Philippine Music

• ph is known to have versatile and lots of musicality bc of influence from colonizers and bc of geographical differences

• Manner of speaking and way of speaking affects music — geographical differences

• In every island here are different stories and cultures

What is life without music?

• monotonous

• Boring

• Lifeless

• Music is part of lives

Phiippine music

• belongs to east but absorbed western cultural influences

• Consists of indigenous and hispanic influence nd american and transnational

  • Hisanic — influenced by Church and Catholic music

  • AMerican — braodway, baudeville,

  • Transnational - pop songs, other asian music, kpop, jpop, etc

• Shaped by cross-cultural ontacts with Western and non-western traditions

• Folk music, indigenous music, sounds

Indigenous and islamic traditions and transformations

Where are songs used

• Life cycle events

  • courtship a marraige

  • Birth ad death

  • Describing the life of people

• Occupational songs

  • Done during work, decribin work

  • Rice farming and haravesting cycle

  • Ex. Magtanim ay di biro

  • Sung when doing chores

• Ritual

  • Done during ritual

  • Thanksgiving

  • Victory

  • Healing

  • Blessing a a new house

  • Seeking special favors

Epic songs

• may be chanted at weddings and gatherings to entertain guests or evening entertainment for visitiors

• Lasts one or more nights

• Descibes the lives of heroes and gods

Hispanic traditions and transformation

• importance plays by religous orders abd music

• Music belief - most powerful ways to win the spirit of the people and make them understand Christian beliefs

• The friars were given special musical training in Span before coming to the Ph

Syncretism

• manner of combining different beliefs and practices and oresenting it into one

• Ex. Belief of rituals mixed with Catholicism

Syncretism of music and indigenous culture

• translation of liturgical and relgiious songs into local language

• Latin into spanish into filipino

• Using the same template of local songs but about the life of Jesus

• Ex. Pabasa, ati-atihan festival

  • “Sieta de palabras” - seven last words

  • Pabasa is a chant

New Traditions

• pastores - carolers seranade households (like harana but holy)

• Pabasa - chanting of the pasyon

  • Versified stories of the life and Passion of Jesus

• Flores de mayo

  • Teaching about the life of Jesus

  • Focuses on the role of Mama Mary in the life of Jesus

  • First part — cathecism

  • Santacrusan - end of flores de mayo

• Sinakulo

  • Passion play stage during holy week

Music education

• diff private companies na who promote music classes

• Check ppt ni miss for the music education ppt

• Not only singing and uttering sound by also with listening

• Vocalization and playing of intrument

• Focus on voice and piano

• Acapella

Ph revolution and music

• 1896 — used to represent strong patriatoic sentiment of revolutionaries

• Funeral marches

• Marcha national - national anthem

American traditions and transformations

New curriculum

• in elem in public schools — music was added in elem and soon highschool

• Music conservatories and colleges were stablished at the tertiary level

• Gradutates from these institutions included the first generatuib of Filipino composers whose words were written in western idioms and forms

Bodabil Tradition

• Komedya

• New emergence of sarzuela

• Brpugh in from outside the ph to bring entertainment

• Introduced classical jazz

• Combo of band, acting, singing

• Comedy and drama with music

• Mas maalala ang music rather than words

Japanese occupation

• Focused on asian arts and music

• Either focus on ur own culture or in asian art

• Walang american or spanish

• Any ally nations or jazz was rprohibited — bawal maging masaya conservative lang daw

• Held conferences and lectures about oriental music to divert loyalties of FIlos away from Americans

• Enocuraged creation nd performance in music with native themes through contests

• Music making remainded a popular pastime in homes

• Families and and plyaed musical intruments to entertain themselves

Music period of republics

• freedom!!

• After ww2 — new musical organizations

• 1966 music education law — teaching of music in public school

• Radio, televsion and cinema — how filos learned foreign songs and dances

Marcos regime

• mas nabigyan buhay ang art bc imelda likes Philippine art

  • Nagpauso at nagpakilala ng terno

• May numerous bombings and protests

• Attempt to kill resistance and prevent the spread of radical and orogressive thoughts

• Limited public’s access to media and news

• Period where arts particularly music fourished

• Music and entertainment flourished kase bawak magsulat at bawak magreklamo s ikanta nalang natin

• Encourage the use of song generated of the positie feelings of the public to cover up the real things happening in the h

• Music was used as protest and used to draw attention to national issues

Fifth republic

• NCAA

• New policies in culture that will be more democratic

• Start of experimentation in writing

• Classical music — composers during this period continued to write in western tradition

Contemporary period

• Song leaning owards experimentation

• Broadway and west-end musiclas

• And pop music

• Establishment of OPM - contemporary art talaga — pop music in filo version

• Local rock — mga banda (Band mom and dad like)

• Alt rock, eheads, parokya ni edgar, gloc9

• Practice gloabl rock and pop but the content is FIlipino

• Offering filo artists oppotunities