MAPEH - Music & Arts

• What is Mindanao also known as?

  The Land of Promise
• What are the two types of vocal music?

  Music for Religious Activities

  Music for Entertainment
• Singing is considered as the oldest means of making music, as it just uses the human voice.
• Melismatic are notes that are sung in one syllable
• With Phrasing are melodies that are divided in phrases
• Monophonic are usually with a single melody
• Use of Tremolos is with trembling effect of a tone
• Strained Voice is reaching high notes with natural voice
• Nasal Enunciation is a voice that has a particular sound because air is going through the nose.
• Chanting is uttering words with melodic sounds
• Darangen - a maranao epic song in the Lake Lanao Region.
• Miminsad - a chanted dance as people walk before the altar.
• Ulaging - recalls the adventure of a major hero Agyu and his sisters and brother.
• Lumad is a visayan word for "indegenous" or "native"
• Subanon is the biggest group of Lumads in Zamboanga Peninsula.
• Buwa - Lullaby
• Ogiloy - Funeral Song
• Odonli - Love song
• The Manobo - is one of the Philippines largest ethic groups. Most singers use their armpits to create rhythmic sounds while singing.
• The Mansaka - is a dominant tribe from the Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley provinces.
• The T'boli - are tribes from South Cotabato. They sing songs on different occasions from fishing to weddings and when they are happy or sad.
• The Bagobo - inhabits the mountain ranges of Mt. Apo and west coast of Davao Gulf.
• Kulintang - is a gong-based instrument and ensemble used for celebrations and rituals.
• Gandingan - a set of four large hanging gongs with narrow rims.
• Agung - is 1-2 big and thick suspended gongs.
• Dabakan - is a one-headed drum that looks like a big goblet.
• Babandil - is a single, narrow gong played as the beat keeper.
• Gabbang is a coffin shaped bamboo xylophone among the Tausug, Samal and Yakan people.
• Seronggandi is a decorated tube of bamboo, closed by a node on both ends.
• Kubing is a mouth resonated jaw harp of Maguindanaon and many other tribes.
• The Bagobo live in the southeastern mindanao, particularly in davao regions.
• The bagobo are famous for producing metal works like knives and bolos.
• The Manobo are scattered in various mindanao provinces.
• The Manobo are also elaborately dressed among the ethnic tribal groups and are well known for their intricate but attractive ethnic dresses.\
• The Mandaya are an indigenous group in southern mindanao known for their beautiful clothing decorations.
• Their popular cloth, dagmay, is made of vegetabled-dyed abaca fibers.
• Dagmay clothing includes a flower and animal shaped pattern.
• Mandaya women wear dagum or cotton blouses.
• Mandaya are well known for their colorful and beautiful earrings, necklaces and bracelet, and more.
• The T'boli wear clothing made of t'nalak and adorn themselves with bronze, brass and golden armlets and leglets