JOSE MACEDA

BIOLOGY

DATE OF BIRTH: January 31, 1917

BIRTH PLACE: Manila
DATE OF DEATH: May 5, 2004

 Maceda, 87, succumbed to acute respiratory failure as a result of the final stages of prostate
cancer late evening of Wednesday, May 5, at his residence in Area I on campus. Now, that figure
of a man walking the campus of UP in Diliman he served so well is now a memory.

HE IS A COMPOSER, ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST, TEACHER AND PIANIST.

From an early age, and influenced by the musicality of his parents, Maceda took an interest in the piano
and developed a special talent throughout his teens. Upon completion of his secondary education at the
prestigious UP High School, Maceda chose to study music at the Alexander Lippay Academy of Music
in Manila. Maceda graduated from the academy of music in 1935 and- ÉcoleNormale de Musique de
Paris in France.-where he studied music analysis.- musicology at Columbia University,
and anthropology at Northwestern University.
Maceda learnt from and collaborated with the renowned pianist Alfred Cortot but was forced to return to
the Philippines after the outbreak of World War Two.

-Maceda also enhanced his piano skills under the tutelage of E. Robert Schmitz in San Francisco.

-From 1953, Maceda turned his research interest to the traditional music of his home country and began
to collect data from the island of Mindoro in The Philippines.
This shift in focus from Western music to traditional Filipino music enabled Maceda to secure
sponsorship from the Rockefeller Foundation. -he conducted fieldwork on the ethnic Music of the
Philippines. From about 1954, he was involved in the research and composition of musiqueconcrète. In
1958, he worked at a recording studio in Paris which specialized in musique concrete. In the same year
JoseMaceda married FrenchCanadian national Madelyn Clifford and the couple had four children
together, Marion, Madeleine, Kate and Eileen.
 -Maceda was an exceptional professional pianist and could be counted among the avant-garde musicians
of the 50s and 60s along with Varese and Xenakis, his most important and groundbreaking work was in
the field of ethnomusicology.

From 1953 to his death in Quezon City on 5th May 2004, Maceda devoted his life to the indigenous
music of Southeast Asia and an extensive collection of his research is housed in the UP Centre for
Ethnomusicology at University of the Philippines Diliman. The lasting legacy of Jose Maceda goes far
beyond his Jose Maceda (Anon, 2014). WacanaSeni Journal of Arts Discourse.many awards,
compositions and recognitions; he was the pioneer for Southeast Asian music heritage (Albertson and
Hannah 2015).

MUSICAL STYLE
-"Drone and Melody."
With the fusion of the two, he was able to invent an eccentric musical style he even called "Drone and
Melody." As mentioned by Jose Maceda in one of his interviews, "Drone" is an element in Southeast
Asian music referring to a sustained note. Simultaneously, Jose Maceda explained that "Melody" is a
combination of several tones that give color to the "Drone."

-Musical Style of Jose Maceda revolves around Ethnomusicology and Western Avant-garde.

In the world of music, Jose Maceda is known for his deep devotion to understanding and innovating
Filipino traditional music. In pursuing ethnomusicology, Jose Maceda traversed not only the Philippines
but also different parts of the world such as USA and the countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe to study
traditional music. Meanwhile, he also immersed his musical self in studying western avant-garde.

Music: UDLOT UDLOT

The musical style of Jose Maceda produced extraordinary compositions such as:

 Ugma-ugma (1963)- work for voice and ethnic instruments

 Agungan (1975)- a piece for 6 gong families
 Pagsamba(1968)- musical ritual for a circular auditorium using several ethnic percussion and
instrument
 Cassettes 100 (1971)- a composition for cassettes tape recorders
 Unayan (1974)- an ethnic piece
Awards:

Fumio Koizumi Award for Ethnomusicology in Japan (1992),

the National Research Council Award (1993),
the award ArawngMaynila (1996),
the Nikkei Award in Tokyo (1997),
the award of the FondazioneCivitellaRanieri in Italy (1997), a
nd the title of National Artist for Music (1998).

Jose Maceda was an artist, academic, philosopher, researcher, student and ethnomusicologist who
strived to increase human understanding of music and its relationship to human society in The
Philippines and the wider region of Southeast Asia. Maceda's name is now an established part of
ethnomusicology in Southeast Asia and he is considered one of the founding fathers of the academic
discipline in this part of the world (Tenzer 2003).

RAMON SANTOS

DATE OF BIRTH: 25 February 1941 (age 79 years)

BIRTH PLACE: Pasig

-Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer, conductor and musicologist, is currently the country’s foremost
exponent of contemporary Filipino music.
A prime figure in the second generation of Filipino composers in the modern idiom, Santos has
contributed greatly to the quest for new directions in music, taking as basis non-Western traditions in the
Philippines and Southeast Asia.

-He graduated in 1965 from the UP College of Music with a Teacher’s Diploma and a Bachelor of
Music degree in both Composition and Conducting. Higher studies in the United States under a
Fulbright Scholarship at Indiana University (for a Master’s degree, 1968) and at the State University of
New York at Buffalo (for a Doctorate, 1972)

-His return to the Philippines marked a new path in his style. After immersing himself in indigenous
Philippine and Asian (Javanese music and dance, Chinese nan kuan music),
he became more interested in open-ended structures of time and space, function as a compositional
concept, environmental works, non-conventional instruments, the dialectics of control and non-control,
and the incorporation of natural forces in the execution of sound-creating tasks. All these would lead to
the forging of a new alternative musical language founded on a profound understanding and a thriving
and sensitive awareness of Asian music aesthetics and culture.

-An active musicologist, Santos’ interest in traditional music cultures was heretofore realized in 1976 by
embarking on fieldwork to collect and document music from folk religious groups in Quezon. He has
also done research and fieldwork among the Ibaloi of Northern Luzon.
His ethnomusicological orientation has but richly enhanced his compositional outlook. Embedded in the
works of this period are the people-specific concepts central to the ethnomusicological discipline, the
translation of indigenous musical systems into modern musical discourse, and the marriage of Western
and non-Western sound.An intense and avid pedagogue, Santos, as Chair of the Department of
Compositiion and Theory (and formerly, as Dean) of the College of Music, UP, has remained
instrumental in espousing a modern Philippine music rooted in old Asian practices and life concepts.
With generation upon generation of students and teachers that have come under his wing, he continues
to shape a legacy of modernity anchored on the values of traditional Asian music.

-He was a full fellow at the FerienkursefϋrNeueMusik in Darmstadt and a visiting scholar in
Ethnomusicology at the University of Illinois.

-36 works in 57 publications in 5 languages and 184 library holdings

-Compositional style: chromaticism, music seria, and electric components.

-exposed him to the world of contemporary and avant-garde musical idioms: the rigorous processes of
serialism, electronic and contemporary music, indeterminacy, and new vocal and improvisational
techniques.

-he has also done extensive research on the gamelan music of Java, as well as the traditional music of
the Ibaloi, Maranao, Mansaka, Bontoc, Yakan, and Boholano tribes in the Philippines.

Music:
Ding DingNgaDiyawa,
NabasagnaBanga
Pinag-ugpong-ugpongnaPananalitasaWikang Pilipino parasaLabingAnimnaTinig,
L’BAD

Awards:

 Chevalier de l'Ordre des

Arts et Lettres, 1987
 National Artist of the
Philippines, 2014

Francisco Feliciano

BIRTH PLACE: Morong, Rizal

BIRTH DATE: February, 19 19421
DATE OF DEATH: 19 September 2014, Manila

-He graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Teacher's diploma in Music (1967) with a
Masters in Music Composition (1972).

- A composer, conductor, or educator,  contributed to bringing the awareness of people all over the
world to view the Asian culture as a rich source of inspiration and a celebration of our ethnicity,
particularly the Philippines.
Francisco Feliciano’s corpus of creative work attests to the exceptional talent of the Filipino as an artist.
His lifetime conscientiousness in bringing out the “Asianness” in his music.He brought out the unique
sounds of our indigenous music in compositions that have high technical demands equal to the
compositions of masters in the western world. By his numerous creative outputs, he has elevated the
Filipino artistry into one that is highly esteemed by the people all over the world.

-He was the musical director of the movie AngBukas ay Atin, and My Fair Lady etch.

- Among his large works are Transfiguration and MissaMysterium

-His operas and orchestral works also showcase the masterful treatment of a musical language that is
unique and carries with it a contemporary style that allows for the use of modal scales, Feliciano’s
preferred tonality.
In his modest hymns, Feliciano was able to bring out the Filipino mysticism in the simple harmonies that
is able to captivate and charm his audiences. It is his matchless genius in choosing to state his ideas in
their simplest state but producing a haunting and long-lasting impact on the listening soul that makes his
music extraordinarily sublime.

Major Music:
Ashen Wings (1995),
Sikhaysa Kabila ngPaalam (1993),
La LobaNegra (1983), Yerma (1982),
Pamugun (1995),
PokpokAlimako (1981)

Awards:

Many of his choral compositions have been performed by the best choirs in the country, such as the
world-renowned Philippines Madrigal Singers, UST Singers, and the Novo Concertante Manila, and
have won for them numerous awards in international choral competitions.

He was given the John D. Rockefeller Award for Music Composition in 1977. For some
years, Feliciano was also a conductor of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra.