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The Cordillera Region: Vocal and Instrumental Music

The document summarizes vocal and instrumental music traditions in the Cordillera region of the Philippines. It describes various genres of vocal music associated with occasions like peace pacts, healing rituals, courtship, and death rites. Representative vocal genres include lullabies, courtship songs, love incantations, and entertainment songs. It also outlines several indigenous bamboo instruments from the region like the kubing jaw harp, saggeypo bamboo flute, diwdid-as bamboo pipes, and the patatag bamboo xylophone.

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The Cordillera Region: Vocal and Instrumental Music

The document summarizes vocal and instrumental music traditions in the Cordillera region of the Philippines. It describes various genres of vocal music associated with occasions like peace pacts, healing rituals, courtship, and death rites. Representative vocal genres include lullabies, courtship songs, love incantations, and entertainment songs. It also outlines several indigenous bamboo instruments from the region like the kubing jaw harp, saggeypo bamboo flute, diwdid-as bamboo pipes, and the patatag bamboo xylophone.

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THE CORDILLERA

REGION
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
• The region is known for its best and unique bamboo musical
instruments that are used in celebrating gatherings, festivals and
ceremonies. The highlights of the life of people in their places are
reflected in their music.
VOCAL MUSIC OF CORDILLERA
There are different performance practices in the cordillera that are related to
different occasions such as:
• Peace pacts
• Healing rituals
• Invocations of the gods
• Courtship and marriage
• Death rites
• Other life cycle events such as birth etc.

Vocal genres among the ethnic communities may be identified according to their
social functions.
LULLABY
• Owawi (Kalinga)
Other infancy related songs
• Dagaday and Oppia (Kalinga)
• Langan bata-bata (Tausog)
• Bua (Subanen)
• Kawayanna (Kalinga)
COURTSHIP
• Dajeng (kankana-ey)
• Batac inanen, estijaro of the Tagacaolo
• Bandayuy of the Matigsalog
LOVE INCANTATIONS
• Antong (Manobo) – Match making
• Sindaay, tarasul (Tausog)
• Tamuyong, dango and oggayam – songs of greetings and advice
during a kalinga wedding.
ENTERTAINMENT SONGS
• Salidummay, dodong-ay Bayok (Mandaya)
• Limbay (Manobo)
• Tamiya (Ibaloi) Allegorical Ballad
WORK SONGS
• Duduru (Aeta) and Gagonapu (Subanen) – referring to both fishing
and hunting.
• Dandannag and Owayat (Kalinga) – gathering firewood
• Didayu (Gatac) – making wine
• Sowe-ey (Bontoc) – rice pounding song
DEATH RITES
• Didiyaw (Bontoc)
• Balow – sung by the Matigsalog wife to honor her husbands death
• Ulaging (Manobo)
• Sangsangit (Isneg)
REPRESENTATIVE SONGS/GENRE
• Salidummay – a song from Cordillera specifically from the people of
Ifugao, Bontoc province. This is sung in many occasions of the ethnic
groups such as weddings, festival and rituals. Its musical elements
may include duple meter, pentatonic scale, and a simple rhythm.
• Ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPF6QWn3-hA
BADIW
• From the tribe of the Ibaloi.
• an example of responsorial singing
• Sung alternately by different persons
• Sung phrase by phrase, and it is reechoed phrase by phrase
Ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfeV9KK56v0
OGGAYAM
• Seven-tone scale, modal, wide range, non-metric, fast tempo,
monophonic in texture and strophic in form.
• Friendship, cooperation, and unity are the best major virtues that
most Kalingas exhibit.
• Used by a solo performer in counseling, storytelling, and entertaining
the community in any occasion.
Ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfeV9KK56v0
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
KUBING
• KUBING (JEWS HARP) – this
instrument is held
horizontally with the tongue
in front of the opened mouth
while the left end is either
strummed by the thumb or
plucked
• idiophone
SAGGEYPO
• A bamboo pipe that is
close on one end by a
node with the open end
held against the lower
lip of the player as it is
blown directly across
the top.
• Aerophone
DIWDIW-AS
• Five or more
different sizes of
slender bamboos
that are tied
together.
• aerophone
TONGATONG
• Sets of five to six
bamboo tubes with
one hole on top in
graduated sizes.
• Idiophones
BUNGKAKA
• Bamboo buzzer
• idiophone
PATATAG
• Bamboo
xylophone
• idiophone

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