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    Jose Maceda was a Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist born in 1917 who dedicated his life to preserving Filipino traditional music. His style started transforming in 1953 when he encountered indigenous Mindoro music, committing him to preservation. He made extensive recordings of music from remote Philippine villages and creatively combined western ideas with environmental sounds and ethnic instruments. Some of his major works included Ugma-Ugma for voice and ethnic instruments and Agungan for gong families. He had a distinguished career working in recording studios and as a professor of musicology in the Philippines. Maceda received many honors for his work, including being named a National Artist of the Philippines.

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    Jose Maceda was a Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist born in 1917 who dedicated his life to preserving Filipino traditional music. His style started transforming in 1953 when he encountered indigenous Mindoro music, committing him to preservation. He made extensive recordings of music from remote Philippine villages and creatively combined western ideas with environmental sounds and ethnic instruments. Some of his major works included Ugma-Ugma for voice and ethnic instruments and Agungan for gong families. He had a distinguished career working in recording studios and as a professor of musicology in the Philippines. Maceda received many honors for his work, including being named a National Artist of the Philippines.

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    Jose Maceda was a Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist born in 1917 who dedicated his life to preserving Filipino traditional music. His style started transforming in 1953 when he encountered indigenous Mindoro music, committing him to preservation. He made extensive recordings of music from remote Philippine villages and creatively combined western ideas with environmental sounds and ethnic instruments. Some of his major works included Ugma-Ugma for voice and ethnic instruments and Agungan for gong families. He had a distinguished career working in recording studios and as a professor of musicology in the Philippines. Maceda received many honors for his work, including being named a National Artist of the Philippines.

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    Jose Maceda

     Jose Maceda was born


    on January 17, 1917 in
    manila and died on May
    5, 2004. He first took his
    music studies at the
    Academy of music in
    Manila. Then, he went to
    study in Paris with Alfred
    Cortot, a French pianist
    and conductor. Eventually, he took advanced studies in
    the USA with E. Robert Schmitz. He earned his Doctorate
    Degree in Ethnomusicology from UCLA.

    MACEDA’S MUSICAL STYLES AND INSPIRATION

    o His style started to transform when he encountered the


    music of indigenous groups of Mindoro in 1953. After
    which, his life was committed to the preservation of
    Filipino Traditional music. With his dedication to his field
    of work, he made a collection of recorded music taken
    from the remote mountain villages all over the Philippines.
    Maceda’s musical style still holds western musical ideas
    but creatively combined environmental sounds with ethnic
    instruments.

    WORKS OF MACEDA

     Ugma-Ugma (1963) for voice and ethnic instruments


     Agungan (1975) for 6 gong families
     Pagsamba(1968) for ethnic percussions
     Cassettes100 (1971) for 100 cassette tape recorders
     Ugnayan (1974) an ethnic piece played the same time
    over several radio stations
     Udlot-Udlot (175) for bamboo instruments and voices

    MACEDA’S WORK EXPERIENCE

     Worked in a recording studio in Paris in 1958 which


    specialized in musique concrete.
     Piano and musicology professor at the university of the
    Philippine, College of Music from 1953-1990.
     Executive Director of Central Ethnomusicology in 1997.
     Conferred as National Artist for Music in 1997.

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Among his many honors are grants from the Guggenheim


    (1957-58, for study in the USA) and Rockefeller (1968, for
    research in Africa and Brazil) foundations, the honor
    I’Ordre des Palmes academiques in France (1978) and the
    University of The Philippines Outstanding Research Award
    (1985). He also received the John D. Rockefeller Award
    from the Asian Cultural council in New York (1987), the
    Philippine National Science Society Achievement Award
    (1998), the award Tanglaw ng Lahi from Ateneo
    University (1998), and the award Gawad ng Lahi from the
    cultural center of the Philippines (1989).

    Furthermore, he has received the Fumio Koizumi Award


    for Ethnomusicology in Japan (1992), the National
    Research Council Award (1997), and the award Araw ng
    Maynila (1996), the Nikkei Award in Tokyo (1997), the
    award of the Fondazione Civitella Ranieri in Italy (1997),
    and the title of National Artist for Music (1998). He also
    holds the titles of Officier dan’s I’Ordre National du Merite
    (1997) and Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (2001) from
    the government of France.

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