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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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