Filipino Vocal Music Description Quiz

Traditional Instruments of Mindanao

• Gandingan, a type of "talking gongs", consists of four suspended gongs with narrow rims and is played with two light-padded mallets.
• Kudyapi is a two-stringed instrument from Mindanao.
• Kubing is a mouth-blown instrument held horizontally with a bamboo tongue, and can be played solo or in an ensemble.
• Kagul is a bamboo scraper or a slit drum with jagged edges.
• Luntang is a type of xylophone used for various purposes, including keeping farmers awake while scaring birds away from fields.
• Gabbang is a bamboo xylophone from Sulu, made of wood with a trapezoidal shape.
• Gandang is a double-headed cylindrical drum from Maranaos, with both ends covered with animal skin.
• Suling is the smallest bamboo flute from Maguindanao, with five finger holes.

Vocal Music of Islamic Filipinos

• Langan Bata Bata is a lullaby of the Tausug.
• Tarasul is a Tausug song of advice to the wedded couple.
• Dekir is a Maranao's death song.
• Salathul Juma is a Friday prayer chant.
• Mimisad is a song and dance chanted as people walk before the altar.

Vocal Music of Non-Islamic Filipinos

• Sunda-ay is a Wedding Chant sung before inviting the groom's party to enter the bride's house.
• Balow is a song for the dead husband of Matifsalug.
• Ulag Lng is a lament song of Manobo.
• Balatuking is a Manobo's harvest song.
• Diwata is a curing ceremony of Subanon.

Instrumental Music of Mindanao

• Palabunibunyan Ensemble (Kulintang Ensemble) is a loud instruments ensemble mainly comprised of gongs with boss, played by either men or women except the agung, and is used for merrymaking.
• Kulintang is a set of eight graduated-sized gongs placed in a row, played by striking the bosses of a knot of the gongs with two wooden sticks.
• Dabakan is an hour-glass, conical, or goblet-shaped wooden drum covered with animal skin, played using two wooden sticks.
• Babandil is a small suspended gong played on its rim using a wooden stick, used primarily as the timekeeper of the Maguindanao kulintang ensemble.
• Agung is a type of gong, consisting of two wide-rimmed, kettle-shaped gongs.