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Aside from the music of Indigenous peoples, another major Philippine folk music tradition is the "Spanish influenced" tradition associated with the Philippines' lowland majority peoples. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some of these musical forms, notably the metrical romances, were introduced during the Philippines' Spanish period of rule, and later adopted and ...
The neo-traditional genre in Filipino music is also gaining popularity, with artists such as Joey Ayala, Grace Nono, Bayang Barrios, Kadangyan, and Pinikpikan reaping relative commercial success while utilizing the traditional musical sounds of Indigenous peoples in the Philippines.
Butting – a bow with a single hemp 5 string, plucked with a small stick. Faglong – a two-stringed, lute-like instrument of the B'laan; made in 1997. Budlong – bamboo zither. Kolitong – a bamboo zither. Pas-ing – a two-stringed bamboo with a hole in the middle from Apayao people. Kudyapi – a two-stringed boat lute from Mindanao.
Kulintang (Indonesian: kolintang, [ 13 ] Malay: kulintangan[ 14 ]) is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have ...
Kundiman was the traditional means of serenade in the Philippines. The kundiman emerged as an art song at the end of the 19th century and by the early 20th century, its musical structure was formalised by Filipino composers such as Francisco Santiago and Nicanor Abelardo; they sought poetry for their lyrics, blending verse and music in equal parts.
The basis of Filipino music is the heritage of the country's many ethnic groups, some of whom have been influenced by other Asian and Western music (primarily Hispanic and American). Philippine folk music includes the chanting of epic poems such as Darangen and Hudhud ni Aliguyon, and singing the Harana serenade.
Ramón Pagayon Santos (born 25 February 1941) [1] is a Filipino composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator [2] known for being the Philippines' foremost living exponent of contemporary Filipino classical music, [1] [3] for work that expounds on "the aesthetic frameworks of Philippine and Southeast Asian artistic traditions," [3] and for finding new uses of indigenous Philippine instruments.
Lucrecia "King" Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La Union Philippines, the third of the six children of Marcial Kasilag Sr., a civil engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial, a violinist and a violin teacher. [2]: 87–88 She was Kasilag's first solfeggio teacher. The second was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish woman.