LESSON 6

THE
PHILIPPINES:
7, 100
ISLANDS,
ONE
COMMON
VOICE
INDIGENOUS
MUSIC OF
NORTHERN
PHILIPPINES
 2 NOTABLE MUSICAL TRADITIONS ( LUZON
ISLANDS )

Negritos People that inhabit the

Cordillera Mountain range
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 MUSIC TRADITIONS
OF THE NEGRITOS

 Marriage rituals
 Healing the sick
 Burial rituals
 Memorials for the dead

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Bansiq – a type of flute

Kudyapi – a two stringed guitar liked

instrument

Kimbal – conical drum

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 MUSIC IN THE SOUTHERN
PHILIPPINES

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 CORDILLERA MOUNTAIN RANGE OF
LUZON
GANGSA
o Flat gongs
o Made from brass and
bronze
o Life cycle celebrations
o Peace parts
o Wedding

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GONGS

o Highly valuable, prestigious instruments

o Maybe offered as dowry for marriage
o Exchange or sold for animals, farm lands or other
necessary commodities

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GONGS CAN BE PLAYED INTO TWO WAYS

TOPAYYA PALOOK
To be struck by hands To be struck by stick
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 THERE ARE OTHER INSTRUMENTS
MADE WITH WOOD AND BAMBOO

Bamboo percussion Bamboo buzzer

(kalinga tongatong) o Kalinga baling bing
o Ifugao bungkaka
o Ibaloi pakkung

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 Bamboo nose flute Bamboo tube zither Three-stringed fiddle
(bontok kaliling ) (illonggot kulibao or
(isneg kuritag ) litlit)

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 NATIVE SOUTHERN
PHILIPPINES

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 GONGS and GONG ensembles

- Gongs in the South are

bosses
-There is a protruding bulge
in the center.
-Sound is fuller, more
projected and more focused.

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AGUNG AND GANDINGAN
oGongs that are
suspended
oHeavier in size
oUsually used as
punctuation in music

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 OTHER INSTRUMENTS

Lip valley flute

(palendang)

(kubing)

Xylophone
(gabbang)

Violen (biola)
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Percussion beams
NATIVE LOCAL GENRES
KUNDIMAN AND KUMINTANG
Two salient vocal idioms of Philippines art music

Kundiman
A type of Filipino art song that is written in triple time usually begins in a minor key.

It is referred to as signature love songs of the country.

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 3 POSSIBLE THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF
THE WORD KUNDIMAN (Reymondo Banas 1969)

1.A contraction of the phase Example:

“kung hindi man” oPakiusap
2.A derivation from the oMadaling araw
verse “hele, hele ng oAnak ng dalita
kundiman
3.The red cloth worn by Composed by:
male dancer in the Francisco Santiago
countryside

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 Other Prolific writers of KUNDIMAN

Nicanor Abelarde Santiago Suarez Antonio Molina Lurecia Kasilag

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 Credits to the real owner of the photos
presented in the presentation!

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