2. Objectives:
• ·Describes the origins and cultural
background of selected Philippine
festival
• ·Describes how the music contributes to
the performance of the musical
production
• ·Describes how a specific idea or story is
communicated through music in a
particular Philippine musical theater
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27. Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Place a T on the line if you think a
statement is TRUE. Place an F on the line if you think the statement is FALSE.
1. The Ati-Atihan Festival is a feast held in honor of the Santo Niño held annually in
January concluding on third Sunday, in the town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines.
2. Dinagyang is festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño (Holy Child),
patron of the City of Cebu
3. The Sinulog is a religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the
fourth Sunday of January
4. Panagbenga Festival in Baguio was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as
a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.
5. The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of
Marinduque.
28. Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Place a T on the line if you think a
statement is TRUE. Place an F on the line if you think the statement is FALSE.
6. The Ati-atihan Festival is a week-long festival held each year in Bacolod City, the
capital of Negros Occidental province.
7. The word MassKara has a double meaning. First, it is a fusion of the English word
“mass” or many and “kara”, the Spanish word for “face.”
8. Higantes Festivals features a parade of hundreds of higantes, paper-mache giants
9. Longanisa Festival is celebrated every July 25 in Dapitan City Zamboanga del Norte
Philippines
10. The Pintados de Pasi Festival, in Passi City, central of Iloilo province, is perhaps
one of the best known and established festivals of the Visayan region that have
evolved through the years
