music semi finals

• folk song

  traditional and collective music of a town, province, or country
• rhythm

  may peken to the timer of a musical sound
• melody

  it is the main tune
• harmony

  is made with different tones that blend well together
• timbre

  is the unique quality of sound produced by a given instrument or voice
• dynamics

  are simply how you control the loudness or softness of parts of music
• sacred or religious music

  is performed or composed for church gatherings and fellowships
• pastores

  christmas folk song and dance
• senakulo

  potrays the life,sufferings and death of Jesus
• Pasyon

  is played during lenten season, potraying the events of the old and new testaments
• salubong

  celebrated during predawn of eastee sunday
• Flores de mayo

  is a spanish phrase for “flowers of may”

  it is a festival held in the philippines to honor the blessed virgin mary
• oggayam

  is sung by the kalinga people at social gatherings
• salimdumay

  is a response song of young women to the kalkalimusca songs of man during weaving season
• badiw

  ibaloi ceremonial song for the dead
• tongatong

  a bamboo percussion instrument by the people of kalinga

  used to communicate spirits during house blessings
• gangsa

  toppaya and patung
• bungkaka

  believed to drive away evil spirits when walming alone in the mountains
• saggepyo

  it is played in an esemble with one player holding one flute
• kubing

  held horizontally with the bamboo infront of the opened mouth
• tongali

  nose flute
• palawan

  known as the country’s “last frontier”
• mangyan

  they are the standard term for the indigenous groups of mindanao
• tagbanua

  one of the largest spoken dialects

  they live in remote villages in the mountains and coastal lands
• shaman

  their tribe leader where they communicate there music through
• ambahan

  the mangyan’s poetic, rhymthic, and monophonic chant
• batac

  is a long song telling the adventures of a mythical peron named dumaracol
• baybayin

  a religous leader, shaman, healer and seer
• binanog

  a “bird dance” and a courtship dance from Panay-Bukidnon
• Mindanao

  Land of the promise
• melismatic

  many notes sung in one syllable
• use of trembles

  trembling effect of tome
• with phrasing

  melodies divided into phrases
• monophonic

  usually in single melody
• strained voice

  reaching high notes with a natural voice
• Nasal Enunciation

  voice has a particular sound because of air
• rajah indaptra

  folk epics in maguindanao
• taraweeh

  which is chanted during the salathul juma or islamic friday prayer chant
• darangen

  maranao epic song in the Lake Lanao region
• mimisad

  chanted dance as people walk before the altar