MUSIC

• Ati-Atihan festival


  A festival from Kalibo, Aklan that falls on the third week of January
• Kadayawan


  A festival held in the City of Davao which is celebrated during the third week of August
• Madayaw


  A warm and friendly greeting used to explain a thing that is valuable, superior, beautiful, good or profitable
• Kadayawan in the Mandaya dialect


  Anything that brings fortune, a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest and the serenity of living
• Mount Apo


  Where the Davao's ethnic tribes reside
• Moriones Festival


  A folk religious event held annually during holy week in Marinduque
• Morion


  The visor of the helmet that is associated with the armor of Roman soldiers
• Moriones


  The local inhabitants who dress up in costumes and masks of Roman soldiers during biblical times
• Longinus


  The Roman centurion who pierced the side of the crucified Christ
• Sinulog Festival


  One of the grandest, most distinguished and most colorful in the Philippines, held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor the Santo Nino or the child Jesus
• Ibalong Festival


  Celebrated in the city of Legazpi in Albay during the second week of October
• Special attraction


  A costume and mask parade representing Bicol's ancient heroes
• Sublian Festival


  A two week long celebration that culminates on the 23rd of July
• Fiesta is a big part of Filipino culture. A fiesta goes on in both good and bad times. Each city and barrio has at least one local festival which is the feast of its patron saint so there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country.
• The major and most elaborate festival of all is the Christmas season which is much awaited and celebrated with much decorations that show the fun-loving side of Filipinos.
• Theatres such as the Komedya, Moro-moro and Arakyo were introduced to the native Filipinos by the Spaniards when they came to the Philippines
• Komedya


  Used by Spain as a method to spread Christianity in the country
• Types of komedya

  • Secular Komedya
  • Religious Komedya
• Secular Komedya


  Performed at local fiestas
• Moro-moro


  A type of secular komedya which portrays the clash between the muslims and christians as depicted by the forbidden romance between a prince and a princess
• tIbag/Arakyo


  A popular secular komedya which is featured during the annual santacruzan
• People in the story of Arakyo

  • Queen Elena
  • Emperor Constantino
• Religious Komedya


  Centers the life of Christ or of any saint and is usually seen during church celebrations
• Zarzuela


  A comical musical theatre that portrays typical Filipino stories and realities that the viewers can relate to
• Zarza


  The word that Zarzuela evolved from and is the common bramble on the European blackberry bush
• Sarawela


  Another term for Zarzuela, a lyric-dramatic genre that combines singing, dancing and dialogue
• Bodabil

  A stage show in the Philippines which became popular during the Japanese period
• Luis Borromeo

  • A Cebuano that returned from America and Canada and introduced 'classic jazz music in the country