CONTEMPORARY

PHILIPPINE
MUSIC
According to national artist Ramon
Santos, PHD., “Contemporary music in
the Philippines refers to compositions
that have adopted ideas and elements
from 20th-century art music in the West,
as well as the latest trends and musical
styles in the entertainment industry.

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The modern Filipino repertoire
consists of musical pieces that have
been written in the 20th century,
idioms that have evolved out of such
stylistic movements as
impressionism, expressionism,
neoclassicism, as well as Avant-garde
and new music.

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New music or compositions that are
improvisational works such as Dr. Ramon
Santos’s early compositions Radyasyon
and Quadrasyon

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Josefino “CHINO” Toledo’s Samu’t-Sari,
Pintigan, and Terminal Lamentations.

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Jonathan Baes “Wala and Banwa.

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 TOPIC

 20th Century Traditional Music

 New Music Composer
 Song Composers

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20 CENTURY
TH

TRADITIONAL
MUSIC
With Spain and then America having colonized
the Philippines from the early 1500s to the late
1800s, it was avoidable that Western
compositional techniques found their way into the
works of Filipino composers.

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Yet even 20th century Filipino
composers have managed to retain
some traditional elements. In their
assimilation of Western techniques.
In fact. They have become the
strongest of the foundation of what
we now know as Philippine music

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 Philippine
Contemporary
Composers Who
Used Traditional
Styles​
 FRANCISCO B.
BUENCAMINO SR.
Nov 5, 1883

Bulacan

He studied music composition and

harmony at Lyceo de Manila
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 FRANCISCO B.
BUENCAMINO SR.

He taught at the Ateneo de Manila

and Centro Escolar de Senoritas
whose conservatory of music he
founded
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 FRANCISCO B.
BUENCAMINO SR.
He also created the Buencamino
Music Academy in 1930 where
Nicanor Abelardo was one of his
students.

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 FRANCISCO B.
BUENCAMINO SR.

Expanding his career, he ventured into

musical directing, scoring, and
composing film music, for example,
Sampaguita Pictures, LVN Excelsior.
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 FRANCISCO B.
BUENCAMINO SR.

Many of these piano words have

become a staple part. Philippine
repertoire of today's young students.
Especially in Mayon, Larawan and
Maligayang Bati 16
FRANCISCO B.
BUENCAMINO SR.
He also wrote several Zarzuelas and
Kundimans. He passed away on
October 16, 1952, after which the
Posthumous Award honored him with
the title of Outstanding Composer.
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FRANCISCO S.
SANTIAGO
January 29, 1889
Sta. Maria Bulacan
Father of Kundiman
Triumvirate of Filipino Composers
American Conservatory of Music in
Chicago (obtained doctorate in 1925)
His music is in Romantic style
incorporating western forms and
techniques with folk materials. 19
FRANCISCO S.
SANTIAGO

He composed several works such

as kundiman, symphonies, piano
concerti, and other music pieces
for piano, violin, and voice
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FRANCISCO S.
SANTIAGO

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