Part 2

• Col. Antonio Buenaventura


  Promoted Philippine music by extensively using folk materials in his works
• Col. Antonio Buenaventura


  Recorded folk and dance music around the country with Ramon Tolentino and National Artist for Dance Francisca Reyes Aquino
• Rodolfo S. Cornejo


  The first Filipino composer who received an honorary degree from a government recognized music school in the United States
• Rodolfo S. Cornejo


  • Known for his "pianistic and compositional talent" by extemporizing a piano composition at the spur of the moment
• De Leon


  • Known as a nationalist composer who expressed the Philippines' cultural identity through his compositions
• De Leon was born on May 1, 1912 in Barrio Papaya (now General Tinio) in Penaranda, Nueva Ecija
• De Leon is a writer and the chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
• Lucio San Pedro


  Known as a "romantic nationalist"
• Lucio San Pedro


  • Incorporated Philippine folk elements in his compositions with Western forms and harmony
  • His chords have a rich expressive tonality, as represented in his well-loved Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, a lullaby melody sung by his mother
• Rosendo Santos Jr.


  Listed in the "New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians"
• Rosendo Santos Jr.


  • A prolific composer, his works include concerti, sonatas, symphonies, symphonic poems, five operas in Philippine dialect, numerous band overtures, and more than 200 marches
  • He wrote 50 masses in Latin and 20 in English
  • He has more than 1,000 musical compositions in the library of the University of the Philippines
• Alfredo Buenaventura


  Among the few composers in the Philippines who composed five full-length operas
• Alfredo Buenaventura


  • Created a combination of contemporary and conventional, kept his melodies simple and understandable, but he used contemporary harmonies to suit the intellectuals
• Ryan Cayabyab


  A contemporary composer and conductor and spans both popular and classical worlds with his pop, ballads, operas, zarzuela, orchestral, and choral compositions
• Col. Antonio Buenaventura works are Minuet

  mindanao sketches

  pandanggo sa ilaw
• Rodolfo Cornejo Works are ibong adarna

  malakas at maganda(overture)
• First Composition of Cornejo at the age of 10 is Glissando Waltz
• Lucio San Pedro compositions are ugoy sa duyan

  suite pastoral

  lahing kayumanggi
• Alfredo Buenaventura Compositions are maria makiling

  prinsesa urduha

  diego silang
• Ryan P Cayabyab Compositions are kay ganda ng ating musika

  zarzuela alikabok

  opera spollarium