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Harana was a traditional form of courtship in the Philippines wherein men introduced themselves and/or wooed

women by singing underneath her window at night. It was widely practiced in old Philippines with a set of
protocols, a code of conduct and a specific style of music.

Folk song-a song originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or
generation to the next, often existing in several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and
stanzaic, narrative verse.

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

Devotion also means a commitment or dedication to some purpose. Your devotion recycling is noble, but can you
wait until I've read the newspaper? The plural noun devotions can have a religious meaning too, meaning prayers
offered to God.

An aerophone is any musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without
the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the
sound.

A chordophone is a musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between
two points. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical
instrument classification.

An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—
without the use of strings or membranes. It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel–Sachs
scheme of musical instrument classification (see List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number). The early
classification of Victor-Charles Mahillon called this group of instruments autophones.
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched
membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical
instrument classification.

A Electrophone any of a class of musical instruments (such as a synthesizer or electric organ) whose sound is
generated electronically

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