Music

• African Music


  interesting melodies and exciting rhythm
• purposes of African Music


  offering, communication, mark birth, marriages, puberty, death, protest, educate, entertain, heal the sick, lighten work load
• Yodeling


  quick change from normal voice to a falsetto
• Use of Different Sounds


  humming, shouting, whispering, imitation of animal sounds
• Call and Response


  leader chorus style, phrases sung by the leader are answered by the audience
• Participative music making


  Africans don't just listen, they perform
• Other forms of Expression


  accompanied by props, crafts, costumes, drama, sculpture, and dancing
• Samba


  From Brazil with West African Origin, lively, rhythmical movement
• Tango


  Latin-American dance originated in the lower class districts of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Cumbia


  from the coastal regions of Colombia and Panama, started as a courtship dance among Africans
• Rumba


  Afro-Cuban music, sensual ballroom dance performed in special occasions
• Cha-Cha-Cha


  Latin-American dance originated in Cuban, shuffling feet of dancers
• Reggae


  Jamaica, heavy emphasis on beats
• Pasadoble


  'double step', performed in Spain, usually performed during the entrance of a bull fight
• Lucio San Pedro


  02/11/1913 in Angono, Rizal

  1991 National Artist of the Philippines for Music

  -Orchestra: Violin Concerto in D minor 1948;Malakas at Maganda Overture; Hope and Ambition; Prelude and Fugue in D minor; The Devils Bridge

  -Band: Lahing Kayumanggi 1961; Dance of the Fairies; Triumphal March; Angonian March

  -Choir: Sa ugoy ng Duyan 1943; Lulay; In the Silence of the Night.
• Antonio Molina


  12/26/1894 in Quiapo

  First National Artist In Music

  -Orchestra: Misa Antonia Grand Festival Mass; Ang Batingaw; Kundiman-Kundangan.

  -Chamber: Hatnggabi; String Quartet; Kung sa Iyong Gunita; Pandangguhan.

  -Voice: Amihan; Awit ni Maria Clara; Larawan Nitong Pilipinas;

  -Theater: Ana Maria

  -Piano: Malikmata
• Rodolfo Cornejo


  a Conductor and Pianist

  05/15/1909 in Singalong, Manila

  -Choir: A la Juventud Filipina, 1934; Mass in F minor, 1936; The Miracle of Christ, 1947.

  -Voice and piano: Three Songs, 1939;  Beneath This Heart of Clay, 1959

  -Piano Solo: The season-Song Cycle of Clay, 1932; A La Juventud Filipina, 1935, Philippine Symphony No 1, 1939; Philippine Symphony No2, 1942; Philippine Symphony No3. 1947.

  -Orchestra: The Allies, 1943; oriental Fantasy, 1944; Ruby, 1964

  -Theater includes; Together (operetta), 1937; Ibong Adarna (Ballet), 1970, Bailes de Ayer ( ballet), 1974.