Kanta Binisayá teaching and promoting Eastern Visayan musical culture and heritage - Lagarde, Stephen Q. (Tacloban City Stephen Q. Lagarde, 2021)
Table of Contents: About Kanta Binisaya. Table of Contents. Acknowledgment. Foreword. Part I. Kanta Binisaya: The Eastern Visayan Musical Heritage: Children's Song -- Christmas Song -- Didactic Songs -- Drinking Songs -- Humorous Songs -- Love and Courtship -- Love of Country -- Narrative Songs -- Occupational Song -- Song of Family Life -- Songs of Nature -- Virtue Songs -- Part II. Koro Binisaya: Choral Arrangements of Songs in Eastern Visayas. -- About the Author.
"Kanta Binisayá is a book publication and instructional materials production project that seeks to promote Eastern Visayan musical culture, heritage and identity by providing music teachers and students with a definitive instructional material in appreciating, analyzing and understanding the folk and traditional songs of Eastern Visayas. This project presents forty-five (45) Eastern Visayan songs which have been grouped or categorized in terms of their distinct cultural purpose or function. While Part II of the book also presents six (6) choral arrangements that serve as examples of Eastern Visayan music that may be used for school or public performances, the instructional materials part of the project presents to its users practical ways by which each folk or traditional song can be studied, learned and performed. Moreover, each of these songs can also serve as an impetus for music arrangers to create new, exciting and challenging interpretations of the said folk and traditional songs ...." - publisher
Tac-3368g donated by Dr. Stephen Q. Lagarde on October 28, 2021.
Keywords: Music analysis -- Music collections -- Philippines -- Eastern Visayas; Music appreciation -- Music collections -- Philippines -- Eastern Visayas; Songs -- Philippines -- Eastern Visayas; Songs, Bisayan