Traditional Philippine Music Contemporary Philippine Music

• influenced mostly by • The influence of traditional

western classicism; music did not stop as
• followed the traditional contemporary music
standard as to technique, emerged
• Instead, this came as an
Music theory, avenue to dynamic creativity
performances, and and progressivism in music
repertoire • In contrast to the Traditional
Music
 Traditional Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Emphasis on Reading
Music
-As classicism give high regard
to reading music, traditional
musicians are expected
-when perfected, to read
whatever pieces they are
given.
Contemporary Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Primary focus on Ear
Training
-prefers more on auditory
senses
-musicians pride themselves
on being able to hear music
for the first time and play
-Hearing matters most.
 Traditional Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Established Traditional
Techniques
-optimum performance technique
to be used in an instrument.
-a right way to hold instruments in musical elements, then it can
a traditional way and there’s a
wrong way
-Quality sound is attained by the
best technique.
Contemporary Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Progressive Techniques
-no “right way” of holding a
specific instrument
-As long as it relays quality
be accepted
-good music, whether sheet
music or not can be done in
varied techniques
 Traditional Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Equipped Music Theory
-Known classically trained
Philippine Musicians recognize
this Music Theory better
-They analyze notes, standard
rules and therefore can
scrutinize sheet music
accurately.
Contemporary Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Pondering Music Theory as
Framework to performance
-contemporary musicians rely
strongly on improvisation in
their playing, they use
-not limit, music theory to
guide their performance
 Traditional Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Erratic Performance
Opportunities
-classical performances
nowadays is erratic (irregular)
than that of contemporary
musicians
-the skill developed by traditional musicians, and, by number,
composers lend itself to
contemporary performances
Contemporary Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Popularity in performance
-New Music (contemporary) is
defined generally more popular
than that of traditional music
-there are more performance
opportunities for contemporary
contemporary musicians are
rapidly multiplying than that of
the traditional musicians.
 Traditional Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Engaged into Standard
repertoire
-focus heavily on classical
performances
-expected to play difficult
pieces memorized as what has
been written into sheet music.
Contemporary Philippine Music
Characteristics:
• Plays “on-the-fly”
repertoire
-Jazz, Blues, country, and rock
bands performs their go-to (on-
the-fly) learnt learned collection
of songs
-It is important to be familiarized
with the melodic flow as to amaze
the audience with their
improvisations.
 Traditional Philippine Music
 incredible reading skills;
 be able to play their instrument
with a flawless method, giving them
the ideal Classical sound;
 possess a deep knowledge of
Classical music theory and use it to
interpret the notes they read on the
page; and
 understand and appreciate Classical
music and repertoire, and have the
tools needed to perform difficult,
written-out music.
Contemporary Philippine Music
 be able to play quickly anything
they hear;
 have a high focus to sound and be
able to make the specific sound
they are trying to reach;
 establish music theory in a way that
will help them fit in the musical
context they are playing in; and
 understand and appreciate
Contemporary music and repertoir
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20th Century
Traditional Composers
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Buencamino
•Founded:
• Centro Escolar de
Senoritas
• Conservatory of Music
• Buencamino Music
Academy in 1930
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Buencamino
•works:
• Mayon
•Larawan
•Maligayang Bati
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Buencamino
•musical direction
•scoring for films
•Zarzuelas
•kundiman
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Buencamino
•Other Compositions:
• Harana
• Pandanggo ni Neneng
• Collar de Sampaguita
• Dulces las Horas
• My Soul’s Lament
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Buencamino
•Other Compositions:
• Larawan
• Mazurka
• Boholana
• Mi Bandera
• Prinsesa ng Kumintang
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Buencamino
•Other Compositions:
• Maligayang Bati
• Ang Bukang Liwayway
• Ang Bagong Balitaw
• Himig ng Nayon
• Daamdamin (Romance
• Pizzicato Caprice
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Buencamino
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Santiago
•1889-1947
•Father of the Kundiman
• Triumvirate of Filipino
Composers member
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Santiago
• Romantic in style incorporating
western forms and techniques
with folk materials
• first Filipino Director of the
Conservatory of Music,
University of the Philippines
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Santiago
• Compositions:
• Kundiman ( Anak Dalita)
• Himutok
• Pakiusap
• Madaling Araw
• Sakali Man
• Pilipinas Kong Mahal
• Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Francisco Santiago
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Nicanor Abelardo
•1893-1934
•Romantic style
•Named after him:
• Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(Main Theater) of the Cultural
Center of the Philippines
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Nicanor Abelardo
•1893-1934
•Romantic style
•Named after him:
• Abelardo Hall of the UP College
of Music
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Nicanor Abelardo
•Best-known compositions:
• Mutya ng Pasig
• Nasaan Ka Irog?
• Cavatina for Violoncello
• Magbalik Ka Hirang
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Nicanor Abelardo
•Other compositions:
• Bituing Marikit
• Paskong Anong Saya
• Kundiman ng Luha
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Nicanor Abelardo
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Antonio Molina
•1894-1980
•Romantic & Impressionist
styles
•Father of Philippine
Impressionist Music
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Antonio Molina
•fascinated by the dynamics
and harmonies of Debussy
• retained much of the
Romantic style in his melody
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Antonio Molina
•Compositions:
• Hatinggabi
• Misa Antonia
• Grand Festival Mass
• Ang Batingaw
• Kundiman-Kundangan
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Antonio Molina
•Compositions:
• String Quartet
• Kung sa Iyong Gunita
• Pandangguhan
• Amihan
• Awit ni Maria Clara
• Larawan Nitong Pilipina
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Antonio Molina
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Hilarion Rubio
•1902-1985
• Composer
• music teacher
• Conductor
• clarinetist
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Hilarion Rubio
•Compositions:
• Bulaklaken
• Dance of the Nymphs Rondo
• Florante at Laura
• Halik, Danza
• Ang Konsyerto (ballet)
• Ang Magsasaka
• Bukang Liwayway
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Hilarion Rubio
•Compositions:
• Concertino in C
• (Marimba and piano)
• Filipinas Kong Mahal
• Hatulan Mo Ako, Ginintuang Araw
• In a Tropical Sea
• Filipino Youth
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Hilarion Rubio
•Compositions:
• Nela
• Light
• Narra
• Mutya ng Silangan
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Hilarion Rubio
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Col. Antonio Buenaventura
•1904-1996
•promoted Philippine music by
extensively using folk materials in his
works
•recorded folk and dance music around
the country
• Ramon Tolentino
• National Artist for Dance, Francisca
Reyes Aquino
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Col. Antonio Buenaventura
•restored the Philippine
Constabulary Band in 1945
• one of the best military
bands in the world
•National Artist for Music
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Col. Antonio Buenaventura
•Compositions:
• Minuet
• Mindanao Sketches
• Divertimento for Piano and
Orchestra
• Variations and Fugue,
Greetings
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Col. Antonio Buenaventura
•Compositions:
• Greetings
• Pandanggo sa Ilaw
• Prinsesa ng Kumintang
• Pandanggo ni Neneng
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Col. Antonio Buenaventura
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Rodolfo Cornejo
• 1909-1991
•researcher
•official composer of the
Philippine government-in-
exile
• under President Manuel L.
Quezon
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Rodolfo Cornejo
• pianist-director of a USO concert
unit
• entertained the Allied Forces during
World War II
•soloist of several orchestras
•musical director
• Sampaguita
• Vera-Perez movie companies
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Rodolfo Cornejo
• Compositions:
• A la Juventud Filipina
• Bailes de Ayer
• Caprice on a Folksong
• Cello Sonata
• Ibong Adarna
• Kandingan
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Rodolfo Cornejo
• Compositions:
• Malakas at Maganda Overture
• Okaka
• Oriental Fantasy
• Piano Concerto Nos. 12,3
• Ruby song of Miners
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Rodolfo Cornejo
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Felipe P. de Leon Sr.
•1912-1992
•nationalist composer
• expressed the Philippines’
cultural identity through
his compositions
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Felipe P. de Leon Sr.
•Masterpiece operas:
• Noli Me Tangere
• El Filibusterimo
• National Artist for Music
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Felipe P. de Leon Sr.
•Compositions:
• Bulaklak Alitaptap
• bagong Lipunan
• Payapang Daigdig
• Pasko na Naman
• Noche Buena
• Kay Tamis ng Buhay
• Sapagkat Mahal Kita
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Felipe P. de Leon Sr.
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Lucio San Pedro
• 1913-2002
•romantic nationalist
• incorporated Philippine folk
elements in his
compositions with Western
forms and harmony
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Lucio San Pedro
• chords have a rich expressive
tonality
• Sa Ugoy ng Duyan
•Suite Pastorale
• Orchestral musical description
of his hometown Angono
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Lucio San Pedro
• Lahing Kayumanggi
• nationalistic symphonic poem
• National Artist for Music
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Lucio San Pedro
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Rosendo Santos Jr.
•1922-1994
• Concerti
• Sonatas
• Symphonies
• symphonic poems
• five operas in a Philippine dialect
• numerous band ovetures
• over 200 marches
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Rosendo Santos Jr.
•Composition:
• Melinda’s Masquerade
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Rosendo Santos Jr.
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Alfredo Buenaventura
•1929-1997
• composed five full-length
operas
•combine contemporary and
conventional styles
• contain melodies that are
simple and understandable
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Alfredo Buenaventura
•Compositions:
• Maria Makiling
• Diego Silang
• Pasko ng Barangay
• Dakilang Lahi
• Gomburza
• Rizal
• the Great Malayan Antagonist
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Alfredo Buenaventura
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Ryan Cayabyab
•1954-present
•popular and classical worlds
with his pop music, ballads,
operas, zarzuelas, orchestral
arrangement, masses, psalms,
and choral compositions
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Ryan Cayabyab
•award-winning
• Kay Ganda ng Ating
Musika
•modern zarzuela
• Alikabok
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Ryan Cayabyab
•opera
• Spoliarium
• libretto by Fides Cuyugan-
Asensio
• mostly of traditional Western
influence
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Ryan Cayabyab
•Compositions:
• Misa
• Four Poems for Soprano
and Piano
• Te Deum
• Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Ryan Cayabyab
•Compositions:
• Limang Dipang Tao
• Da Cooconut Nut
• Alikabok
• Spoliarium
• Kumukuti-kutitap
20TH CENTURY FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
•Ryan Cayabyab
A composer, music teacher, conductor, and
clarinetist, he created substantial works for
the orchestra. He served as conductor for
opera, ballet, dance recitals, and movie music.

A. Alfredo Buenaventura
B. Hatinggabi
C. Antonio J. Molina
D. Hilarion Rubio
A composer, music teacher, conductor, and
clarinetist, he created substantial works for
the orchestra. He served as conductor for
opera, ballet, dance recitals, and movie music.

A. Alfredo Buenaventura
B. Hatinggabi
C. Antonio J. Molina
D. Hilarion Rubio
He is known as the “Father of the Kundiman” and belongs to
the “Triumvirate of Filipino Composers.” His music was
Romantic in style, incorporating Western forms and techniques
with folk materials. He composed several works such as
kundiman, symphonies, piano concertos, and other music
pieces for the piano, violin, and voice.
A. Francisco Buencamino Sr.
B. Francisco Santiago
C. Rodolfo S. Cornejo
D. Lucio San Pedro
He is known as the “Father of the Kundiman” and belongs to
the “Triumvirate of Filipino Composers.” His music was
Romantic in style, incorporating Western forms and techniques
with folk materials. He composed several works such as
kundiman, symphonies, piano concertos, and other music
pieces for the piano, violin, and voice.
A. Francisco Buencamino Sr.
B. Francisco Santiago
C. Rodolfo S. Cornejo
D. Lucio San Pedro
As a multi-awarded musician, he composed
Minuet, Mindanao Sketches, Divertimento for
Piano and Orchestra, Variations and Fugue, and
Greetings based on Philippine folk music. He was
declared National Artist for Music in 1988 and
passed away in 1996.
A. Francisco B. Buencamino Sr.
B. Felipe de Leon
C. Hilarion Rubio
D. Col. Antonio Buenaventura
As a multi-awarded musician, he composed
Minuet, Mindanao Sketches, Divertimento for
Piano and Orchestra, Variations and Fugue, and
Greetings based on Philippine folk music. He was
declared National Artist for Music in 1988 and
passed away in 1996.
A. Francisco B. Buencamino Sr.
B. Felipe de Leon
C. Hilarion Rubio
D. Col. Antonio Buenaventura
He is known as a "romantic nationalist." He
incorporated Philippine folk elements in his
compositions with Western forms and harmony.
His chords have a rich expressive tonality, as
represented in his well-loved, “Sa Ugoy ng
Duyan”, a lullaby melody sung by his mother.
A. Nicanor Abelardo
B. Rodolfo S. Cornejo
C. Francisco Santiago
D. Lucio San Pedro
He is known as a "romantic nationalist." He
incorporated Philippine folk elements in his
compositions with Western forms and harmony.
His chords have a rich expressive tonality, as
represented in his well-loved, “Sa Ugoy ng
Duyan”, a lullaby melody sung by his mother.
A. Nicanor Abelardo
B. Rodolfo S. Cornejo
C. Francisco Santiago
D. Lucio San Pedro
Antonio J. Molina is best known for
this poignantly romantic serenade for
violin and piano.
A. Melinda’s Masquerade
B. Hatinggabi
C. Pandanggo sa Ilaw
D. Sa Ugoy ng Duyan
Antonio J. Molina is best known for
this poignantly romantic serenade for
violin and piano.
A. Melinda’s Masquerade
B. Hatinggabi
C. Pandanggo sa Ilaw
D. Sa Ugoy ng Duyan