Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Folk music musical instruments. The music of the Philippines' many Indigenous peoples are associated with the various occasions that shape life in indigenous communities, including day-to-day activities as well as major life-events, which typically include "birth, initiation and graduation ceremonies; courtship and marriage; death and funeral rites; hunting, fishing, planting and harvest ...
"The Music and Theater of the Filipino People" by R.C. Banas, from El Filipino: Revista mensual Vol I No. 9 (1926) "The Filipino Folk Song" by Percy Hill from the Philippine magazine, Vol. XXIII, no. 3, Philippine Education Co. Manila, 1926, p. 147 "El Indio Batangueno" by Wenceslao E. Retana, Manila, Tipo-Litografia de Chofre y Cia, 1888. p. 25
Magtanim ay 'Di Biro (transl. "Planting rice is not a joke", [1] [a] and known in its English title as Planting Rice) [1] is a popular Tagalog folk song composed by Felipe de León. [ 2 ] [ disputed (for: conflict with source cited in talk) – discuss ] The song tells of the struggles of farmers, how one must twist and bend to plant rice in ...
A version with English-Tagalog lyrics, recorded in 1964, was a hit in the United States and continues to be popular in Filipino communities on American soil. According to notes by Tom Spinosa who wrote one of the multiple sets of English lyrics, while Mike Velarde, Jr. owns the copyright, the song was written by Mike's father (also Mike Velarde ...
"Bayan Ko" (usually translated as "My Country"; Spanish: Nuestra patria, lit. 'Our Motherland') is one of the most recognizable patriotic songs of the Philippines.It was written in Spanish by the revolutionary general José Alejandrino in light of the Philippine–American War and subsequent American occupation, and translated into Tagalog some three decades later by the poet José Corazón de ...
The folk song was also included in the album Bahaghari of composer Ryan Cayabyab which was sung by Lea Salonga that also includes other Filipino traditional folk songs. [11] It was also performed by the University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers during the 116th anniversary of the First Philippine Republic. [12]
Filipino hip-hop is hip hop music performed by musicians of Filipino descent, both in the Philippines and overseas, especially by Filipino-Americans. The Philippines is known to have the first hip-hop music scene in Asia, emerging in the early 1980s, largely due to the country's historical connections with the United States where hip-hop ...
Versions of Filipino artists have made the song popular both in Visayan and Tagalog languages. [4] Leleng or Ling Ling was the original title of the song [5] which means Darling, Sweetheart, my lady or my dear in Sama Dilaut language. [6] In Philippine languages such as Visayan and Tagalog, the enclitic "ba" is used as a question marker. [7]