Mindanao's Vocal Music Styles Quiz

Mindanao's Vocal Music

• Mindanao's vocal music includes chants, lullabies, and other musical styles.
• Chants are poetic interpretations of impromptu texts.

Types of Chants

• Lugu-chants are used in reading the Qur'an and Islamic books.
• Kalangan-songs are used for serenading loved ones.
• Sail/Lunsey is a chant sung by the wife-to-be during the ceremony.
• Dikker are sacred songs highlighted by Qur'anic quotations.
• Bayok is a semi-generic term for lyrical renditions of improvised texts.

Lullabies

• Lullaby is a chant technique or formula for rocking a baby to sleep.
• Ya-ya is a Yakan song for putting the baby to sleep.
• Bayok is a Maranao term for lullaby.

Kulintang Ensemble

• A Maguindanaoan kulintang ensemble is a gong-chime collection of instruments important to the Maguindanao people in the Southern Philippines.
• Kulintang music is used for celebratory occasions such as festivals, weddings, engagement parties, and baptisms, as well as in musical competitions.

Instruments of the Ensemble

• The main melodic instrument is the kulintang, consisting of eight knobbed bronze gongs graduated in pitch.
• The kulintang sits on a wooden stand called an antangan.
• The dabakan is a gourd-shaped drum that provides the rhythm to the ensemble.
• The babandil is a medium-sized knobbed gong that is the ensemble's timekeeper.
• The gandingan is composed of four hanging gongs, also known as the "talking gongs".
• The agung (or agong) are two large gongs that provide the bass register to the ensemble.