By: ANDREW GABIONZALNHS

He studied at Liceo de Manila

Founded the Centro Escolar de Señoritas, Conservatory of Music.

He also created the Buencamino Music Academy in 1930. Nicanor Abelardo was one ofhis students. Expanding his career, Buencamino also ventured into musical direction andscoring, composing music for Sampaguita Pictures, LVN, and Excelsior. He also wroteseveral zarzuelas and kundiman.

Father of KundimanBelongs to Triumvirate

Filipino ComposersAmerican Conservatory of

Music in ChicagoAlso obtained his Doctoral

Degree in MusicStyle: Romanticism,

Combination of Western forms and Folk MaterialsCompositions: Pakiusap,

Madaling Araw, Pilipinas kong Mahal

Developed a style that combined European romanticism withchromaticism. He belongs to the “Triumvirate of Filipino Composers” together withFrancisco Santiago and Antonio Molina. The Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (MainTheater) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Abelardo Hall of the College of Music, University of the Philippines are named after him. Antonio Molina came to be known as the “Father of Philippine Impressionist Music,” while composer Lucio San Pedro integrated indigenous musical forms, conventions, and instruments in his works inthe modern nationalistic style

The FIRST NATIONAL ARTIST FOR MUSIC“Father of Philippine Impressionist

Music,” Triumvirate Filipino Composer

He began his music career as an orchestral soloist

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 College) of Music.Style: Romantic and ImpressionismHe served as Dean of the Centro Escolar UniversityConservatory of Music from 1948 to 1970. He was also afaculty member of the University of the Philippines’Conservatory (now College) of Music.

Alfredo Buenaventura is among the few composers in the Philippines who composedfive full-length operas. He has his own set of ideas about music and composition. Hecreated a combination of contemporary and conventional, kept his melodies simple andunderstandable, but he used contemporary harmonies to suit the intellectuals.

Conservatory of Music, University of the Philippines(UP)“The first Filipino composer who received an honory degree from a government recognized music school in the United States.” He was known for his “pianistic and compositional talent” by extemporizing a piano composition at the spur of the moment. Felipe P. de Leon wrote piano compositions, hymns, marches, art songs, chamber music, symphonic poems, overtures, band muic, school songs, orchestral works, operas, kundimans and zarsuelas. He was known as a nationalist composer who expressed the Philippines' cultural identity through his compositions.

Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines May 1, 1912 in Barrio Papaya(now General Tinio) in Penaranda, Nueva EcijaDe Leon wrote piano compositions, hymns, marches, art songs, chamber music, symphonicpoems, overtures, band muic, school songs, orchestral works, operas, kundiman, andzarzuelas. Known as a nationalist composer who expressed the Philippines' cultural identity through his compositions.Two operas which are considered his masterpieces are the Noli Me Tangere (1957) and El Filibusterismo (1970). These two operas have been staged in the Philippines and abroad. He also wrote a march during the Japaneseregime entitled Tindig, Aking Inang Bayan, and another march Bagong Lipunan duringthe martial law. He wrote the popular Christmas carols Payapang Daigdig (1946

HILARION RUBIO Y FRANCISCO(1902 – 1985)

October 21, 1902 in Bacoor, Cavite. A composer, music teacher, conductor, and clarinetist, he created substantial works for the orchestra. He served as conductor for opera, ballet, dance recitals, and movie music.His first music lessons in music theory and clarinet were with Fr.Amando Buencamino who taught himsolfeggio and some musical instruments. When hewas eight years old, he was accepted as a member of the Bacoor Band as a clarinetist.Bulaklaken, Theme and Variations for Band, Dance ofthe Nymphs Rondo, Florente at Laura (overture), Halik, Danza, Unang Katas

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 richexpressive tonality, as represented in his well-loved Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, a lullaby melodysung by his mother. Rosendo Santos Jr. is listed in the “New Groves Dictionary ofMusic and Musicians.” A prolific composer, his works include concerti, sonatas,symphonies, symphonic poems, five operas in Philippine dialect, numerous band overtures,and more than 200 marches. He wrote 50 masses in Latin and 20 in English. He has morethan 1,000 musical compositions in the library of the University of the Philippines.

September 3, 1922 inCavite City. At age 11, he started composing band marches, instrumental, and vocal scores, as well as music for Catholicmasses.He studied in Cavite schools and later graduated from the UP Conservatory of Music where he eventually became a facultymember. He also pursued a Master of Music degree in theory and composition from the Catholic University of America inWashington, D.C. After which, he also served on its faculty as well as in West Virginia University and Howard University.awarded the “Philippine Composer of the Century” after receiving the “Composer of the Year Award” in Manila in 1956 and 1957Santos’ last musical work and only ballet composition, Melinda’s Masquerade, was performed in 1995, a year after his death. Santos passed away on November 4, 1994 in Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, USA.

Oct. 15, 1929He was drawn byhis fascination with trumpets and trombones and became one of its arrangers and conductors. He was one of twenty boy sopranos of Tiples at Sto. Domingo Church from where he received his first significant musical training. At that time, healso wrote his first composition, Danza.Some of his major works include the operas Maria Makiling (1961), Diego Silang (1966), Prinsesa Urduha (1969), cantatas Ang Ating Watawat (1965), Pasko ng Barangay (1964), three piano concertos subtitled Celebration, Determination, and Exultation,

Ryan Cayabyab is a popular contemporary composer whoalso has classical compositions to his credit, such as Misa,

Four Poems for Soprano and Piano, and Te Deum. His compositional style makes much use of syncopation, extendedchords, and chromatic harmony.

School: University of the Philippines

Course: Bachelor of Music (UP College of Music

Credentials: Faculty Member (UP), Executive Artistic Director of San Miguel Foundation of Performing Art, Phil Harmonic Orchestra, San Miguel Master Choir

Present: Musical Director, Song Writer, Arranger, Conductor

May 4, 1954Award-winningKay Ganda ng Ating Musika (1978), as well as the modern zarzuela Alikabok (2003), the opera Spoliarium with libretto by Fides Cuyugan-Asensio, and a variety of choral pieces and song cycles.

1. He founded the Centro Escolar de Señoritas, Conservatory of Music.

a. Molina b. Buencamino

2. He is considered as Father of the Kundiman”

a. San Pedro b. Santiago

3. He developed a style that combined European romanticism with chromaticism. a. Molina b. Abelardo

4. Be came to be known as the “Father of Philippine Impressionist Music

a. Buenaventura b. Molina

5. He integrated indigenous musical forms, conventions, and instruments in his works in the modern nationalistic stylea. San Pedro b. Santiago

HILARION RUBIO Y FRANCISCO(1902 – 1985)

16. Bulaklaken, Dance of the Nymphs Rondo, Florente at Laura, Halik, Danza, Ang Konsyerto (ballet), Ang Magsasaka, Bukang Liwayway, Concertino in C (Marimba and piano), Filipinas Kong Mahal, Hatulan Mo Ako, Ginintuang Araw, In a Tropcal Sea, Filipino Youth, Nela, Light, Narra, Mutya ng Silangan

Nicanor Abelardo

Hilarion Rubio

Rodolfo Cornejo

Lucio San Pedro -

Felipe de Leon Sr.

17. Bulaklak Alitaptap, Bagong Lipunan,Payapang Daigdig, Pasko na Naman, NocheBuena, Kay Tamis ng Buhay, Sapagkat MahalKita

19. A la Juventud Filipina, Bailes de Ayer, Caprice on a Folksong, Cello Sonata, Cello Sonata,Ibong Adarna, Kandingan, Malakas atMaganda Overture, Okaka, Oriental Fantasy,Ibong Adarna, Piano Concerto Nos. 1,2,3,Ruby, Song of the Miners,

20. Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, Suite Pastorale, LahingKayumanggi

18. Nasaan Ka Irog?, Bituing Marikit, Mutya ng Pasig, Paskong Anong Saya, Cavatina, Kundiman ng Luha, Magbalik Ka Hirang

Nicanor Abelardo

Hilarion Rubio

Rodolfo Cornejo

Lucio San Pedro -

Felipe de Leon Sr.