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Music in the Philippines is everywhere. There's no doubt that Filipinos love music, as they create music in different ways and forms just to express their feelings.

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It all started when the indigenous people used instruments and their voices in making a musical sound. Music styles differ from one ethnic group to another. Many types and examples of indigenous music have been lost but there are still number of local music that exist due to the preservation efforts of the people.

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As people from the west colonized our country, everything changed. Friars received musical training in Spain before travelling to the country and taught Filipino music whose pedagogy were based on Western musical traditions. Thus, music turned into a combination of both indigenous music and Western Aesthetics.

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Americans taught children simple hymns and Filipino songs rendered in a Western style or beat. Schools were used to be a venue for them to study other musical instruments such as violin, cello, etc. Luckily, these schools produced musicians that would later became the leaders in the development of Filipino contemporary music.

One of them is Francisco Santiago who is sometimes called the Father of Kundiman Art Song.

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The mid-twentieth-century Filipino music which was still influenced by foreign music, eventually developed a more 'Filipinized' flavor through the use of the vernacular in lyrics and creation of wholly original compositions. This technique of combining Western musical form with Filipino sensibilities is the most popular and common style employed by many contemporary music artists.

Felipe Padilla de Leon is one of the Filipino artist who Filipinized western music forms.

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A musical art form that is a product of Spanish Colonization. Kundiman is a way of showing love and affection to a person. It can be about love or patriotism. Kundiman, like other art songs, it is performed as a vocal composition combined with an instrumental accompaniment to achieve musical harmony.

The video below is an example of a kundiman song played by Michael Adap and Florante Aguilar.

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Michael Dadap and Florante Aguilar play Joselinang Baliwag (Kundiman of 1850)

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Choral music is a musical composition intended to be performed by a group of singers called a choir. A choir is composed with different voice categories such as soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. Before, choirs usually perform in churches, singing religious hymns during the mass.

The most well-known school choir is the choral group of the University of the Philippines, the Philippine Madrigal Singers or the Madz. The Madz is the most awarded choral groups in the Philippines.

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Popular music also known as pop music is used to describe music that is readily available anywhere you will go. It is composed of different genres such as RnB, Rap, Rock, Hip-hop, Dance, etc. Many of the Popular music played in the Philippines are Western imports that became a strong influence to many contemporary singers and artists.

Early example of Filipino musicians who create their own version of pop music is Yoyoy Villame who composed "Mag-exercise Tayo Tuwing Umaga".