Music: Contemporary Arts

MUSIC
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
MUSIC
KUNDIMAN
• KUNDIMAN IS A MUSICAL FORM THAT IS A PRODUCT OF HISPANIC COLONIZATION.
• KUNDIMAN IS AN ART SONG THAT SIGNIFIES LOVE AND AFFECTION TO SOMEONE
• KUNDIMAN LIKE MANY ART SONGS IS PERFORMED AS A SOLO VOCAL COMPOSITION
COMBINED WITH AN INSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT TO ACHIEVE MUSICAL
HARMONY
• DESCRIBED ALSO AS HIGHLY EMOTIONAL THAT EXPRESSES PERSONAL SORROW; IT CAN

BE ABOUT LOVE OR PATRIOTISM.
KUNDIMAN
•THE LYRICS OF THE TRADITIONAL KUNDIMAN MADE USE OF OLD
AND ARCHAIC TAGALOG.
•THE MELODY IS OFTEN SMOOTH FLOWING AND GENTLE RHYTHM
•CONTEMPORARY KUNDIMAN IS OFTEN MODERN ITERATION OF
THE ART FORM USING MORE CONTEMPORARY VERNACULAR AND
ACCOMPANIED BY ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS
KUNDIMAN
•KUNDIMAN IS OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR THE HARANA, WHICH IS
ANOTHER HISPANIC INFLUENCED MUSICAL FORM
•THE HARANA IS A TRADITIONAL COURTSHIP RITUAL IN THE
PHILIPPINES WHEREIN A SUITOR SERENADES HIS OBJECT OF
AFFECTION. ALMOST ANY LOVE SONG CAN BE SUNG DURING THE
HARANA, INCLUDING KUNDIMAN SONGS.
BALLAD
• BALLAD IS TRADITIONALLY A SONG THAT TELLS OF AN EVENT IN A COMMUNITY.

• THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES OF TRADITIONAL BALLADS THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES
• IDANGDANG OF BUKIDNON
• LIYANGKIT PARANG SABIL OF TAUSUG
• COMPOSO OF THE HILIGAYNON
BALLAD
•BALLAD HAS BEEN APPLIED TO DESCRIBE LOVE SONGS AND A
BALLADEER IS AN ARTIST WHOSE SET OF SONGS ARE PRIMARILY
ROMANTIC SONGS
•NOTABLE FILIPINO CONTEMPORARY BALLAD COMPOSERS ARE
ERNANI CUENCO AND JOSE MARI CHAN
CHAMBER MUSIC
•CHAMBER MUSIC IS A FORM OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
COMPOSED BY A SMALL ENSEMBLE WHEREIN EACH PART IS
PLAYED BY ONE PLAYER AS OPPOSED TO AN ORCHESTRA WHERE A
PART IS PERFORMED BY A GROUP OF THREE TO EIGHT MUSICIANS
•FILIPINO ARTIST WHO STUDIED ABROAD ARE: DR. FRANCISCO
SANTIAGO AND NICANOR ABELARDO
EXAMPLE:
•ARLENE CHONGSON’S LUDUYAN I AND II

•CONRADO DEL ROSARIOS’S YUGTO FUR KAMMER
ENSEMBLE
POPULAR CHAMBER
•CLARION CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

•STRING MINSTRELS
CHORAL MUSIC
•CHORAL MUSIC IS A MUSICAL COMPOSITION INTENDED TO BE

PERFORMED BY A GROUP OF SINGERS, CALLED A CHOIR.
•THE CHOIR IS ARRANGED ACCORDING TO VOICE CATEGORIES
SUCH AS SOPRANO, ALTO, TENOR, AND BASS
CHORAL MUSIC
• MOST WELL KNOWN SCHOOL CHOIR IS THE CHORAL GROUP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
PHILIPPINES :
• THE PHILIPPINE MADRIGAL SINGERS OF THE PHILIPPINES OR THE MADZ
• ONE OF THE MOST AWARDED CHORAL GROUPS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND IN THE
WHOLE WORLD
• THEY HAVE BEEN TAUGHT AND TRAINED BY:
• EUDENICE PALARUAN
• ROBERT DELGADO
• FIDEL CALALANG
INTERNALTIONALLY RECOGNIZE CHORAL GROUP IN THE
PHILIPPINES:
• SAMIWENG SINGERS OF LAOAG ILOCOS

• UNIVERSITY OF VISAYAS CHORAL
• ZAMBOANGA HERMOSA CHOIR
LITURGICAL MUSIC
• LITURGICAL MUSIC ARE SONGS INTENDED FOR CHRISTIAN CHURCH

SERVICES.
• IT’S EARLY FORM WAS INSPIRED BY JEWISH CHANTS DURING THEIR
RELIGIOUS RITUALS
MUSICIANS ADAPTED LITURGICAL MUSIC:
•FRANCISCO FELICIANO-AS SEEN IN HIS WORK “ MASS OF SAINT

ANDREW”
•RYAN CAYABYAB WITH HIS WORK “MISA AND
•GARY VALENCIANO - THE PRAISE AND GOSPEL SONGS
OPERA
• OPERA IS A COMBINATION OF BOTH MUSIC AND THEATER.
• IT IS A SUNG DRAMA THAT ENTAILS COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS OF SINGERS,
DANCERS, COMPOSERS, CHOREOGRAPHERS ETC.
• ONE TYPE OF SONG FOUND IN AN OPERA IS THE ARIA WHICH ARE SONGS
SUNG IN SOLO THAT PORTRAYS THE CHARACTER’S EMOTIONAL STATE
EXAMPLES:
• FELIPE PADILLA’S NOLI ME TANGERE, THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH FILIPINO OPERA
• REYNALDO T. PAGUIO
• FIDES ASENSIO’S- MAYO BISPERAS NG LIWANAG WHICH WAS BASED ON A STORY BY
NICK JOAQUIN
• NOTABLE FILIPINO OPERA SINGERS INCLUDE---- JOVITA FUENTES, THE FIRST FILIPINA TO
BE RECOGNIZED AS A NATIONAL ARTIST FOR MUSIC AND THE FEMALE SOPRANO
RACHELLE GERODIAS.
POP MUSIC
•POPULAR MUSIC OR POP MUSIC IS USED TO DESCRIBE MUSIC
THAT IS READILY AVAILABLE TO THE BROAD POPULACE.
•IT IS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT ENCOMPASSES A MULTITUDE OF
DIFFERENT GENRE OF MUSIC SUCH AS RNB, RAP, ROCK, HIP HOP,
DANCE ETC.
POP MUSIC
•MANY OF THE POP MUSIC PLAYED IN THE PHILIPPINES ARE

WESTERN IMPORTS WHICH BECOMES A STRONG
INFLUENCE TO MANY CONTEMPORARY SINGERS AND
ARTISTS
EXAMPLES:
•FRED PANOPIO- “OH ANG BABAE

•YOYOY VILLAME- MAG-EKSARSAYS TAYO TUWING UMAGA
PINOY POP OR FILIPINO POP
• CAME ABOUT WHEN FILIPINO MUSICIANS WANTED TO CREATE MUSICIANS WANTED TO
CREATE MUSIC THAT THEY CAN CALL THEIR OWN.
• THESE COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS FOCUSED ON THE YOUTH FOR SUPPORT AND GAVE
BIRTH TO EARLY PINOY ROCK.
• ANG HIMIG NATIN- BY THE JUAN DE LA CRUZ BAND
PINOY FOLK MUSIC- IS A GENRE OF PINOY POP WHEREIN ARTISTS CREATE SONGS
SIMILAR TO THE WESTERN FOLK SINGERS SUCH AS BOB DYLAN AND PETER, PAUL AND
MARY.
PROTEST SONGS
• PROTEST SONGS ARE SONGS THAT BRING TO LIGHT INJUSTICES AND
INEQUALITY IN SOCIETY
• IT SEEKS TO INSPIRE NATIONALISM AND HEROISM FROM ITS LISTENERS. IT
CAN COME IN MANY MUSICAL FORMS AND GENRE SUCH AS KUNDIMAN AS
SEEN IN “BAYAN KO” – WAS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN JOSE CORAZON
DE JESUS

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MUSIC

• DESCRIBED ALSO AS HIGHLY EMOTIONAL THAT EXPRESSES PERSONAL SORROW; IT CAN

• BALLAD IS TRADITIONALLY A SONG THAT TELLS OF AN EVENT IN A COMMUNITY.

•ARLENE CHONGSON’S LUDUYAN I AND II

•CLARION CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

•CHORAL MUSIC IS A MUSICAL COMPOSITION INTENDED TO BE

• SAMIWENG SINGERS OF LAOAG ILOCOS

• LITURGICAL MUSIC ARE SONGS INTENDED FOR CHRISTIAN CHURCH

•FRANCISCO FELICIANO-AS SEEN IN HIS WORK “ MASS OF SAINT

•MANY OF THE POP MUSIC PLAYED IN THE PHILIPPINES ARE

•FRED PANOPIO- “OH ANG BABAE

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