Music of Mindanao

• Kuta - fort
• Batu - stone
• jama mapun - “people of mapun”
• Tausug - also called joloano, sulu, or saluk, one of the largest of the muslim (sometimes called moro) ethnic groups of the southwestern Phillipines
• Yakan - is one of the 13 Moro groups in the Phillipines are originally settling in basilan until political unrest got hold of the island and they were forced to move to the mainland of zamboanga
• Dayunday - free style chant of singing for justice
• Chants - a lyrical rendition of different improvise text
• Lugu - chants they use in reading his/her qur’an and other book they use in their religion
• Kalangan - songs that they use for serenading his/her loved ones
• Sail/lunsey - an important chant to be sung by the wife to be during the ceremony that talks about married life
• Dikker - sacred songs highlighted by quotations from the qur’an
• Bayok - semi-generic term for a lyrical rendition of different improvised text
• Lullaby - a chant style or chant formula use in rocking a baby to sleep
• Ya-ya - is a song of the yakans to put the baby to sleep, sung in a relax/slow manner soft and soothing while rocking the baby
• Bayok - also a maranao term for lullaby
• Palabunibunyan ensemble - the most widely performed instruments of the maguindanao are those that comprise an ensemble of loud instruments
• Kulintang - it consists of eight gongs of graduated sizes placed in a row
• Dabakan - it is an hour glass, conical, or goblet shaped wooden drum covered with skin
• Gandingan - it is also known as “talking gongs” consisting of four suspended gongs with narrow rims
• Agung - it consists of two wide rimmed kettle shaped gongs
• Babandil - it is a small suspended gong played on its rim using a wooden stick
• Kubing - it is a jew’s harp from mindanao it is also a “speaking instrument“
• Kagul - it is a type of bamboo scraper gong used by the maguindanaons and visayans
• Gabbang - it is a bamboo xylomore of the muslims of sulu
• Gandang - it is a double - headed cylindrical drum both ends are covered with animal skin
• Suling - it is the smallest bamboo flute of the maguindanaon
• Kudyapi - a 2 - string lute instruments made of wood which resembles and elongated guitar usually have 2 strings
• Lumad - a collective term for groups of indigenous people from mindanao, which means “native”
• Palabunibunyan ensemble - basalen