The Manila Chamber Orchestra Foundation, in partnership with the Filipinas Heritage Library, opens its 2012 season this February with a concert series that celebrates not only music about love, but music that we truly love. MORE
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Cenizal, Josefino
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| Lyricist: | Josefino Ymzon Cenizal |
| Performer: | Leopoldo Silos (and his orchestra) |
| Album: | Love Songs (Leopoldo Silos & his Orchestra) |
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| Key / Mode: | F minor - F major |
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| Genre: | Songs of Love and Courtship |
| Form: | Danza |
| Historical Period: | American Period |
| Date of Composition: | 1940 |
| Movie Scoring: | Composed for the movie "Rosa Birhen" which was directed by and starred Cenizal. Also used as title/theme song of a Carmen Rosales and Leopoldo Salcedo starrer directed by Eddie Romero in 1948. |
| About the Song: | Like the traditional love songs of its epoch, the song, which tells of a love that cannot be forgotten, "begins in the lower case mode, sweeping toward a refrain of harmonic sensuality." (From the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, vol. 6, p. 240-241) |
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