Philippine

Music
 Trace and summarize the
Appreciate better the
development of the arts,
history and development
art appreciation and
of Philippine Music and
aesthetics in
Arts
contemporary art practice
 “Getting in touch with our musical
roots—and understanding that music
says as much about us as history and the
other arts—can have the grandeur of
looking deep into our souls, as well as
the simplicity of knowing our name.”

-PAUL DE GUZMAN
WESTERN MUSIC PHILIPPINE MUSIC
>Medieval
>Renaissance •Ethnic
>Baroque •Spanish Colonial,
>Classical
>Romantic •American Colonial
•Contemporary tradition
 ETHNIC MUSIC

• Most of the musical forms are performed in connection with rites of

passage and life cycle events as well as occupational activities
• In celebrations, instrumental playing is common whereas solo instrument
playing is done for courting or self-entertainment.
• The Islamic music tradition, which is part of the ethnic tradition, is largely
based on the practices of the pre-Islamic cultures of the southern part of
the Philippines
 Ethnic Tradition

Vocal music Instrumental

• cantata form-w/ or • courting

without • self-entertainment
accompaniment,
solo/group
• acapella
• sonata form- a
composition for one
or more solo
instrument
INDIGENOUS MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT
• Aerophones
• Chordophones
• Idiophones
• Membranophones
 any musical instrument which
produces sound primarily by causing a
body of air to vibrate, without the use of
strings or membranes, and without the
vibration of the instrument itself adding
considerably to the sound
AEROPHONES best represented by the many types of
bamboo flutes that are found all over the
country
 • paldong, or kaldong of the Kalinga
• palendag of South Maguindanao
Lip Valley Flute • pulalu of Manobo
Nose Flute
• The northern tribes call this kalaleng (Bontoc and
Kankanaey), tongali (Ifugao and Kalinga)
and baliing (Isneg). In the Central Philippines, it is
known as lantuy among the Cuyunin, babarek
among the Tagbanua and plawta among the
Mangyan
Ring flute

• Suling of Maguindanao
• the blowing end is encircled with
a rattan ring to create
mouthpiece
 any musical instrument which
makes sound by way of a
vibrating string or strings
stretched between two points

Chordophones
Include bamboo zithers, guitars,
violins, and lutes
Kolitong
Kudlung (Central Mindanao)
 Kudyapi
(Bukidnon)
 • Two stringed lute made of wood,
one string for the melody, one
for the drone. Eight frets
originally held in place placed on
the neck of the lute by a sticky
rubbery substance. The lute is
Kudyapi/Kudlung decorated with floral motives;
the tail is carved to represent a
stylised crocodile head.
Idiophones
 • kubing of Maranao
• kolibau Tingguian, aruding Tagbanua, a very thin slit of
bamboo or brass with a narrow vibrating tongue in the middle
longitudinal section
•
Jaw harp considered a “speaking intrument”
Bamboo Buzzer

• balingbing, or bunkaka Kalinga;

batiwtiw (Central Philippines)
• a bamboo tube which is open or split at
one end
• This instrument is played alone or in
groups as a form and diversion or to drive
away evil spirits along a forest trail.
Kulintang • consists of eight gongs placed horizontally in a frame
and tuned to a flexible pentatonic or five-tone scale
(Maguindanao and
Maranao)
Agung (Bagobo)
Bangibang
Membranophones
• any musical instrument which produces sound
primarily by way of a vibrating stretched
membrane

Dadabuan of Maranao
Sulibaw/Salibaw
(Cordillera)
 Lullabies (owiwi, dagdagay, oppia, lagan bata-bata,
bua, and kawayanna)
didactic/figurative

Occupational dinaweg (boar), the kellangan

Vocal (shark-fishing), and the didayu (wine-making)

Forms Occasional appros, nan-sob-oy, sarongkawit, dikir

War

love ading, sindil

 Improvisation

Low and limited range of notes

Melodic ornamentations

Patterns and Greater variety of voice quality

Characteristics Chant-like monotone singing in most groups

Rhythmic freedom

large number of reiterated and marked accents on one

vowel
 REFERENCES

▪ https://ph.asiatatler.com/life/historical-notes-on-why-filipinos-love-music
▪ https://ncca.gov.ph/about-ncca-3/subcommissions/subcommission-on-the-arts-
sca/music/philippine-music-formscomposition/
▪ https://wfmt.info/2012/12/29/filipino-folk-
music/#:~:text=The%20three%20main%20forms%20introduced,traditional%20Spanish%20and
%20Mexican%20music.