THE HISTORY OF

PHILIPPINE
HISTORY
Music had an important role in
Philippines in regulating and
coordinating the religious and
social life of the Filipinos.
Music was considered sacred and
was treated as a fine art, and a
subject to be taught.
Though Philippine music timeline
narrates sanctity of Philippine
music,
Music of1795
the was the yearare
Philippines of
Golden Age of sacred music
performance arts composed in in
Philippines
various genremusic historyThe
and styles.
music of the Philippines is a
mixture of indigenous, other Asian,
Membranophones are instruments that
make sound from the vibrations of stretched
skins or membranes. Drums, tambourines, and
some gongs are common examples of
membranophones.

Bamboo craftsman and musician playing a

bamboo guitar. How many of Kerala's many
musical instruments are made out of bamboo?
The flute, which is a part of the classical music
tradition in India, is the most popular bamboo
musical instrument in the country.

The kubing is a type of Philippine jaw harp from

bamboo found among the other Muslim and
non-Muslim tribes in the Philippines and
Indonesia. 
Although, geographically,
the Philippines belongs to the East,
its music has been heavily influenced by the
West owing to 333 years of Spanish rule and 45
years of American domination. Music in the
highland and lowland hamlets where indigenous
culture continues to thrive has strong Asian
elements
Disco is a genre of dance music
and a subculture that emerged in
the 1970s from the United States'
A ballad is a form of verse, often a
urban nightlife scene. Its sound
narrative set to music. Ballads derive
is typified by four-on-the-floor
from the medieval French chanson
beats,
or ballade, which were Contemporary folk dance music refers
syncopated
originally to a wide variety of genres that
basslines,
"dance songs". Ballads emerged in the mid 20th century
string sections, horns, electric
were particularly characteristic of the and
piano, synthesizers, and electric
popular poetry and song of Britain afterwards
rhythm guitars.
and Ireland from the later medieval which
period until the 19th century. were
associated with traditional folk
music. Starting in the mid-20th
century a new form of popular
folk
music
evolved
from
traditional folk music.