Music

• Classical music encompasses a broad period from the Medieval era to the present day, with various styles such as Baroque, Romantic, and Contemporary.
• Musical notes indicate the pitch, duration, loudness, and rhythm of musical sounds.
• Classical music refers to the music of the Western tradition that is generally considered to have been composed between 1750 and 1820.
• Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
• The term "music" comes from the Greek word mousike, which means "art of the Muses".
• Rock music emerged in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a distinct musical style in the form of rock and roll.
• Jazz originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Music is an art form that involves organized sound and silence.
• It can be performed by individuals or groups using instruments, voices, or both.
• The Classical Period is characterized by its use of instruments like the piano, violin, cello, flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, timpani, harpsichord, organ, and percussion.
• Instruments used during this time include the piano, violin, cello, flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, timpani, harpsichord, organ, and percussion.
• In classical music, composers often use specific forms like sonatas, symphonies, concertos, and operas.
• Music has played an important role in human culture throughout history, serving both practical and artistic purposes.
• The term "rock" was used by jazz musicians in the 1930s to describe their style of playing.
• The term "classical" was first used by critics who wanted to distinguish this type of music from popular or folk music.
• The staff is used to write down melodies using five lines that represent different pitches on an instrument or voice.
• During the Classical Period, composers focused on creating works that were more melodic than harmonic, using simple harmonies and clear tonal structures.
• Notation systems have evolved over time, including ancient Greek notation, medieval neumes, Renaissance mensural notation, modern Western notation, and non-Western notations like Indian classical music.
• Popular music has its roots in traditional folk music and includes genres like pop, country, jazz, blues, and R&B.
• Popular music is any type of music that has become well known or widely enjoyed by people outside its original culture.
• Bamboo


  Considered among early Filipinos as a spiritual connection from our physical world to the spiritual
• Playing bamboo instruments


  1. Blowing (aerophones)

  2. Shaking or hitting (idiophones)

  3. Plucking (Chordophones)
• Gabbang


  • A native xylophone in Sulu, a bamboo keyboard on top, constructed out of wood
  • Ordinarily, its main body is shaped like a coffin
  • Keys are struck with 2 mallets, each with a strip of rubber fastened to its underside
• Seronggagandi


  • A guitar-like made of bamboo, cut before one nod and after next
  • Two cords are slit loose side by side from the outer skin fibers of the bamboo itself and these are given tension by means of bridges
  • A hole is then cut into the bamboo just under the 2 cords, to serve as resounding holes
• Kudyapi


  • A two string plucked lute instrument made of wood which resembles and elongated guitar usually having 2 strings
  • It is held in the performer's lap like a guitar, the left hand slides back and forth along the melody string between the frets
  • The middle finger of the right hand plucks both the melody and drone strings with a rattan plectrum or kubit
• Suling


  • Made mainly of "tamiang" bamboo, a long, thin-walled bamboo tube
  • The mouthpiece of the suling is circled with a thin band made of rattan near a small hole
• Migrants/Christians - the people migrated from Luzon and Visayas were mostly Christians. Most of these settlers from Luzon and Visayas came to Mindanao during the Philippine Commonwealth under the Americans and in the 1950s and 1960s
• While Moro and Lumad music are often featured in Mindanao cultural presentations, the people who migrated from Luzon and Visayas brought along their own culture
• Even though they still have their own family ties to Luzon and Visayas, they are evolving into their own Mindanao identity
• Christian music contributors in Mindanao

  • Monsignor Rudy Villanueva of Cebu
  • Narcisa Fernandez of Davao City
  • Fr. Jose Maghinay who started his GSK songs (in the DOPIM area, -Dipolog, Ozamiz, Pagadian, Iligan, Marawi)
  • Fr. Lhem Naval (whose compositions are heavyily influenced by the Jesuits who trained him in Vianney way back in the late 1990s)
• Chavacano music in Christian Zamboanga has also flourished through the years
• Lumad


  A collective term for groups of indigenous people from Mindanao, which means "Native"
• Out of 6.5 million indigenous people in the Philippines, there are an estimate of 2.1 million Lumads in Mindanao
• Some Lumad groups


  • Subanen
  • B'laan
  • Mandaya
  • Higaonon
  • Banwaon
  • Talaanding
  • Mansaka
  • Manguanan
  • Dibabawon
  • Tagakaolo
  • Bagobo
  • Ubo
  • Tiruray
  • T'boli
  • Manobo
• Known as Non-Muslims and Non-Christians, the orientation of their cultural developments appears to be toward the muslim groups
• In most cases, language is the only differentiating element in the ethnic cultures, particularly among those which occupy adjacent and contiguous territory
• Most of the Indigenous Cultural Communities (I
• Mindanao speaks languages belonging to the Manobo family of languages, except the B’laan, T’boli, and Teduray. Aside from music for rituals and other social functions, Lumads have very rich folk songs that they use in their everyday lives. He instruments of the Lumads are all originally hand-made. Some are made of bamboo – carved, cut, sliced, made into smaller sticks; then drums are made of woods and animal skin.
• B'laan


  Group that inhabits some parts of South Cotabato, North Cotabato and Davao del Sur
• B'laan


  Combination of two words, "bila" that means house and "an" that means people