SECULAR

MUSIC
What is Secular Music?
• is a non- religious music.
• The word “secular” means “being
separate from religion”.
• The secular music in the Philippines were
influenced by the Spaniards and the
dance, music, and art songs express their
feelings to each other and their
environment.
TYPES OF SECULAR
MUSIC
 • is a traditional
HARAN Filipino serenade by
man to a woman
A outside the woman’s
house to show one’s
love to a woman.
• is usually
accompanied by a
guitar.
CHARACTERISTICS OF HARANA
• usually in habanera
that is in duple time
and danza.
• talks of love
• it is usually
accompanied by a
guitar.
• SAMPLE SONG:
O, Ilaw (Aking Bituin)
 • is a song
traditionally
BALITA associated with the
Visayan region.
W • is a debate or a
dialogue song in
which a woman and
a man compete to
see who is better at
improvising
romantic verses.
CHARACTERISTICS OF BALITAW

• the verses are

sometimes memorized
in advance.
• usually written in
triple meter.
 • is a war song.
• is the name given to
KUMINTAN several styles,
techniques, and forms
G in music and dance
that originated in areas
It is a dance- song used by the early
performed by pairs Spanish cartographers
of men and women, to indicate a large
province known as
with text Batangas.
concerning love and
 KUNDIMAN
• came from the word “Kung Hindi Man”. It is an art
song that speaks about love of a man for a woman and
can be a nationalistic passion.
• it usually starts in a minor key and then goes to major
key.
EXAMPLE OF KUNDIMAN SONGS:
- Nasaan ka Irog?
- Mutya ng Pasig
- Bituing Marikit
- Kundiman ng Luha
Kundiman ng Luha
• is an example of a kundiman song
composed by Nicanor Abelardo.
• it has a slow tempo with a wide range
of melody song. It is homophonic in
texture and uses head tone and chest
tone in singing.