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Art Appreciation (GEC 6)

Kristina Francisco-Laurilla
Appreciating Filipino Music
Kristina Francisco-Laurilla
The most common types of Filipino musical
instruments

Gong
Flute
Slit drum
Xylophone
Lute
Zither
Filipino musical instruments

Filipino musical instruments make use of


products that come from a tropical
Raw environment: bamboo, langka, banaba,
rattan, coconut tree, abaca plant; from
Materials animals, from stones, from metals (bronze,
iron and brass), from the sea; recycled
materials too.
Filipino Music

• Winds,
How we • Strings,
make • Percussions,
sounds • Modern instruments powered by electricity
• Human body – is a natural musical
instrument!
Filipino Music

• Winds,
How we • Strings,
make • Percussions,
sounds • Modern instruments powered by electricity
• Human body – is a natural musical
instrument!
Filipino Music

Musical • Luzon
Tour of the • Visayas
Philippines • Mindanao
Filipino Music

Musical • The Philippines, a colony for several


centuries, was introduced to the
Instruments music/musical instruments of its
Made colonizers – through missionaries,
Filipino teachers, colonial administrators, and
through trade.
Filipino Music
• Filipinos were taught to read and write
music, as well as play instruments such as
Musical piano, organ, guitar, violin, harp, and flute.
Instruments • This resulted to hybrid musical instruments.
Made • In a globalized world, musical instruments
Filipino will continue to travel from one country to
another.
Musician Spotlight

• National Artist for Music and Literature


Levi in 1997.
Celerio • “the only man who could play music
using a leaf” – Guinness Book of World
Records

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