Jose estella biography

Alkan Street in Escolta Manila as late as This was believed to have been done in a room in the newly-finished Manila Hotel. However, this was very unlikely because Victor Talking Company, based in Camden New Jersey, was very meticulous in the quality of their recordings. His competitor was another expatriate businessman named Isaac Beck who was the dealer of the German trademark Odeon recordings.

It was only after the invention of the condenser microphone in the mids and the electricity-driven gadgetry that converted acoustic signals to electro-magnetic waves did the acceleration of commercial recording of Philippine music started. Not long after, radio broadcasting followed suit and it immediately went into the commercial sphere reaching in the s only to the hands of the rich and landed Filipinos and the salaried bureaucrats.

The impulse to record local music was the order of the day. An accompanying analysis of the work is also on the thesis. Today, Sufonias Aguinaldo is a totally unknown composer. Based on the available data that I've collected, Sufonias Ponce Zabala Aguinaldo was born in Ilocos Norte, and he went to study at Washington State University during where he composed several works such as a Violin Sonata in G Major and the already-mentioned Symphony.

He was part of the Filipino Club there before he graduated. Afterwards not much is known. I've found a grave with the name "Sufonias P. Aguinaldo" with dates Apr. This symphony still exists at the WSU library. It consists of pages. So far, this is the only pre-war Filipino symphony that survives in its entirety. Perhaps we can finally realize that feat and finally grant Aguinaldo some recognition today?

The Taga-ilog Symphony was Santiago in his most experimental and also his masterpiece, according to Molina and E. Arsenio Manuel. The four movement work includes 'native' percussive instruments such as the gangsa and sulibaw and a blend of multiple folk songs from different regions. First named " Luvizmin ," it was later changed to " Taga-ilog.

It has four movements:. The bulk of the new song compositions from Cebu in this decade came from music theater. Most of them, similar to what happened in Manila among the Tagalog composers, employed the balitao, the traditional song-debate between a man and a woman. Since dance cannot be recorded in sound, a new genre called balitao romansada i.

Balitao romansada was a composed song; it was unlike the traditional genre, which was improvised. Stylistically, the song is in strophic form, each strophe of which is made up of four smaller balanced phrases. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item.

Jose estella biography

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