Music Flashcards
-Founded the Centro Escolar de Senoritas Conservatory of music in Paranaque (1931), as well as Buencamino Music Academy in 1930
-Many of his piano works have become staples in the Philippine repertoire of today’s performers, especially Mayon, larawan, and Maligayang Bati
ventured into musical direction and scoring for films as well as composing several zarzuela’s kundiman.
Francisco Buencamino
Is known as the “Father of the Kundiman”
became the first Filipino director of the conservatory of music university of the Philippines.
Santiago’s music was romantic, incorporating western forms and techniques with folk materials
Famous works:
his famous works are Pakiusap, Madaling Araw, and kundiman(anak-dalita).
Francisco Santiago
Although a 20th-century modern composer was also a composer of romantic style.
The tanghalang (main theatre) of the cultural center of the Philippines and the Abelardo hall of UP college of music is named after him.
Famous works:
Mutya ng Pasig, nasaan ka irog, Cavatina for Violoncello and Magbalik ka hirang.
Nicanor Abelardo
a composer, music teacher, conductor, and clarinetist.
Founder-president of the Philippine Band Masters’ Association.
Hilarion Rubio
product of both romantic and impressionist styles
became known as the “Father of Philippine impressionist music”
He was fascinated by the dynamics and harmonies of Debussy.
Famous works:
his piano composition Malikmata (transfiguration)
Antonio Molina
He is a national artist for music
promoted Philippine music by extensively using folk materials
recorded folk and dance music around the country with Ramon Tolentino and national artist for dance Francisca Reyes Aquino
restored the Philippine constabulary band in 1945, which is considered “one of the best military bands in the world
Col. Antonio Buenaventura
the researcher and official composer of the Philippine government in exile, under pres. Manuel L. Quezon
He serves as a pianist- director of the USO concert
He was the musical director of the Sampaguita and Vera Perez movie companies
Rodolfo Cornejo
known as a national composer who expressed the Philippine’s cultural identity through his compositions
He wrote piano compositions, hymns, marches, artworks, chamber music, symphonic poems, overtures, band music, school songs, orchestral works, operas, kundiman, zarzuelas
Famous works:
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
Felipe P. de Leon Sr.
known as a “romantic nationalist”
incorporated Philippine folk elements in his compositions with western forms and harmony
Famous works:
sa ugoy ng duyan, suite pastorale, Angono, Lahing Kayumanggi
Lucio San Pedro
a prolific composer whose works include concrete, sonata, symphonies, symphonic poems, five operas in a Philippine dialect, numerous band overtures, and over 200 marches
wrote 50 masses in Latin and 20 in English
Rosendo Santos Jr.
Holds the sole distinction among Filipino composers of having composed five full-length operas
combined contemporary and conventional styles, and contain melodies, that are simple and understandable while using contemporary harmonies that enhance their complexity
Alfredo Buenaventura
contemporary composer and conductor
spans both popular and classical worlds with his pop music, ballads, operas, zarzuelas, orchestral arrangements, masses, psalms, and choral compositions
compositions are mostly of traditional western influence
Ryan Cayabyab
composers retained the Filipino spirit by incorporating traditional music forms as well as indigenous rhythms and instruments in their compositions.
Contemporary Philippine New Music
was born in Manila on January 17,1917 and passed away in Manila on May 5,2004
His extensive research and fieldwork resulted in an immense collection of recorded taken from the remote mountain villages far- flung inland communities in the Philippines
Jose M. Maceda (1917-2004)
was born in San Fernando, La Union on August 31, 1918
known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions
Lucresia R. Kasilag (1918-2008)
