History of Music in Philippines
The Philippine music is performance arts composed in different genres and methods. The Philippines music is a combination of European, Asi...
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The
Philippine music is performance arts composed in different genres and methods.
The Philippines music is a combination of European, Asia, American, Indigenous
and Latin American influences.
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The
Philippine gong music is divided into two forms; one as the flat gong which is
popularly known as gangsa and it is played by the groups in the Cordillera area
of the bossed gongs played among the Islam and animist groups in the Southern
Philippines.
The
word Kulintang means a racked gong chime instrument played in the southern
islands of the Philippines, along with its diversity accompanying bands.
Diverse orchestras have diverse patterns of playing the kulintang. There are
two main groups seemed to stand-out in kulintang music and these are the
Maguindanaon and the Maranaw. The kulintang instrument itself has its history
either in the introduction of gongs to the Southeast Asia from China before the
10th century CE, ore more likely to the insertion of bossed gong
chimes from Java in the 15th century.
However
the kulintang band is the highly advanced type of music before the late 16th
century and the legacy of hispanization in the Philippine archipelago.
The
custom of the kulintang band music itself is a local one, predating the making
of borders between the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. It surpasses
religious, with animist and Christian ethnic groups in Borneo, Sulawesi and
Flores playing kulintang; and also the Muslim groups playing the same genre of
music in Mindanao, Palawan and the Sulu archipelago. This is distantly linked
to the Gamelan music groups of Java and Bali, as well as the musical types in
Mainland Southeast Asia, primarily because of the usage of the same bossed
racked gong chimes that play both melodically and percussive.
Popular
traditional composers include the National Artist for Music known as Luico San
Pedro, who composed the renowned Sa Ugoy ng Duvan that recalls about the loving
touch of mother to her child and another popular composer who is known as patriotic
composer Alfredo Buenaventura.
