Music

• Traditional Philippine music reflects the ways of life, beliefs, and traditions of the rural folks
• Traditional music glorifies the beauty of nature and man's strong connection with his environment
• Traditional Philippine music has been influenced by other cultures due to intercultural meetings or colonization
• Forms of traditional Philippine music include:

  • Ethnic music such as Gongs & Kulintang
  • Hispanic music like Sarswela and Rondalla
• Kulintang is an ensemble composed of a set of eight gongs of graduated sizes arranged in a row
• Rondalla is an ensemble of stringed instruments like banduria, laud, octavina, guitar, and bajo
• Kundiman is an art song about the love of a man for a woman, giving a light and happy mood at the end of the song
• Balitao is an old Visayan folk song and dance where a man and woman engage in a humorous debate through song
• Musikang Bumbong is a bamboo band that includes piccolo, tuba, clarinets, flutes, and saxophones made of bamboo, played during festivals
• Korido is a metrical story sung with a guitar, examples include Biag ni Lam-ang and Florante at Laura
• Classifications of Philippine traditional musical instruments:

  • Sound-producing tools used for rituals like during harvest, courtship, and worship
  • Instruments include Kudlong, Kudyapi, Serongagandi, Sludoy, Afiw, and Balingbing
• Contemporary Philippine music refers to compositions adopting elements of 20th-century Western music and the latest trends in the entertainment industry
• Famous Filipino composers of contemporary music:

  • Alfredo Santos Buenaventura composed works based on epics, legends, and local heroes, with over 50 religious songs and hymns
  • Lucrecia Roces Kasilag composed over 250 works in various genres and was instrumental in the development of Philippine music and culture
• Ryan Cayabyab, also known as Mr. C:

  • Graduated from UP College of Music in music composition
  • Taught music theory and composition at UP
  • Won awards in the music industry and was the only Asian winner of the Onassis International Cultural Competition in Greece
  • Known for composing symphonic works, musicals, opera, popular songs, ballets, film scores, and more
• Ryan Cayabyab's works include:

  • Short symphonic works
  • Full-length Filipino musicals
  • Major opera
  • Scores of popular songs
  • Full-length ballets
  • Award-winning film and television scores
  • Solo and instrumental works
  • Orchestration of Filipino folk songs
  • Organized groups like the Ryan Cayabyab Singers and the Smokey Mountain
• The Kulintang includes:

    - Gandingan (a set of suspended gongs),

  
  

    - Agung (a tabular drum) and;

  
  

    - Babandil (a small gong).
• Sarsuwela – is a combination of melodrama. Songs and dances. Same with rondalla, sarsuwela was also introduced by the Spaniards. The rondalla serves as accompaniment of the sarsuwela.
• Rondalla – It is an ensemble of stringed instrument with the pick such as banduria, laud, octavina, guitar , and bajo(bass).
• Hispanic

  • sarsuwela

  • rondalla
• Instruments that are plucked – chordophones (a stringed instrument)
• Instruments that are stuck – idiophones (instruments whose own substance vibrates to produce sound) and membranophones (emit sound by the vibration of a stretched membrane; the prime examples are drums.)
• Instruments that are blown – aerophones (whether made of wood or bamboo)