This document provides information on the music of Mindanao, particularly among Islamic communities. It discusses various vocal music styles like chants used for reading scripture or serenading among groups like the Yakan and Maranao. Musical instruments featured include the kulintang ensemble which uses gongs and drums, as well as bamboo-based instruments like the gabbang xylophone and serongagandi guitar. The kulintang in particular holds cultural and economic significance as valuable heirlooms and status symbols.

1. Music of Mindanao
Moro/Islamic Music

4. Vocal Music of Mindanao
The Islamic community in the Philippines consists of ethno-
linguistic groups:
-the Maguindanao of Cotabato
The Maranao of Lanao and Cotabato
The Samal and Jama Mapun of the Sulu islands of Sibutu and
Cagayan de Sulu
The Tausug of the Sulu Islands of Jolo, Siasi and Tawi-Tawi
The Yakan of Basilan and Zamboanga

6. Activity: Exploring
Music from
Mindanao
Reflect on the ff. questions as you watch
and listen to an example of music from
Mindanao.
a. What do you think is
the message of the
music?
b. How were the
musical instruments
used in bringing about
the message?

7. CHANTS- a lyrical rendition of different
improvised text
Yakans do his/her chantings through solo and counter or groups
singing. His/her three famous everyday style chants are:
1. LUGU-chants that they use in reading his/her Qur’an and
other books they use in his/her Islam region
2. Kalangan-songs that they use for serenading his/her loved
ones.
3. Sa-il/Lunsey- an important chant to be sung by the wife-to-be
during the ceremony that talks about married life.

8. Maranaos have an extensive vocal repertoire
such as:
a. Dikker-sacred songs highlighted by quotations from the Qur’an
b. Bayok-semi-generic term for a lyrical rendition of different
improvised text.

9. 2. Lullaby- a chant-style formula use in
rocking a baby to sleep
1. Ya-ya- is a song of the yakans to put the baby to sleep, sung
in a relax/slow manner, soft and soothing while rocking the
baby
2. Bayok-is also a Maranao term for lullaby

10. Instrumental Music
Kulintang Ensemble- Gong based used by the Maguindanao and
Maranao of western Mindanao, the Tausug, the Yakan, and the
Sulu archipelago. They have varied functions but are mostly used
for celebrations/rituals and mainly divided into two types:
*Kulintangan (Manobo Cotabato)/ Kwintangan- emsembles of 6-
8 hanging melody gongs in a row, hung on ropes in pyramidal
order, with the smaller and higher-pitched gongs near the top.

11. *Tahunggo-Agung, Salmagi, BlowonSemagi- suspended gong
ensembles ( 9-11 gongs, played a melody and drone player) in
various names according to each tribe, ensemble maybe
completed with 1 0r 2 drums

12. Kulintang

13. Agung

14. • Kulintang-is an important social property. This instrument of the
ensemble is a highly valued priceless heirloom that can
command a high price as dowries.The ownership of these
instruments indicates high social status and cultivated taste.
• Agung- a large, deep-rimmed gong, vertically suspended,
hanged in wooden frames.

15. • Bamboo Ensemble- According to Philippine legends, the first
man and woman are born out of bamboo. Bamboo is also
considered among early Filipinos as spiritual connection from
our physical world to the spiritual.

16. • gabbang- a native xylophone in Sulu, a bamboo keyboard on
top, constructed out of wood. Ordinarily, its main body is shaped
like a coffin; keys are struck with 2 mallets, each with a strip of
rubber fastened to its underside.

17. • gabbang- a native xylophone in Sulu, a bamboo keyboard on
top, constructed out of wood. Ordinarily, its main body is shaped
like a coffin; keys are struck with 2 mallets, each with a strip of
rubber fastened to its underside.

18. Serongagandi
•
A guitar-like made of bamboo,
cut before one nod and after
next. Two cords are slit loose
side by side from the outer skin
fibers of the bamboo itself and
these are given tension by
means of bridges. A hole is
then cut into the bamboo just
under the 2 cords, to serve as
resounding holes.

19. Gandingan
• has a narrower, very slightly turned-in rims and their bosses are
not prominent as the agung’s. They are hung and played
individually or in ensembles.

20. Quiz Time!
Identify the different
instruments in Mindanao
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