Author: Ramón Pagayon Santos, National Artist for Music
Publisher: Quezon City : UP Press, 2023.
Format: Book
Price: PhP 950.00 or USD 30.00

 

 

 

 

The present compendium is a collection of lectures, papers, and essays that deal with broad topics such as globalization, ethnicity, and the diversity of musical traditions to more specific subjects such as composition, dance, education, musicology, the plucked stringed instruments of the world, as well as musical attributes Ike motion and stasis, time and space, pluralism and change. These writings explore culture from the point of view of the performing arts in their contextual loci, defining their particularities and peculiarities that give a glimpse of the wide Catholicity of perceptions, functions, theories, as well as circumstances, both natural and humanly induced. In a sense, these essays reflect Ramón Pagayon Santos’s personal odyssey into the world of the arts and humanities as composer, educator, performer, researcher, and administrator, by which his sensitivities and thinking have attributes of music and beyond.

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: MUSIC AS GLOBAL PHENOMENON
Local Musical Productions in a Global Community
Cultures of Expression as Source of Cross-Disciplinal
Thrusts in Human Productivity
Ethnicity and Music Composition as Globalized
Human Expression
The Plucked String: A Diverse Phenomenon in the
Musical Traditions of the World's Culture
Dance: A View from Music
Science in the Arts and Art in Science in a University Culture

PART TWO: MUSIC IN ASIA
The Concept of Time and Space in Asian Artistic Expression
A Concept of Community in Asian Creative Expression
Diversity and Change in Asian Musical Traditions
Musicology: A Brief Review and Its Impact on Asia
Modern Technology and the Musics of Asia

PART THREE: MUSIC IN THE PHILIPPINES
The Study and Understanding of Oral Traditions with Reference to Philippine Music
Philippine Music: Pluralism and Change Musical Traditions and Their Potential as Effective
Communication Media in Contemporary Philippine Society Nationalism and Indigenization in Philippine Contemporary Music: An Accultured Response to Westernization
Modernism in Lumad Musical Practice
Motion and Stasis as Temporal Determinants in Musical Expression

PART FOUR: MUSIC IN PEDAGOGY AND EDUCATION
Pedagogy, Learning, and the Acculturative Environment in Asia: Creative Response to Trends and Values of Contemporary Life
The Relevance of Research and Cultural Preservation to Real Life
Ideological and Conceptual Variations in the Understanding of World Musics: Implications on Music Education

REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR