ANTONINO

BUENAVEN
1904-1996
TURA
 THE
May 4, 1904

COMPOSER
Baliwag, Bulacan
Leocadia & Lucino (band leader)
UP: Dip in Teaching-Science & Compo
Composer, conductor, music director/teacher
Rizaliana Exconde
Order of National Artist
January 25, 1996 (aged 91)
 MUSICAL
JOURNEY
EDUCATIO WORK
N NS
• 19 yrs. old-finished 7th • PMA-Music Instructor/
grade (very sickly boy) Band Conductor in
Baguio for 3 yrs.
• UP Conservatory of
Music-met his friend/
• Director of Music
mentor Nicanor Abelardo School (San Pablo Music
Academy & UST
Conservatory of Music
• 1927-ROTC band
conductor & established
1st UP student orchestra • Organized PH Army
Band
CONTRIBUTIO
• Tone-poems, symphonic
band music/solo
instrument and university
hymns 03
• Propagation & dev't of
band music & tradition
• Travelled to gather
traditional folk music
• Bridge: earlier masters
of folk music & today's
generation
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Colonel Buenaventura stands as one of those
nationalistic artist of the 20th Century
Before World War II Mirrored in his music was the aspiration of a
nation wanting to be free and struggling to find
its own identity. Lolo Tony's first composition
was strongly influenced by American culture
but his acquired knowledge of indigenous
music grew into a strong desire to create a
distinct Philippine music. That music would
also help describe the Filipino, and in so
doing. also hopefully inspire them to
confidently navigate their own way towards a
uniquely Filipino vision and sense of
nationhood.
 STYLES &
TECHNIQUES
• Belongs to the school of neo-classisism &
neo-romanticism
• Fusion of Filipino Folk music materials and
Western compositional devices and norms

• Parallel fifths of chords and Major 7th

• Exotic syncopation
• Writing counterpoint in chromatic harmony

• Use of a chord built from a series of 6

overtones
 MINDANAO
Manobo tribe who duel in the hinterland of Bukidnon

01
SKETCHES 02

OFFERING TO THE GODS A VILLAGE FESTIVAL DANCE

OTHER WORKS
01 By the Hillside

02 Ode to the Republic

03 Pandanggo sa Ilaw

04 Twilight by the Sea

"A peaceful military
man whose chosen
THANK YOU
FOR
 SOURCES:
Musika Journal

The Life and Music of Col. Antonino R. Buenaventura

Our Outstanding Filipino Composers