Music of Mindanao

1. Chant a lyrical rendition of different improvised text.

2. Lugu – unaccompanied songs associated with traditional rites.
3. Kalangan -is Tausug vocal music. It can be divided into narrative and lyric
songs, and further into the lugu and the paggabang traditions. The luguh
traditio-n denotes unaccompanied religious songs, while the paggabang
tradition applies to "more mundane" songs that are accompanied by the
gabbang and biyula.
4. Sa-il/Lunsey – an important chant to be sing by the wife -to-be-during the
ceremony that talks about married life.
5. Dikker – sacred songs highlighted ny quotations from Qur’an
6. Bayok – semi-generic term for a lyrical rendition of different improvised
text.
7. Lullaby- Baby song to sleep
8. Ya-ya - is a song of the Yakans to put the baby to sleep, sun in a relax or
slow manner, soft and soothing while rocking the baby.
9. Kulintang ensemble -– a gong-based ensemble used by the Maguindanao
and Maranao of Western Mindanao, the Tausug, the Yakan, and the Sama-
Bajao of the Sulu archipelago. They have varied functions but are mostly
used for celebrations / rituals and are mainly divided into three parts: 1.
Kulintang Ensemble 2. Bamboo Ensemble 3. Solo Instruments
10.Kulintang (Manobo Cotabato) / Kwintangan – ensembles of 6 -8 hanging or
placed melody gongs in a row , hung in a pyramidal order, with the smaller
and higher-pitched gongs near the top
11.Agung – a large, deep rimmed gong, vertically suspended, hanged in
wooden frames.
12.Gabbang – a native xylophone in Sulu, a bamboo keyboard on top,
constructed out of wood. Ordinarly, its main body is shaped like a coffin;
keys are struck with the 2 mallets, each with a strip of rubber fastened to
its underside.
13.Serongagandi – a guitar like made of bamboo. Two chords are slit loose side
from the outer skin fibers of the bamboo itself and these are given tension
by means of bridges. A hole is cut into the bamboo under the 2 chords that
serves as resounding
14.Kudyapi - is a 2 string plucked lute instrument made of wood which
resembles an elongated guitar usually having 2 strings. It varies in sizes, but
normally it is about one and a half meter long. It is held in the performer’s
lap like a guitar, the left hand slides back and forth between the frets; the
middle finger of the right plucks both the melody and strings with a rattan
plectrum or kubit.
15.Suling-Suling – (Maguindanao and Yakan’s) is made mainly of “tamiang”
bamboo, a long, thin- walled bamboo tube. Its mouth piece is circled with a
thin band made of rattan near a small hole.
16.Lumads - a collective term for groups of the indigenous people from
Mindanao, which means native.