Q3 W1 Music Flashcards
He is the founder of Central Escolar de Señoritas, conservatory of Music, as well as the Buencamino Music Academy in 1930.
Fransisco Buencamino
Many of his piano works have become staples in the Philippine Repertoire of today’s performers, especially Mayon, Larawan, and Maligayang Bati. He also ventured into musical direction and scoring for films, as well as composing several zarzuelas and kundiman.
Fransisco Buencamino
He is known as the ‘Father of the Kundiman” and belongs to the Triumvirate of the Filipino Composers along with Nicanor Abelardo and Antonio Molina.
Fransisco Santiago
He’s music was Romantic in style, incorporating Western forms and techniques with folk materials. Among his famous works are Pakiusap, Madaling Araw, and Kundiman (Anak Dalita). He became the first Filipino Director of the Conservatory of Music, UP.
Fransisco Santiago
The Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Abelardo Hall of the UP College of Music is named after him.
Nicanor Abelardo
His best-known compositions include Mutya ng Pasig, Nasaan Ka Irog, Cavatina for Violoncello, and Magbalik Ka Hirang.
Nicanor Abelardo
He was a product of both the Romantic and Impressionist Music. He was fascinated by the dynamics and harmonies of Debussy, but retained much of Romantic style in his melody. A characteristically impressionist work is his piano composition Malikmata (Transfiguration).
Antonio Molina
He is a contemporary composer and conductor who spans both popular and classical world with his pop music, ballads, operas, zarzuelas, orchestral arrangements, masses, psalms, and choral compositions.
Ryan Cayabyab
Among these are the award-winning Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika, the modern zarzuela Alikabok, and the Opera Spolarium with libretto by Fides Cuyugan-Asensio. His compositions are mostly of traditional Western influence.
Ryan Cayabyab
He was a composer, music teacher, conductor, and clarinetist. His name was closely identified with his works for the orchestra: as a conductor for opera, ballet, and dance recitals; and his music for movies.
Hilarion Rubio
He promoted Philippine music by extensively using folk materials in his works. He recorded folk and dance music around the country with Ramon Tolentino and National Artist for Dance Francisca Reyes Aquino. He restored the Philippine
Constabulary Band in 1945, which was considered ‘one of the best military bands in the world.’ He is a National Artist for Music.
Colonel Antonio Buenaventura
He was the researcher and official composer of the Philippine government in-exile, under President Manuel L. Quezon. He served as pianist-director of a USO concert unit that entertainment the Allied Forces during World War II. He later became the soloist of several orchestras, and eventually the musical director of the Sampaguita and Vera- Perez movie companies.
Rodolfo Cornejo
He is known as a nationalist composer who expressed the Philippines cultural identity through his compositions. He wrote piano compositions, hymns, marches, art songs, chamber music, symphonic poems, overtures, band music school songs, orchestral works, operas, kundiman, and zarzuelas. His two operas, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, are considered his masterpieces. He is a National Artist for Music.
Felipe de Leon Sr.
He 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.
Lucio San Pedro
Lullaby Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, his orchestral compositions Suite Pastorale, a musical description of his hometown Angono, and his nationalistic symphonic poem Lahing Kayumanggi. His other compositions include songs; pieces for violin, cello, and chorus; and works for the symphonic band. He is a National
Artist for Music.
Lucio San Pedro
