Music

• Suling - is made mainly of "tamiang" bamboo, a long, thin walled bamboo tube with a mouthpiece circled with a thin band made of rattan near a small hole.
• Kudyapi - is a string instrument made of wood which resembles an elongated guitar usually having 2 string.
• Seronggagandi - a guitar-like made of bamboo, cut before one nod and after next. Two cords are slit loose side by side from the outer skin fibers of the bamboo itself and these are given tension by means of bridges.
• Gabbang - a native xylophone in an instrument bamboo keyboard on top, constructed out of wood
• Kulintang Ensemble - Gong- based ensemble used by the Maguindanao and Maranao of Western Mindanao, Tausug, Yakans, and the Sama- Bajao of the Sulu Archipelago

  Kulintangan/Kwintangan- gongs in a row

  
  

  Tahunggo, Agung, Salmagi, Blowon Semagi- suspended gong ensembles in various names according to each tribe
• Agung - a large, deep rimmed gong, vertically suspended, hanged in wooden frames.
• Kulintang - is an important social property. This instrument of the ensemble is a highly valued priceless heirloom that can command a high price as dowries.
• Lullaby

  a chant style or chant formula use in rocking a baby to sleep

  
  

  YA-YA - a song of the Yakans, to put the baby to sleepsung in a relax/ slow manner, soft and soothing while rocking the baby
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  DIKKER - SACRED SONGS HIGHLIGHTED BY QUOTATIONS FROM THE QU'RAN
• Chants - Lyrical rendition of different improvised text

  a. LUGU - chants that are used in reading Qu'ran and other books used in religion

  
  

  b. KALANGAN - songs used for serenading loved ones

  
  

  c. SA-IL or LUNSEY - an important chant to be sung by the wife-to-be during the ceremony that talks about married life