This document discusses different types of Philippine folk literature, including folk songs and folktales. It provides examples of famous Philippine folk songs like "Leron Leron Sinta" and analyzes the cultural themes and traditional melodies used. The document also categorizes common types of folktales, such as animal tales, wonder tales, cumulative tales, and pourquoi tales which seek to explain natural phenomena. Overall, the document outlines how folk literature expresses the culture, traditions, and ways of life of the Filipino people.

1. Prepared by:
Labesores, Jhony M. BSED-MAPE II

2.  a narrative songs that use traditional melodies
 written in a style that entails the traditional culture of
Filipinos
 It is a tale song typically about a community of people of
a certain culture or region, which uses customary tune to
depict on the people’s outlook and life.

3.  a form of folk lyric which expresses the people’s hopes,
aspirations, and lifestyles
 one of the oldest forms of Philippine literature that emerged in
the pre-Spanish period. These songs mirrored the early forms
of culture. Many of these have 12 syllables.
 serves as celebration of their way of life and cultural practices
 sung with theme such as love, happiness, bliss, melancholy,
misery, uncertainty, trust and distress.

4.  kundiman – melancholic love song
 kumintang – war song
 Dalit o Imno- Song of the God of the Visayans
 Uyayi o hele – lullaby
 harana – serenade
 tagay – drinking song
 mambayu – Kalinga rice-pounding song
 Subli o diona – dance-ritual song of courtship
/marriage
 Tagulaylay o dungaw- songs of the dead
Kinds of Folk songs:

5.  Leron Leron Sinta (Traditional folk song)
Famous Philippine folk songs:
Ako’y ibigin mo,
lalaking matapang
Ang sundang ko’y pito,
ang baril ko’y siyam.
Ang lalakarin ko’y
parte ng dinulang.
Isang pinggang pansit,
ang aking kalaban!
Leron, leron sinta
buto ng papaya
dala-dala’y buslo
sisidlan ng bunga
pagdating sa dulo
nabali ang sanga
kapos kapalaran
humanap ng iba!

6.  Leron Leron Sinta (English version by Roberto Verzola)
Famous Philippine folk songs:
I offer you my love,
my courage suits you fine.
I’ve got me seven knives,
I’m keeping nine more
guns.
A journey, I will make
to distant parts beyond.
A plate of noodles is
the foe I will engage!
Leron, leron my love,
papaya seeds above.
He took a bamboo box
to keep the fruits he’d get.
Then as he neared the top,
the entire branch broke up.
“It’s not my lucky day;
I’ll find another way!”

7.  Si Pilemon
(Visayan Folk song)
Famous Philippine folk songs:
Philemon, Philemon went
to sea to catch some fish
He was able to get, to get
only a small mudskipper.
He sold it, sold it at a
dilapidated market
For it he got nothing much,
nothing much
Just enough to buy tuba.
Si Pilemon, si Pilemon
namasol sa kadagatan.
Nakakuha, nakakuha og
isdang tambasakan.
Gibaligya, gibaligya sa
merkadong guba—
Ang halin pulos kura, ang
halin pulos kura,
Igo lang ipanuba.
 Si Pilemon
(English Translation)

8.  Pamulinawen
(Ilocano Folk Song)
Famous Philippine folk songs:
Issemmo diak kalipatan
Ta nasudi unay a nagan,
Ta uray sadin ti ayan,
Disso sadino man,
{Aw-awagak a di agsarday
Ta naganmo nga kasam-itan}
No malagipka, pusok ti
mabang-aran
Pamulinawen
Pusok indengam man
Toy umas-asug
Agrayo ita sadiam.
Panunotem man
Dika pagintutulngan
Toy agayat, agrayo ita
sadiam.

9. Famous Philippine folk songs:
 Pamulinawen
(English Translation)
Please do not be upset,
That was just a joke
It won’t happen again,
Have faith, my Darling.
If you are still angry,
Punish me completely
And you will expect
That I won’t feel bad.

10.  made up of stories about life, adventure, love, horror
and humor where one can derive lessons about life.
 stories that grew out of the lives and imaginations of
the people, or folk. They have always been children’s
favorite type of folk literature.
 classified as myths, legends, fables, and fantastic
stories

11.  Animal tales
- perhaps the oldest of all folktales
- short tales generally involving animals which
convey a message or virtue. The usual form is the
comparison between two animals to emphasize
the moral.
Examples :
Kinds of Folktales

12.  Wonder tales (also known as fairy tales)
- the best known of the traditional folktales
- They are stories of supernatural wonders typically
depicting the conflict between good and evil.
Examples:
Kinds of Folktales

13.  Cumulative tales
- the ones in which successive additions are made to a
repetitive plot line.
- they are generally very simple in plot and brief, for
with each addition, the entire sequence is repeated..
Examples:
Kinds of Folktales

14.  Pourquoi tales
- (“pourquoi” means “why” in French) seeks to
explain natural phenomena. They provide primitive
explanations for the many “why” questions early
humans asked.
Examples:
Kinds of Folktales

15.  Noodlehead tales (Numskull tales)
- light-hearted tales about silly people doing silly
things. These tales are popular because of their pure
nonsense and jocularity, and sometimes we enjoy the
triumph of the good-hearted simpleton over the
craftier evil characters of the story.
Examples:
Kinds of Folktales

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