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A similar, but smaller instrument, with a shorter neck, is the bandurria, which also exists in 12- and 14-string versions. [1] Traditionally the laúd is used by folk string musical groups, such as Spanish or Filipino rondalla string ensembles, together with the guitar and the bandurria.
The Kutbayin Movement is a fresh, original art form that reimagines Baybayin, the ancient Filipino script and Kutkut art, into a vibrant, modern medium of expression. Spearheaded by renowned Filipino-American artist Fred DeAsis , this movement is more than just art—it’s a celebration of our heritage, a reconnection to our roots, and a bold ...
Letras y figuras (Spanish, "letters and figures") is a genre of painting pioneered by José Honorato Lozano during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. The art form is distinguished by the depiction of letters of the alphabet using a genre of painting that contoured shapes of human figures, animals, plants, and other objects called ...
The Filipino bandurria (also banduriya [7]) is used in an orchestra of plucked string instruments called rondalla. It is tuned a step lower than the Spanish version, that is, low to high: F# B E A D G. [ 8 ] Filipino bandurrias have been made with coconuts, [ 9 ] and as banjoleles with banjo bodies and goatskin soundboards.
José Honorato Lozano (1815 or 1821-1885) was a Filipino painter born in Manila.He is best known as the pioneering practitioner of the art form known as Letras y figuras, in which the letters of a patron's name is composed primarily by contoured arrangements of human figures surrounded by vignettes of scenes in Manila - an art form that may have derived loosely from illuminated manuscripts. [4]
Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument , used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, [1] Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese, Philippine, Brazilian, and Swiss music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar instrument called the crotalum.
A Spanish or Latin-sounding surname does not necessarily denote Spanish ancestry in the Philippines. The names were adopted when a Spanish naming system was implemented. After the Spanish conquest of the Philippine islands, many early Christianized Filipinos assumed surnames based on religious instruments or the names of saints.
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972) was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art," [2] he was the first-ever to be recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines. [3]