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• Three famous everyday style chants

  • Lugu-chants used in reading Quran and books they use beiram religion
  • GETRYL GUALBERTO
  • MUSIC 7
• The coastal and lowland areas of western Mindanao are homes of the Islamic cultures
• Folk culture and court music dating way back in the 10th century or even much earlier are integrated in the musical traditions of the pre-Islamic culture
• Music is frowned upon the fundamental Islamic view, but the influx of foreign Islamic cultures of the Arabs and Persians, has changed this view
• The musical practices of the people in the coastal and lowland areas of Western Mindanao are vital element in their social life are the main source of their ethnic identities
• The musical practices of these indigenous people are a mixture of Western and Non-western ideas
• Islamic community in the Philippines consists of ethno-linguistic groups

  • Maguinadanao of Cotabato
  • Maranao of Lanao and Cotabato
  • Samal and Jama Mapun of the Sulu Islands of Sibutu and Cagayan De Sulu
• Two distinct types of songs popular in Mindanao

  • Chant
  • Lullaby
• Chant


  A short simple melody in which several words or syllables are asseo onenote. It is a lyrical rendition of different improvised text
• Religious chants


  • Friday noon service
  • Celebration of the Molud or Mawid
  • Puwasa or Ramadan
  • Periodic commemoration of the dead
• Yakans chanting


  Solo and counter sing or group singing
• Chants


  • Salathul Juma - Friday prayer chant
  • Tarawe-chanting
• Chants


  • Rajah of the Indar patra
  • Magulang
  • Kalangan-songs used for serenading loved ones
  • Sa-il/Lunsey-a chant to be sung by the wife-to during the ceremony
• Maranao vocal repertoire


  • Dikker- sacred songs highlighted by quotation from Quran
  • Bayok semi-genetic term for a lyrical rendition of different improvised text Folk Epic
• Folk Epics


  • Rajah Indarapatra - Maguindanao
  • Darangen-Maranao
• Lullaby


  A chant-style or chant formulaed for rocking a baby to sleep
• Lullabies


  • Ya-ya- of Yakus to put the baby to sleep
  • Bayok-Maranao term for lullaby
• These are secular songs, such as love songs, legends and lullabies
• Mindanao is the most culturally diverse island in the Philippines where people of different languages, tribes and meet
• Mindanao became a melting pot of different cultures, it creates a more distinct culture which is not penting island
• Mindanao has been the seat of two great Sultanates namely the Sultan Sultanate of Maguindanao along with the most hispanized city in Asia, strategic Zamboanga
• Mindanao has a number of Buddhist and Yaoist temples and the indigenous tribes known as Lumad people
• Lumad


  Indigenous to distinguish themselves from the Christians and Muslims in Mindanao
• Lumad are non-Muslim or non-Christian, although their cultural orientation appears to be toward the Muslim groups
• Language is the only differentiating element in ethnic cultures, particularly among those which occupy adjacent and contiguous territory
• Most of the ICC in Mindanao speak languages belonging to the Manobo family of languages (except the Blaan, Tboli and Teduray)
• Lumad vocal music


  • Characterized by chants and different types of songs such as the dionill (love song), buwa (lullaby), and so balikaga (melodic pattern for debates, converstions), lendugan (love song), siasid (song during weddings),and meka meka (song of loyalty by a wife to her husband)
• Lumad vocal music


  • Encompasses a wide repertoire of sounds performed for various occasions, and makes use of an extensive array of musical instruments
• Lumad vocal music


  • Includes ritual songs, narrative songs, lullabies, and songs of nature, that may also be accompanied by rhythmic sounds from the singer's armpit
• Joey Ayala


  A Filipino singer, songwriter and former chairman of the committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, known for his style of music that combines the sounds of Filipino ethnic instruments with modern pop music
• Instruments used by Joey Ayala

  • Two-stringed Negalong of the TBoli people, Kulintang, the melodical gong-rack of the indigenous peoples of the southern part of the country, the Rubing, the bamboo jaw harp found in various forms throughout the Philippines and the B-gong
• Joey Ayala also uses modern instruments in his music, such as the electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesiser/sequencer and drums
• The name of his band "Bagong Lumad" literally means "New Native"-a name and philosophy that has been carried over into Bagong Lumad Artists Foundation, Inc. (www.ball.org)
• Some of Joey Ayala's hit singles are Tabs Po, Papel, Magkaugnay (Ang Lahat Ng Bagry), and Karaniwang Tao
• Karaniwang Tao by Joey Ayala is a Lumad Music song
• The Kulintang repertoire may consist of a suite of pieces based on meladie- rhythmic modes such as ulug tid, bialy and Langings of the Maguindanao
• The denomination and features of the Kulintang instrument can change depending of the tribal group
• Sarok


  Cross right hand over the left or vice versa
• Tribal dances


  • Performed essentially for the gods
  • Intertwined with rituals
• Subli


  A rural form of ceremonial worship dance in Batangas honoring the Holy Cross