NICANOR ABELARDO

Nicanor Sta. Ana Abelardo (February 7, 1893 March 21, 1934) was
a Filipino composer known for his Kundiman songs, especially before the Second World
War.
COMPOSED SONG
1937 - Nasaan ka, Irog (music)
1937 - Bituing Marikit (Sampaguita) (music)
2013 - The Songs of Nicanor Abelardo,
[3]
featuring baritone Joseph Legaspi, tenor
William Lim, soprano Katrina Saporsantos, and pianist Benjamin Dia.








BITUING MARIKIT 1937

Bituing marikit sa gabi ng buhay
Ang bawat kislap mo'y ligaya ang taglay
Yaring aking palad iyong patnubayan
At kahit na sinag, ako'y bahaginan

Natanim sa puso ko yaong isang pag-ibig
Napinakasasamba sa loob ng dibdib
Sa iyong luningning, laging nasasabik
Ikaw ang pangarap, Bituing marikit

Lapitan mo ako, halina Bituin!
At ating pag-isahin ang mga damdamin
Ang sabik kong diwa'y huwag mong uhawin
Sa batis na iyong wagas na paggiliw








JULIAN FELIPE

Julin Felipe (January 28, 1861
October 2, 1944), was the composer of the music of the Filipino national anthem, formerly known
as "Marcha Nacional Magdalo", now known as Lupang Hinirang.
LUPANG HINIRANG
Bayang magiliw
Perlas ng Silanganan,
Alab ng puso,
Sa dibdib mo'y buhay.

Lupang Hinirang,
Duyan ka ng magiting,
Sa manlulupig,
Di ka pasisiil.

Sa dagat at bundok,
Sa simoy at sa langit mong bughaw,
May dilag ang tula
At awit sa paglayang minamahal.

Ang kislap ng watawat mo'y
Tagumpay na nagniningning,
Ang bituin at araw niya
Kailan pa ma'y di magdidilim.

Lupa ng araw, ng luwalhati't pagsinta,
Buhay ay langit sa piling mo.
Aming ligaya, na pag may mang-aapi
Ang mamatay nang dahil sa iyo.

Born January 28, 1861
Cavite, Cavite
Died October 2, 1944 (aged 83)
Manila
Occupation Composer
LEVI CELERIO

Levi Celerio (April 30, 1910 April 2, 2002) was a Filipino composer and lyricist.
Celerio was a prolific songwriter, with over 4,000 songs to his credit. He is
perhaps best known for being a leaf-player, a feat for which he was put into
the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1997, he was namedNational Artist of
the Philippines for Music.
His more popular love songs include: Saan Ka Man Naroroon?, Kahit Konting
Pagtingin, Gaano Ko Ikaw Kamahal, Kapag Puso'y Sinugatan, and Ikaw, O
Maliwanag na Buwan, Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak, Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, Bagong
Pagsilang, and Sapagkat Kami'y Tao Lamang, while his folk songs include Ang
Pipit, Tinikling, Tunay na Tunay, Itik-Itik, Waray-Waray, Pitong Gatang,Ako ay
May Singsing, Alibangbang, Alembong, Galawgaw, Caprichosa, Ang Tapis ni
Inday, Dungawin Mo Hirang, Umaga na Neneng, Ikaw Kasi, and Basta't Mahal
Kita. Celerio also wrote nationalistic songs such as Ang Bagong Lipunan, Lupang
Pangarap, and Tinig ng Bayan.











SA UGOY NG DUYAN

Sana'y di magmaliw ang dati kong araw
Nang munti pang bata sa piling ni Nanay
Nais kong maulit ang awit ni Inang mahal
Awit ng pag-ibig habang ako'y nasa duyan

Sana'y di magmaliw ang dati kong araw
Nang munti pang bata sa piling ni Nanay
Nais kong maulit ang awit ni Inang mahal
Awit ng pag-ibig ako'y nasa duyan

Sa aking pagtulog na labis ang himbing
Ang bantay ko'y tala
Ang tanod ko'y bituin
Sa piling ni Nanay
Langit ang buhay
Puso kong may dusa
Sabik sa ugoy ng duyan mo Inay
Sana narito ka Inay

Sana'y di magmaliw ang dati kong araw
Nang munti pang bata sa piling ni Nanay
Nais kong maulit ang awit ni Inang mahal
Awit ng pag-ibig nang ako'y nasa duyan.








ANTONIO MOLINA

Antonio J. Molina (1894-1980) was a Filipino composer, conductor
and music administrator who was named a National Artist of the
Philippines for his services to music. He was also known as Claude
Debussy of the Philippines due to his use of impressionism in music.
His first composition was "Matinal" in 1912. He was appointed to teach
harmony, composition, music history, and violincello at the UP
Conservatory of Music, pursuing a career in music education until being
appointed dean of the Centro Escolar Conservatory of Music. He founded
the CEU String Quartet which was professionally organized and financed
by its music school.
As a composer Molina is credited with over 500 compositions.











GEORGE CANSECO

George Masangkay Canseco was born 23 April 1934 in Naic, Cavite, Philippines and died 19 November
2004 in Manila, Philippines). Canseco was a nationally acclaimed composer of numerous
popular Filipino classics.
Canseco wrote the classic "Kapantay Ay Langit", a theme from the award winning motion picture sung
by Amapola. It also had an English version titled "You're All I Love" that was sang by American singer Vic
Dana that included some Tagalog lines. The song won the Manila Film Festival Best Song Of The Year
Award in 1972. Canseco followed it with an English song entitled "Songs" exclusively for "Songs and
Amapola" under the Vicor Music Corporation Pioneer Label. Canseco's best known composition,
however, was "Child", the English-language version of Freddie Aguilar's signature song "Ank". He wrote
for Sharon Cunetaand Basil Valdez, and his songs were also recorded by Regine Velasquez, Zsa Zsa
Padilla, Pilita Corrales, Martin Nievera, and Kuh Ledesma. Rey Valera was a lyricist of two of Canseco's
songs.
Canseco credited film producer and Vicor Music Corporation owner Vic del Rosario for his biggest break
in the music industry. Canseco was elected President of the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers, Inc. in 1973, and also elected a Councillor for the First District of Quezon City in 1988.

















KAPANTAY AY LANGIT

Mahal kita, kapantay ay langit sinta
At lagi kong dasal sa Maykapal
Ang lumigaya ka
Kahit ngayon, mayroon ka nang ibang mahal
Hinding-hindi pa rin ako magdaramdam

Ngunit sinta, sakaling paluhain ka
Magbalik ka lamang
Naghihintay puso ko't kaluluwa
Pag-ibig ko kapantay ay langit, hirang
Hindi magbabago kailan pa man

Ngunit sinta, sakaling paluhain ka
Magbalik ka lamang
Naghihintay puso ko't kaluluwa
Pag-ibig ko kapantay ay langit, hirang
Hindi magbabago kailan pa man
Hindi magbabago kailan pa man.





RYAN CAYABYAB

Ryan Cayabyab (born Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab on May 4, 1954
in Manila, Philippines but known as Mr. C) is a Filipino musician and was the Executive and Artistic
Director of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. He was also a resident judge for
the only season of Philippine Idol in 2006.
His works range from commissioned full-length ballets, theater musicals, choral pieces, a Mass set to
unaccompanied chorus, and orchestral pieces, to commercial recordings of popular music, film scores
and television specials.
Cayabyab's current project includes the Ryan Cayabyab Singers (RCS), a group of seven young adult
singers comparable to his prior group Smokey Mountain in the early '90s. After FreemantleMedia decided
not to renew the Philippine Idol franchise, Cayabyab transferred to rival show Pinoy Dream Academy
(season 2), replacing Jim Paredes as the show's headmaster. PDA 2 started on June 14, 2008.
He is now the executive director of the Philpop MusicFest Foundation Inc., the organization behind
the Philippine Popular Music Festival, a songwriting competition for amateurs and professionals that
seeks to uplift the Philippine Music industry by putting the spotlight on songwriters, and encouraging
Filipinos to preserve our musical identity.
GREAT ORIGINAL PILIPINO MUSIC BY RYAN CAYABYAB
All songs in the album composed and arranged by Ryan Cayabyab. All songs recorded in 2001, except
tracks 5, 8, and 9, which are SMMC a capella tracks and were recorded in 2004. This album received
three nominations in the 18th Awit Awards aside from winning Best Musical Arrangement for Tuwing
Umuulan at Kapiling Ka. Under Sony-BMG Pilipinas.
Tuwing Umuulan at Kapiling Ka (winner, 18th Awit Awards, Best Musical Arrangement)
Iduyan Mo
Kahit Ika'y Panaginip Lang
Paraisong Parisukat
Tunay na Ligaya
Nais Ko
Liman-Dipang Tao
Tsismis
Da Coconut Nut
Iniibig Kita
Paraiso
Awit ng Pagsinta (Epithalamium) - from Ryan Cayabyab and Bienvenido Lumbera's pop-ballet Rama
Hari; lyrics by Lumbera
Hibang sa Awit - lyrics by Jose Javier Reyes
Tuwing Umuulan At Kapiling Ka
By: Ryan Cayabyab
Pagmasdan Ang Ulan, Unti-Unting Pumapatak
Sa Mga Halama't Mga Bulaklak.
Pagmasdan Ang Dilim Unti-Unting Bumabalot
Sa Buong Paligid Tuwing Umuulan.

Kasabay Ng Ulan, Bumubuhos Ang 'yong Ganda
Kasabay Rin Ng Hanging Kumakanta.
Ma'ri Bang Huwag Ka Nang Sa Piling Ko'y Lumisan Pa
Hanggang Ang Hangi't Ula'y Tumila Na.

Buhos Na Ulan Aking Mundo'y Lunuring Tuluyan.
Tulad Ng Pag-Agos Mo 'di Mapipigil
Ang Puso Kong Nagliliyab.
Pag-Ibig Ko'y Umaapaw Damdamin Ko'y Humihiyaw Sa Tuwa
Tuwing Umuulan At Kapiling Ka.

Pagmasdan Ang Ulan, Unti-Unting Tumitila,
Ikaw Ri'y Magpapaalam Na.
Maari Bang Minsan Pa, Mahagkan Ka't Maiduyan Pa.
Sakbibi Ka't Ulan Lamang Ang Saksi.

Minsan Pa Ulan Bumuhos Ka't H'wag Nang Tumigil Pa.
Hatid Mo Ma'y Bagyo Dalangin Ito Ng Puso Kong Sumasamo.
Pag-Ibig Ko'y Umaapaw Damdamin Ko'y Humihiyaw Sa Tuwa
Tuwing Umuulan At Kapiling Ka.

FRANCISCO SANTIAGO

Francisco Santiago (January 29, 1889 September 28, 1947), was a Filipino musician, sometimes
called The Father of Kundiman Art Song.
Santiago was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines, to musically-minded peasant parents, Felipe
Santiago and Maria Santiago. In 1908, his first composition, Purita, was dedicated to the first Carnival
Queen, Pura Villanueva, who later married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.
Santiago's masterpiece was the "Concerto in B flat minor" for pianoforte and orchestra and his most
famous piece "Kundiman, (Anak-Dalita)".
His other compositions are the kundiman "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig",
"Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw at Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't
Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat ng Araw". He was named
UP Emeritus Professor of Piano, on May 25, 1946. When the University of the Philippines Conservatory
of Music was celebrating its 30th anniversary, the patriotic musician died of a heart attack. He was buried
at the North Cemetery, Manila. A hall in the Head Office of BDO( former PCIBank Twin Towers) was
named in his honor as the Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly used for kundiman contests of the
Makati City Government and the awarding of Service Awards of the former Equitable PCIBank and
PCIBank.




PAKIUSAP
By: Francisco Santiago

Natutulog ka man, irog kong matimtiman
Tunghayan mo man lamang ang nagpapaalam
Dahan dahan mutya, buksan mo ang bintana,
Tanawin mo't kahabagan,
Ang sa iyo'y nagmamahal.


Kung sakali ma't salat sa yama't pangarap,
May isang sumpang wagas,
Ang aking paglingap.
Pakiusap ko sa iyo kaawaan mo ako,
Kahit mamatay, pag-ibig ko'y minsan lamang.
Iniibig kita, magpakailan pa man.







JONAS BAES

Jonas Baes is a Philippine composer born in Los Baos, Laguna in 1961. He enrolled in
the University of the Philippines' College of Music in 1977 as a student of Ramon P. Santos, and
encountered the musical compositions of Jose Maceda, attended several seminar-workshops of
visiting lecturers, and did research on the music of the Iraya-Mangyan people of Mindoro, which
became the inspiration for his compositions. From 1992-1994, he studied with Mathias Spahlinger
in Freiburg, Germany. Baes is known for writing music utilizing "unorthodox" musical instruments
like bean-pod rattles, leaves, iron-nail chimes, as well as various Asian instruments such as
bamboo scrapers, bamboo flutes, and vocal music using Asian vocal techniques. His early works
in the 1980s were influenced by Maceda in the use of large numbers of performers, while in the
1990s he experimented with various methods by which the audience becomes integral in the
performance. At the beginning of the new century, Baes experiments with notions of structure-
agency integration [after Anthony Giddens] and simulacrum [after Jean Baudrillard]. It is typical
for social theory to influence the work of Baes who has made a mark on contemporary music and
cultural politics in the Asian region. Jonas Baes is also active as an ethnomusicologist and writer.
COMPOSITIONS:
WALA [nothingness] for seven or hundreds of men's voices [1997/2001]
DALUY [flow] interval music for five animator-percussionists and about a hundred bird whistles distributed
among the audience [1994]
IBO-IBON [birdwoman] for dancer wearing small bells, two large wind chimes passed around the
audience, four animator-callers, and iron nail chimes played by the audience [1996]
SALAYSAY [narratives/ inspired by Jean Baudrillard] for solo voice, three percussionists, and pairs of
pebbles distributed among the audience
PATANGIS-BUWAYA [and the crocodile weeps] for four sub-contrabass recorders or any blown
instruments [2003]
PANTAWAG [music for calling people] for 15 bamboo scrapers, 15 palm leaves, and 20 muffled "forest"
voices [1981]
BASBASAN [blessing] for 20 bean-pod rattles and 20 muffled men's voices [1983].