.16, 2008 in Paco, Manila, was
a composer and pianist and a National Artist for Music in the Philippines.
Lucrecia Kasilag’s compositional style demonstrated a fusion of Eastern and Western styles in using instruments,
melody, harmony, and rhythm. She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into
orchestral productions. Compositions include Toccata for Percussion and Winds (1959), The Legend of the
Sarimanok (1963), Divertissement and Concertante(1960),and the well-loved Dandansoy music transcribed for
Philippine String instruments, the rondalla.

RAMON PAGAYON SANTOS, born on Feb.25,1941 in Pasig City is a composer, musicologist ,

ethnomusicologist and a National Artist for Music in the Philippines, and University Professor Emeritus of
Composition and Theory department ,College of Music at the University of the Philippines. Ramon Santos’
compositional style features chromaticism, music seria, and electronic components, combined with indigenous
Philippine music elements. His works include Ding Ding Nga Diyawa, Nabasag na Banga at Iba’t iba pang
Pinagugpong-ugpong na Pananalita sa Wikang Pilipino para sa Labing Anim na Tinig, and L’BAD.

FRANCISCO FELICIANO, born Feb.19, 1941 in Morong, Bataan and died Sept. 19,2014 in Manila, was a
composer, conductor and National Artist for Music of the Philippines. Francisco Feliciano is one of Asia’s leading
figures in liturgical music, having composed hundreds of liturgical pieces, mass settings, hymns, and songs for
worship. At the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, a school for church musicians which he founded, he
supervised the publication of a new Asian hymnal containing mostly works of Asian composers. Feliciano
composed more than 30 major works, including the musical dramas Sikhay sa Kabila ng Paalam, Ashen Wings,
and the monumental three-act opera La Loba Negra (1984). He also wrote music for the orchestra such as Prelude
and Toccata (1973), Fragments (1976), Life of Wartime Filipino Hero, Jose Abad Santos, and the ballet Yerma
(1982).
EXERCISES/ACTIVITIES.
Identify the New Music Composer illustrated below. Write the full name of the composer.

_______________1. Filipino composer who helped change the atmosphere of Liturgical Music in the
Philippines by composing hundreds of liturgical pieces, Mass settings, hymns and
worship songs.
_______________2.This composer supervised the publication of a new Asian hymnal where it contained
works of Asian liturgical composers in the school he founded, Asian Institute for Liturgy
and Music that enriched the liturgical music of our worship services in the country.
_______________3. The composer whose compositions features chromaticism, music seria with electronic
music, but has the elements of indigenous Philippine music.
_______________4.Because of his extensive research on the Javanese gamelan and the traditional music of
the Ibaloi , Maranao, Mansaka , Bontoc , Yakan and Boholano tribes in the Philippines,
he now heads the UP Center of Ethnomusicology, College of Music, University of the
Philippines.
_______________5. The composers’ style demonstrated a fusion of Eastern and Western styles in using
instruments, melody, harmony, and rhythm and is particularly known for incorporating
indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.
_______________6. She wrote instrumental score of the well loved “Dandansoy” for Rondalla instruments.
_______________7. He investigated various forms of music in Southeast Asia and his audio collections of
traditional music among various populations in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia
were inscribed in UNESCO Memory of World Register in France.
_______________8. He embarked on his life’s work, dedicating to the understanding and preservation of
Filipino traditional music, his extensive research and fieldwork resulted in an immense
collection of recorded music taken from the remote mountain villages and far-flung
inland communities in the Philippines.
_______________9. He wrote one of the Philippines well loved Philippine opera, “La Loba Negra” in 1984.
_______________10. The composer who created a composition, “The Legend of the Sarimanok” , using the
indigenous Muslim instruments.