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CONTEMPORARY
PHILIPPINE MUSIC
(Traditional to New Music)
Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson the learners
are expected to:
1. Narrates the life of contemporary Filipino
composers;
2. Analyze the characteristics of traditional and
contemporary Philippines music, and;
3. Improvise simple accompaniment for a
representative music;
4. Performs a selected contemporary Philippine
music.
Activity A.
Think & Write
Directions: Identify the compositions of the following Filipino
traditional composers. Choose the answer from the choices below.
• A capella
a vocal composition without
instrumental accompaniment
Characteristics of Traditional
Philippine Music
• Sonata
a composition for one or more solo
instruments, one of which is usually
a keyboard instrument, and usually
consisting of three or four
independent movements varying in
key, mood, and tempo.
Classifications of Philippine
traditional musical instruments
Melody
refers to the succession of notes
played one after another under
the accompaniment of musical
instruments.
Classifications of Philippine
traditional musical instruments
The tail with the two (originally three) pieces of carabao skin
Decorated
bamboo tube;
closed by a node
at both ends.
Saludoy (T’boli)
Chordophone; idiochord; Tube made of
bamboo with five strings cut from the tube.
Afiw (Bontoc)
Brass instrument horizontally held by the
tongue in front of the opened mouth.
Balingbing (Kalingga)
Idiophone; Bamboo buzzer
Contemporary
Music
Composers
Born on Dec. 26, 1894 – Quiapo, Manila
Dean of Filipino
Antonio Molina Composers
Musical Compositions
Hatinggabi - Violin
Amihan - Poem
Dr. Jose M.
Maceda
Studied Anthropology and
Ethnomusicology at the University of
Chicago & Indiana University
respectively
CONTEMPORARY
PHILIPPINE MUSIC
(Traditional to New Music)
Born on Dec. 26, 1894 – Quiapo, Manila
Dean of Filipino
Antonio Molina Composers
Musical Compositions
Hatinggabi - Violin
Amihan - Poem
Dr. Jose M.
Maceda
Studied Anthropology and
Ethnomusicology at the University of
Chicago & Indiana University
respectively
Dr. Lucrecia R.
Kasilag
1952 to 1990 – Professor of
Ethnomusicology and Piano at the
University of the Philippines
1997 to 2004 – became a professor
emeritus and served as an executive
director of the UP Center for
Ethnomusicology
Dr. Lucrecia R.
Kasilag
Received a Music Teacher`s Diploma
major in Piano from St. Scholastica`s
College & Bachelor of Arts in English
from the Philippine Women`s University
Dr. Lucrecia R.
Kasilag
Regarded as the “First Lady of
Philippine Music”
Levi Celerio
Studied at the Academy of Music
in manila.
Sa Ugoy ng Duyan
Kahit Konting Pagtingin
Born on October 14, 1929
One of the sopranos of the Quezon
City Tiples de Sto. Domingo Church