Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transmission of music. Early writings on Philippine music, 1880s-1930s / Jose S. Buenconsejo -- Proposals for a Conservatory of Music, 1870s-1890s / Bayani Santos Jr. -- "The magical means of great souls" : music in women's education in the nineteenth century / Marya Svetlana T. Camacho -- The first Tagalog music theory book / Arwin Q. Tan -- The lineage of classical guitar pedagogy at the UP College of Music / Teresa Canon Garcia -- Colonized by Rote : music education at the outset of the US colonial era in the Philippines / Christi-Anne Castro -- The Thomasites in Philippine colonial education / Raul Casantusan Navarro -- 1916 : The UP Conservatory of Music as a dream fulfilled / Bayani Santos Jr. -- The Confederated Music Schools of Manila in the early twentieth century / Arwin Q. Tan -- Francisco S. Santiago, 1889-1947 : the first Filipino director of the UP Conservatory of Music / Mauricia D. Borromeo -- The Academy of Music of Manila, 1931-1941 : a central European-molded conservatory / Arwin Q. Tan -- Music heritage. Roman Catholic liturgical music in the intracolonial period in the Philippines, 1880-1940 / David J. Kendall -- The appropriated Villancico Filipino in the rituals of Philippine Christmas / Maria Alexandra Inigo Chua -- Serenata / Jocelyn Timbol-Guadalupe -- Folk music traditions / Edna Aurora C. Culig -- Diego C. Perez and his Recuerdos de Filipinas y sus Cantares: Gran Potpourri Para Piano,1886 / Jose S. Buenconsejo -- Clipping together steps and dancing them out : with Francisca Reyes Aquino and after / Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz -- The Philippine Rondala, 1880-1940 / Edna Aurora C. Culig -- Filipino composers during the American colonial period, 1898-1941 / Verne de la Pena -- Modern Filipino music before 1950 / Ramon P. Santos -- Politics and music. Music, politics, and the Buenaventuras / Resil B. Mojares -- Music of the Philippine revolution / Raul Casantusan Navarro -- Nakpil's musical tribute to the revolutionary heroes / Mahler dela Paz Villanueva -- The Philippine National Anthem / Raul Casantusan Navarro -- Hearing with an imperial ear : racializing the Philippine Constabulary Band and Black American conductor Lt. Col. Walter H. Loving / Mary Talusan -- Articulating resistance at the margins of power : music of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente / Arwin Q. Tan -- Minda Mora : music and identity in the early Tagalog zarzuela / Isidora Miranda -- The struggle for freedom as a sacred cause : the songs of radical social movements, 1940-1941 / Teresita Gimenez Maceda -- Music economy. Music printing and publishing in urban colonial Manila, 1858-1942 / Maria Alexandra Inigo Chua -- Writing "Filipino" : the critical pen on music in Manila's newspapers, 1860-1940 / Ma. Patricia Brillantes Silvestre -- Keyboards in nineteenth-century Philippines / Jose S. Buenconsejo -- Parish music history and economic administration : three case studies in the Central Visayas / David J. Kendall -- Selling the music : music stores and distribution companies in colonial Manila, 1873-1942 / Maria Alexandra Inigo Chua -- Echoing musical modernities : Filipino migrant musicians from the nineteenth century to the present / meLe yamomo -- On the Estella-Santiago dispute : sublation and crisis in intellectual property rights in 1930s Philippines / Jonas Baes -- Popular culture. The Manila Tertulia in the Spanish and American periods : from private to public sphere / Ma. Patricia Brillantes Silvestre -- A very brief history of the zarzuela in the Philippines / Isidora Miranda -- Opera in the Philippines, 1860s-1940s / Raul Casantusan Navarro -- On the travelling European virtuosos / Crisancti L. Macazo -- The soundscapes of the Manila Carnival / Raul Casantusan Navarro -- Bodabil and its masters / Cristina Maria P. Cayabyab -- The rise of the naughties : humor in Katy de la Cruz's "Bodabil" songs / Maria Rhodora G. Ancheta -- Tapping thoughts on black and brown dances in the Americas / Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz -- Claiming space for the Filipino music in colonial broadcasting : the contribution of radio to Filipino music in the American period / Elizabeth L. Enriquez -- Music and early cinema in the Philippines : evolution of the Filipino musical film / Nick Deocampo -- Music communities. Social networking in musicians' unions and musical associations / Arwin Q. Tan -- Music patronage in colonial Manila / Raul Casantusan Navarro -- The beginnings and development of the orchestra in the Philippines / Edna Marcil M. Martinez -- The Filipino bandmasters of nineteenth-century Spanish regimental bands / Arwin Q. Tan -- The UP ROTC Symphonic Band / Leonardo G. Quinitio

In English.