Kundiman

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Kundiman is a genre of traditional Filipino love songs. The lyrics are written in Filipino. The melody is characterized by smooth, flowing and gentle rhythm with dramatic intervals. Kundiman is also the traditional means of serenade in the Philippines.

The kundiman came to the fore as an art song at the end of the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth, when Filipino composers such as Francisco Santiago and Nicanor Abelardo formalized the musical structure and sought poetry for their lyrics, blending verse and music in equal parts.

The melody and sentiment of the kundiman tends not only toward the melancholy but also the cheerful, and the commitment of the heart to passion is celebrated in every piece. The singer of the kundiman expresses the pain and beauty of love felt by every listener, for the kundiman is not merely entertainment but an embodiment of collective emotion.

Endowed with such power, the kundiman naturally came to serve as a vehicle for veiled patriotism in times of colonial oppression, in which the love for a woman symbolized the love of country and desire for freedom.

Kundiman is also derived from the phrase "kung hindi man" in Tagalog which means "if it were not so."

It is also a common street name in Metropolitan Manila.

Officially known as "Musica del Legitimo Kundiman Procedente del Campo Insurecto (Music of the Legitimate Kundiman that Proceeds from the Insurgents)", "Jocelynang Baliwag" was said to be the favorite kundiman among the revolutionaries of Bulacan during the Philippine Revolution of 1896 - earning it the title "Kundiman of the Revolution". In the guise of a love and courtship song, it features lyrics dedicated to a young and beautiful Filipina idolized in the Bulacan town of Baliwag named Josefa 'Pepita' Tiongson y Lara.

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