Music in the Philippines since 1898

Rodolfo Cornejo

Best known for elevating the Philippine genre of the Kundiman into a western art-song form.

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Filipino Religious sister, composer, conductor and music teacher. Work comprises over three hundred compositions.

One of the first members of the League of Filipino Composers founded in 1955.

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Worked as an actor for silent film and appeared in “Ang Magpapawid” with Mary Walter, under a stage name.

Music written in a Western musical tradition, usually using an established form (for example a symphony).

Major works include The Season - Song Cycle (1932), A La Juventud Filipina (1935), Philippine Symphony No.

He was the moving spirit behind the Manila Chamber Music Society, of which he became director in 1921.

Generally in literate, technologically advanced societies dominated by urban culture

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“Father of Kundiman Art Song.”

Levi Celerio

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Francisco Santiago

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Of, relating to, or being a musical composition that is intermediate in style between classical and popular music.