S O N 1:

LES

TRADITIONAL
COMPOSERS
 Introd uct i o n

• Having been colonized by Spain and the United States for almost
three centuries, it was inevitable that Western compositional
techniques found their way into the works of Filipino composers.
• However, many 20th century Filipino composers have managed to
retain traditional elements and integrated them with Western
techniques. In fact, these composers were known to have laid the
foundations of what we now know as Philippine music.
• Among the major Philippine contemporary composers are Francisco
Santiago, Nicanor Abelardo, Antonio Molina, Lucio San Pedro,
Rosendo Santos Jr., Alfredo Buenaventura, and Ryan Cayabyab.
Francisco Santiago

• HE IS CONSIDERED AS THE
“FATHER OF KUNDIMAN”
• HE FINISHED HIS MUSIC
SPECIALIZATION AT THE
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY
OF MUSIC IN CHICAGO
WHERE HE OBTAINED HIS
DOCTORATE DEGREE IN
1924.
• HE WAS ALSO A MUSICAL
DIRECTOR FOR FILMS.
Francisco Santiago

AMONG HIS FAMOUS WORKS ARE THE

FOLLOWING:
• PAKIUSAP
• MADALING ARAW
• SAKALI MAN
• PILIPINAS KONG MAHAL
• HIBIK NG PILIPINAS
• ANO KAYA ANG KAPALARAN, AND
• KUNDIMAN (ANAK DALITA). THIS
PIECE WAS SUNG BEFORE THE ROYAL
COURT OF SPAIN UPON THE REQUEST
OF KING ALFONSO II.
Francisco Santiago

AMONG THE FILMS UNDER HIS

MUSICAL SUPERVISION WERE
“KUNDIMAN”, “LERON LERON SINTA”,
“MADALING ARAW”, “MANILEÑA”, AND
THE MOVIE INSPIRED BY HIS OWN
COMPOSITION, “PAKIUSAP”. HE
BECAME THE FIRST FILIPINO DIRECTOR
OF THE UP CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
Pilipinas kong
mahal
Nicanor abelardo

• HE STUDIED MUSIC AT THE

CHICAGO MUSIC COLLEGE AND
WAS INFLUENCED BY THE MUSICAL
STYLES OF THE SERIALIST/SECOND
VIENNESE SCHOOL AND POST-
ROMANTIC EUROPEAN
COMPOSERS.
• ABELARDO, TOGETHER WITH
FRANCISCO SANTIAGO ELEVATED
THE STATUS OF THE KUNDIMAN
INTO AN ART SONG STATUS
EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF THE
Nicanor abelardo

HIS BEST-KNOWN COMPOSITIONS

INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
MUTYA NG PASIG
NASAAN KA IROG
BITUING MARIKIT
IKAW RIN
KUNDIMAN NG LUHA
PAHIMAKAS
KUNG HINDI MAN
PAHIWATIG CAVATINA FOR VIOLIN AND
PIANO, FIRST NOCTURNE FOR PIANO,
AND MAGBALIK KA HIRANG
mutya ng pasig
antonio molina

• HE IS THE FIRST NATIONAL ARTIST

FOR MUSIC
• HE BEGAN HIS MUSIC CAREER AS
AN ORCHESTRAL SOLOIST AT THE
MANILA GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
• HE SERVED AS DEAN OF THE
CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY,
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC FROM
1948 TO 1970.
• HE WAS ALSO A FACULTY MEMBER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
PHILIPPINES’ CONSERVATORY (NOW
antonio molina
• MOLINA WAS A PRODUCT OF BOTH
THE ROMANTIC AND IMPRESSIONIST
SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT.
• HE WAS FASCINATED BY THE
DYNAMICS AND HARMONIES OF
DEBUSSY BUT RETAINED MUCH OF
THE ROMANTIC STYLE IN HIS MELODY.
• MOLINA WROTE SEVERAL
COMPOSITIONS FOR PIANO, VIOLIN,
AND VOICE AS WELL AS A SPANISH-
STYLE OPERA FORM KNOWN AS THE
ZARZUELA.
• HE RECEIVED THE NATIONAL ARTIST
FOR MUSIC AWARD IN 1973. HE
antonio molina

• HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS

POIGNANTLY ROMANTIC SERENADE
FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO “HATINGGABI”.
SUBSEQUENT TRANSCRIPTIONS OF
THIS PIECE WERE WRITTEN FOR THE
CELLO, FLUTE, PIANO, AND GUITAR.
OTHER WORKS BY MOLINA INCLUDE:
-ORCHESTRAL MUSIC - MISA ANTONIANA
GRAND FESTIVAL MASS, ANG BATINGAW,
KUNDIMAN-KUNDANGAN;
-CHAMBER MUSIC - STRING QUARTET,
KUNG SA IYONG GUNITA,
PANDANGGUHAN; AND
lucio san pedro

• HE WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 11,

1913 IN ANGONO, RIZAL.
• SINCE HIS ELEMENTARY DAYS, HE
STARTED COMPOSING.
• HE STUDIED THE BANJO WHICH
INSPIRED HIM TO BECOME A
SERIOUS MUSICIAN. HE LATER
PURSUED HIS MUSIC DEGREE AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
PHILIPPINES AND AT THE JUILLIARD
SCHOOL IN NEW YORK, USA.
lucio san pedro

• HE BECAME A PROFESSOR OF
THEORY AND COMPOSITION AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES’
COLLEGE OF MUSIC UP UNTIL HIS
RETIREMENT IN 1978.  SAN
PEDRO IS KNOWN AS A “ROMANTIC
NATIONALIST.”
• HE INCORPORATED PHILIPPINE
FOLK ELEMENTS IN HIS
COMPOSITIONS WITH WESTERN
FORMS AND HARMONY.
lucio san pedro

• HE WAS DECLARED NATIONAL

ARTIST FOR MUSIC IN 1991 AND
PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 31,
2002.
ryan cayabyab

• CIPRIANO “RYAN” CAYABYAB, ALSO

KNOWN AS “MR. C”, IS A POPULAR
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER WHO
ALSO HAS CLASSICAL
COMPOSITIONS TO HIS CREDIT,
SUCH AS “MISA” AND “MISA 2000”,
“FOUR POEMS FOR SOPRANO AND
PIANO”, AND “TE DEUM”.
ryan cayabyab

• HE WAS BORN ON MAY 4, 1954 IN

MANILA.
• OBTAINED HIS BACHELOR OF MUSIC
DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
PHILIPPINES, COLLEGE OF MUSIC IN
1983. AFTER WHICH, HE BECAME A
FACULTY MEMBER FOR
COMPOSITION AT THE SAME
UNIVERSITY.
• ALSO SERVED AS THE EXECUTIVE
AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE
SAN MIGUEL FOUNDATION FOR THE
PERFORMING ARTS
ryan cayabyab

• AT PRESENT, HE CONTINUES TO BE
A SOUGHT-AFTER
PROFESSOR/LECTURER, MUSICAL
DIRECTOR, COMPOSER, ARRANGER,
AND CONDUCTOR IN THE PHILIPPINE
CONCERT AND RECORDING SCENES
• HE WAS NAMED NATIONAL ARTIST
FOR MUSIC IN 2018.
ryan cayabyab

• HIS COMPOSITIONAL STYLE MAKES

MUCH USE OF A VARIETY OF
INFLUENCES - FROM
-Moroccan musical cultures
-Jazz
-African-American Spirituals and
Gospel music
-European Neo-ClassicisM
-Music for Films
-American Broadway musicales
- Philippine indigenous chants.
ryan cayabyab

• AMONG HIS NUMEROUS

COMPOSITIONS ARE THE AWARD?
WINNING
-“KAY GANDA NG ATING MUSIKA”
(1978)
-PARAISO (1991)
-AS WELL AS THE MODERN ZARZUELA
“ALIKABOK” (2003), AND
-THE MUSICAL “LORENZO” – BASED
ON THE LIFE OF ST. LORENZO RUIZ
(2013).
ryan cayabyab

• THE OPERA SPOLIARIUM WITH

LIBRETTO BY FIDES CUYUGAN-
ASENSIO, AND A VARIETY OF
CHORAL PIECES AND SONG CYCLES
OF WERE ALSO AMONG HIS
MASTERPIECES.
• HE ALSO PRODUCED SEVERAL
RECORDINGS, INCLUDING THE
MEMORABLE ALBUM “ONE” AND
SUBSEQUENTLY, “ONE CHRISTMAS”,
AND “ONE MORE”, ALL OF WHICH
WERE ONE?MAN VOCAL JAZZ A
ryan cayabyab

RYAN CAYABYAB SONGS

• KUMUKUTIKUTITAP
• KAILAN
• NAIS KO
• KAY GANDA NG ATING MUSIKA
• TUWING UMUULAN AT KAPILING KA
• DA COCONUT NUT
• BETTER WORLD
• IDUYAN MO
• MAMANG KUTSERO
• PARAISO
 W ha t i s i t
• Ryan Cayabyab - spans both popular and classical worlds
with his popular ballads, musical plays, operas, ballet,
zarzuela, orchestral, and choral compositions.
• Lucio San Pedro -is known as a “romantic nationalist.” He
incorporated Philippine folk elements in his compositions
with Western forms and harmony. His chords have a rich
expressive tonality, as represented in his well-loved “Sa
Ugoy ng Duyan”, a lullaby melody sung by his mother
• Nicanor Abelardo - contributed in elevating the Kundiman as
an Art Song form.
• Francisco Santiago - is considered as the “Father of
Kundiman”.
• Antonio Molina - came to be known as the “Father of
Philippine Impressionist Music”.
 ME NA!
TI

THE END... CHARR

ACTIVIT
Y TIME!
 kakanta o
tutula

ACTIVITY 1:
OP T IO NS , OP T IO NS ,
OPTIONS.
 di re ct i o n 1:

si ngal i ng!

CHO O S E 1 S O NG F R O M T H E
COMPOSITIONS O F O U R TR A D IT IO N A L
COMPOSERS. IT S H O U L D B E PE R F OR M
PER GROUP
 di re ct i o n 2:

tul aa n mo !

IF YOU THINK YOU A R E N O T IN T O S IN G IN G ,

THIS OPT IO N M IG H T B E F O R Y O U .
COMPOSE A POE M W IT H 3 T O 4 S T A N Z A S
THAT IS AL L A B O U T T R A D IT IO N A L M U S IC.
IT SHOULD BE IN F ILIP IN O , W R IT E IT O N A
S H E E T OF PAP E R A N D R E C IT E IT IN F R O N T
O F T H E C L AS S .