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Philippine Folk Music

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The traditional music of the Philippines: the Spanish-influenced serenades and ballads of the lowlands, rondalla string ensembles, Visayan sung dialogue and the gong and chant traditions of the indigenous highlands and the Muslim south.

Philippines · emerged Pre-colonial · peak 19th-20th century

Also called: filipino folk music, musikang katutubo

History

Three centuries of Spanish rule laid guitar, harana and kundiman over indigenous gong and epic traditions; the American period and independence added a national popular music that still draws on both.

What it sounds like

Rondalla plucked-string ensembles
Serenade and ballad traditions
Kulintang gong music of the south
Improvised sung dialogue

Beneath it: balitaw, filipino rondalla, harana, kundiman

Beside it: opm