Video Information

• Choir: Philippine Madrigal Singers
• Piece: III. Sagayan (from Manga Pakalagian)
• Composer:  Nilo Alcala
• Conductor:  Mark Anthony Carpio
• Voices:  SATB
• Sheet Music:   www.niloalcala.com/contac...  
• Genres: Classical, Folk/Ethnic, Contemporary
• III Sagayán (Pre-Battle Ceremony) from Mangá Pakalagián (Ceremonies)
  Composer (Music and Text) - (Nilo Alcala)
  Maguindanaon translation - Danongan Danny Kalanduyan
  Philippine Madrigal Singers (Mark Anthony Carpio, Choirmaster)
  moreIII Sagayán (Pre-Battle Ceremony) from Mangá Pakalagián (Ceremonies)
  Composer (Music and Text) - (Nilo Alcala)
  Maguindanaon translation - Danongan Danny Kalanduyan
  Philippine Madrigal Singers (Mark Anthony Carpio, Choirmaster)
  performed at the 2017 European Grand Prix for Choral Singing
  EGP 2017, Tolosa, Spain
  
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  Composer's notes on MANGA PAKALAGIAN*)
  
  (*Manga Pakalagian - was commissioned and premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Grant Gershon at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Nov. 15, 2015)
  
  I grew up in the Philippines where culture is as colorful and diverse as the number of its islands — all 7,107 of it. A quick Google search of “Philippine History” will give you a peak at our rich history of pre-colonial kingdoms (rajahnates, sultanates, etc.) which began to rise about 900 AD. Prior to Christianization of the Central and Northern parts, and even prior to the Islamization of the Southern parts of the country — these Philippine kingdoms shared with its neighboring Southeast-Asian lands a gong-chime culture that has, at the center of its music-making, a set of graduated and bossed pot gongs. The Philippines’ very own bossed gongs we call kulintang. Our rich pre-colonial kulintang music remained intact up to this very day, yet the general musical culture of the country has been arguably enriched by the active trading within the Asian region, as well as the Spanish colonial rule (for 300 years), the brief British Invasion, the American occupation, and the Japanese occupation.
  
  CEREMONIES: music and community
  The playing of kulintang (which refers both to the repertoire played as well as the actual instrumental set of bossed gongs) — is very much integrated in the everyday life of Mindanao communities especially in Maguindanao where the Kalanduyans hail from. In almost every occasion, there is a specific kulintang piece to be played; the playing of this music somewhat e...    less