What are the different classifications of music in the Philippines?

Philippine Music is divided into four eras or traditions, namely the Ethnic, Spanish Colonial, American Colonial and Contemporary tradition.

What is Filipino music genre?

What are the classification of Filipinos?

Officially, of course, Filipinos are categorized as Asians and the Philippines as part of Southeast Asia. But describing Filipinos as Pacific Islanders isn’t necessarily wrong either. In fact, for a long time, Filipinos were known as Pacific Islanders.

How is folk music classified in the Philippines?

A frequently used system is to classify it according to ethno-linguistic or cultural divisions: for example, traditional Tagalog music, which is somewhat more Hispanic in flavour, differs from Ifugao music and Maranao kulintang music. A commonality is that vocal music is of significant import to every ethnic group in the country.

Which is the most important form of Philippine music?

After vocal music, dance music is the next most important form of traditional Philippine music. As mentioned above, the best form of preserved music are those with lyrics, and this is also true for music intended to accompany a dance.

How many genres are there in Filipino music?

A collection of 1000 songs, having 100 instances as representatives for each of the 10 genres from songs sang and composed by Filipino artists were used as data for the features in building the model.

How are classifiers used to classify Filipino music?

Different classifiers where employed to test and see which musical features specific for Filipino music are highlighted and can be attributed for further study. A multi-layer perceptron was selected most optimal for the model building.