Las Pinas Bamboo Organ

Music of the Lowlands of Luzon 1 :

Christianity

is a monotheistic religion based on the life andoral teachings of Jesus as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is
theworld's largest religion, with approximately 2.2 billion adherents, known asChristians.Most Christians believe that Jesus is the
Son of God, fully divine and fully human, and the saviour of humanity whose coming was prophesied in the Old Testament.
Consequently, Christians refer to Jesus as "Christ" or the Messiah.

Catholic Religion

Spanish Colonization

is a broad term for describing specific traditions in the Christian churches in theology and doctrine, liturgy, ethics and spirituality.
For many the term usually refers to Christians and churches, western and eastern, in full communion with the Holy See, usually
known as the Catholic Church or the Roman Catholic Church. However, many others use the term to refer to other churches with
historical continuity from the first millennium.

The invasion of the Filipinos by Spain did not begin in earnest until 1564, when another expedition from New Spain, commanded
by Miguel López de Legaspi, arrived.Permanent Spanish settlement was not established until 1565 when an expedition led by
Miguel López de Legazpi, the first Governor-General of the Philippines, arrived in Cebu from New Spain. Spanish leadership was
soon established over many small independent communities that previously had known no central rule.

Cultural Context

History and traditions

Las Pinas Bamboo Organ

If there’s one thing that is unique about Las Piñas, it is the Bamboo Organ, which is considered a Philippine National Treasure. On
November 24, 2003, it was given this recognition by the National Museum of the Philippines since “it is the only 19th century
Bamboo Organ in the Philippines that has survived and is still functioning.” This unique musical instrument is composed of 1,031
pipes, and 902 of which are made out of bamboo while the rest are metal.

Santacruzan

is a popular religious festival held in many towns and cities throughout the Philippines as the highlight of the month-long
celebration of Flores de Mayo during the month of May. It is usually celebrated with a parade of decorated floats and elaborately
dressed characters, representing various aspects of the Virgin Mary and other figures. The festival was introduced to the country
during the Spanish period and continues to be celebrated by Filipinos all over the world.

Salubong

is an Easter Sunday pre-dawn ritual that reenacts the Risen Christ's meeting with His mother. It is performed in the churchyard
under a specially prepared arch where the veiled image of the Virgin Mary has been placed. A child dressed as an angel is
lowered by ropes from a high platform to lift the mourning veil of the grieving Mother. The church bells are rung, and there is a
procession of the images of Christ and his mother that ends up inside the church.

The participants in the procession are segregated by gender. The men and boys follow the image of Jesus Christ, while women
and girls follow the image of Mary. The procession ends with the two groups meeting in the church, where Mass is said.

Known simply as Pabása is a Catholic devotion in the Philippines popular during Holy Week involving the uninterrupted chanting
of the Pasyón, an early 16th-century epic poem narrating the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Music for Liturgy and Devotional Music

Pabasa ng Pasyon

Flores De Mayo
Senakulo

is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May. It is one of the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for
the entire month.

Is a Lenten play that depicts events from the Old and New Testaments related to the life, sufferings, and death of Christ.

The senakulo is traditionally performed on a proscenium-type stage with painted cloth or paper backdrops that are called telon.
It takes at least eight nights - from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday - to present the play. Christ is presented traditionally as meek
and masochistic, submitting lamblike to his fate in obedience to authority.

Moro-moro/Komedya

Is colorful theatrical tradition in the Philippines that describes the conflicts between the Muslims and the Christians. It was used
by the Spanish as a method to spread Christianity in the country.

Songs in Mass

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

Benedictus

Agnus Dei

Pastores

Thank you!

is Christmas season folk dance and song practiced in many parts of Samar. The pastores (shepherds) recounts the story of the
shepherds who visited the child Jesus in the manger through a song. They go house to house singing the daygon (worship). In
some place the song is also called pastores or pastorada. These are songs of happy mood with a uniform message that tells the
people to rejoice because the Savior was born. Most of the daygon are sung in Waray but the oldest ones are in Spanish or mixed
diglot. A daygon version found in Can-avid, Eastern Samar was a diglot with opening line goes like " Bulan han Diciembre, bulan
nga bulahan. Kami nga mga pastores nagrarayhak..." The song is ended with a Spanish invitation: "Vamos, vamos pastores de
Belen".

The music of the Lowlands of Luzon, particularly on the Music for Liturgy and Devotional Music.. The Lowlands of Luzon consist
of several ethnolinguistic groups.. Throughout the lesson, one will discover how the people of the Lowlands of Luzon express
their feelings towards each other and the environment, their history, and their religious beliefs through voice and musical
instruments. A group performance inspired by the Lowlands’ musical examples will culminate the educational experience.

Vocal Music

The Mass - a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the
Eucharisticliturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism) to music. Most Masses are
settings of the liturgy in Latin, the liturgical sacred language of the Catholic Church's Roman liturgy, but there are a significant
number written in the languages of non-Catholic countries where vernacular worship has long been the norm. For example,
there are many Masses (often called "Communion Services") written in English for the Church of England. Musical Masses take
their name from the Catholic liturgy called "the Mass" as well.