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The document provides an overview of the history of Philippine music. It discusses the three main influences: indigenous traditions, Spanish-European influenced traditions, and American influenced traditions.
28 mar 2011 · This book is a cultural history of the Philippines from 1898 to1998, outlining the role of music in defining nation and the influence of national-level politics on shaping musical expression. The work traces three themes that suffuse the musical articulation of nation and nationalism.
This book shows that the patterns of Philippine art music that emerged amongst Filipino communities during the Spanish colonial period were not jettisoned at the dawn of the American period.
Saysay Himig: An Anthology of Transcultural Filipino Music (1880–1941). Produced, supervised, and edited by Arwin Q. Tan. Quezon City: University of the Philippines College of Music, 2017. Three CDs (71, 51, and 77 minutes). 12 pages of notes. ₱ 1,000.00 ($19.50).
Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation is an absorbing and ambitious account of democracy in the twentieth-century Philippines that transports the reader well beyond the “musical renderings” of the title.
samplings of the various types of material of value to the music scholar in historical. chronology: 1500-1750; 1750-1900; 1900-1950; and 1950-present, with emphasis on the last period, when true musicological and ethnomusicological scholarship began.
It was also seen in the semi-classical music, which included stylized folk songs, zarzuela music, hymns and marches, band and rondalla music; as well as in the popular music consisting of music created by Filipinos bringing into play western pop forms and/or local music traditions.
