The document discusses the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon Island in the Philippines. It describes how the Spanish conquistadors named the mountain range "Cordillera", meaning "knotted rope", due to the jumbled rolls and dips of the mountain terrain. It discusses the six main ethno-linguistic tribes that inhabit the Cordillera - the Bontoc, Ifugao, Benguet, Apayo, Kalinga tribes - and how they have maintained their unique cultures and traditions despite changes over time.
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The document discusses the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon Island in the Philippines. It describes how the Spanish conquistadors named the mountain range "Cordillera", meaning "knotted rope", due to the jumbled rolls and dips of the mountain terrain. It discusses the six main ethno-linguistic tribes that inhabit the Cordillera - the Bontoc, Ifugao, Benguet, Apayo, Kalinga tribes - and how they have maintained their unique cultures and traditions despite changes over time.
The document discusses the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon Island in the Philippines. It describes how the Spanish conquistadors named the mountain range "Cordillera", meaning "knotted rope", due to the jumbled rolls and dips of the mountain terrain. It discusses the six main ethno-linguistic tribes that inhabit the Cordillera - the Bontoc, Ifugao, Benguet, Apayo, Kalinga tribes - and how they have maintained their unique cultures and traditions despite changes over time.
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The document discusses the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon Island in the Philippines. It describes how the Spanish conquistadors named the mountain range "Cordillera", meaning "knotted rope", due to the jumbled rolls and dips of the mountain terrain. It discusses the six main ethno-linguistic tribes that inhabit the Cordillera - the Bontoc, Ifugao, Benguet, Apayo, Kalinga tribes - and how they have maintained their unique cultures and traditions despite changes over time.
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Cordillera
Cordillera, a name given by the Spanish
Conquistadors when they first saw the mountain ranges. Meaning "knotted rope", the Spanish term refers to the jumbled rolls and dips of this long-range traversing the northern part of Luzon Island. Today, if one is to generalize one of the six ethno-linguistic tribes as an "Igorot" is They are pagan people, living simple lives to considered degrading. Living amidst the rice appease their gods. Their rituals celebrate their terraces that tower over Northern Luzon are a daily lives - a good harvest, health, peace, war, and people whose way of life existed long before any other symbols of living. Such traditions have Spaniard or other foreigners stepped foot on the survived the changing scope of the Philippines Philippines. The Bontoc, Ifugao, Benguet, Apayo, and the tribes continue to maintain their cultures and the Kalinga tribes reign over Luzon's that are a part of the colorful cultural fabric known mountain terrain. as Philippine culture.
Banga
Banga Tribe: Kalinga
"Banga" literally mean pots. The Banga or pot dance is a contemporary performance of Kalinga of the Mountain Province in the Philippines. This dance illustrate the languid grace of a tribe otherwise known as fierce warriors. Heavy earthen pots, as many as seven or eight at a time, are balanced on the heads of maidens as they trudge to the beat of the "gangsa" or wind chimes displaying their stamina and strength as they go about their daily task of fetching water and balancing the banga.
Bendayan Origin: Benguet Province, Northern Luzon
Also popularly called Bendian, this circle dance of the Benguet of Mountain Province is restaged, keeping true to the dance's context and meaning. Long known as a dance to celebrate the arrival of successful headhunters, the Bendayan has taken a new face. It is part of every Benguet festivity with the circles slowly giving way to other formations and interpretations.
endayan
Lumagen / Tachok Tribe: Kalinga Origin: Luzon
When the Kalinga gather to celebrate a happy occasion like the birth of a first-born baby boy, a wedding, or a budong (peace pact), the Kalinga Festival Dance (Tachok) is performed. This is danced by the Kalinga maiden. The dance imitates birds flying in the air. Music is provided by gangsa, or gongs, which are usually in a group of six or more.
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anmanok
Manmanok Tribe: Bago
Three Bago Tribe roosters compete against each other for the attention of Lady Lien. They use blankets depicting colorful plumes to attract her.
Ragsaksakan Tribe: Kalinga
This dance portrays the walk of the industrious Kalingga women, carrying water pots on their heads and wearing the colorful hand-woven "blankets of life" around their necks. Their walk imitates the climb up the Rice Terraces in the Mountain Provinces of the Philippines.
agsaksakan
alisid
Salisid Tribe: Kalinga
The Salidsid is the Kalinga courtship dance, performed by a male and female (and thus is sometimes called the "cayoo" dance). The dance starts when each of the dancers are given a pice of cloth called ayob or allap. Usually the most important people in the village are the second to dance after the host has signified that the occasion is formally open. The background and meaning in this dance is evident. The male simulates a rooster trying to attract the attention of a hen while the female imitates the movements of a hen being circled by a rooster.
Salip Tribe: Kalinga
Tribes in the mountain provinces of Luzon preserve their identity, customs and lore. Their dances celebrate important events in life such as birth, wedding, victory in war and thanksgiving. A Kalinga wedding dance is an important celebration. The bridegroom offers the bride the protection and comfort of his blanket. He simulates the movements of a rooster at love play, aspiring to attract and seize his love. The bride's friends are ready to help prepare the bride by offering "bangas" (earthen pots) filled with fresh water from the mountain spring.
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alip
Turayen Tribe: Gaddang Origin: Cagayan Valley
Gaddang comes from the word ga, meaning "heat" and dang, meaning burned". The Gaddang live in the middle of Cagayan Valley and speak a language similar to Ilokano. Most of them converted to Christianity, and those who live alongside Christianized Ilokano groups have more or less adjusted to settled agriculture of mixed crops. Small and scattered groups in southeastern Kalinga, eastern Bontoc, and Isabela regions retain their indigenous religion and practice swidden agriculture (the cutting back and burning of existing vegetation to produce temporary farming plots) with supplementary hunting and fishing. In this dance, the Gaddang imitate birds attracted to tobacco trees.
Tarektek Tribe: Benguet
Two tareketek woodpeckers vie for the attention of three females. One Male woodpecker rhythmically bang on a brass gong to represent a good voice, while the other swish about a colorful blanket representing beautiful plumage.
arektek
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Uyaoy / Uyauy Tribe: Ifugao
The Ifugao people are said to be the "children of the earth." The term Ifugao is derived from the word ipugaowhich literally means "coming from the earth." The Spaniards, however, changed it to Ifugaw, a term presently used in referring not only to these people but also to their province. This Ifugao wedding festival dance is accompanied by gongs and is performed by the affluent to attain the second level of the wealthy class. Wealthy people (Kadangyan) who have performed this dance are entitled to the use of gongs at their death
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Cordillera's Musical Instruments
1. Gangsa is a single hand-held smooth-surfaced gong with a narrow rim. A set of gangsa, which is played one gong per musician, consists of gangsa tuned to different notes, depending on regional or local cultural preferences. The number of gangsa in a set varies with availability, and depends on the tradition of a particular ethnic group of the Luzon Cordillera: Kalinga, Ifugao, Bontoc, etc.Among the Kalinga people in the Cordillera region of Luzon Island, the gangsa is played in two ways. One way is called "toppaya" and the other is called "pattung." In "toppaya" style, the musicians play the surface of the gangsa with their hand while in a sitting position, with a single gangsa resting on the lap of each musician. In the "pattung" style, a gangsa is suspended from the musician's left hand and played with a padded stick held in the musician's right hand. In the "pattung" style of playing, the players are standing, or they keep in step with the dancers while bending forward slightly.
2. Kalaleng or Tongali (nose flute) Because the kalaleng is long and has a narrow internal diameter, it is possible to play different harmonics through overblowingeven with the rather weak airflow from one nostril. Thus, this nose flute can play notes in a range of two and a half octaves. Finger holes in the side of the bamboo tube change the operating length, giving various scales. Players plug the other nostril to increase the force of their breath through the flute.
3. Tongatong is a bamboo percussion instrument used by the people of Kalinga to communicate with spirits during house blessings. It is made of bamboo cut in various lengths. When you hit it against soft earth a certain drone reverberates though the instrument's open mouth. When an entire set of Tongatong is played in interloping rhythm and prolonged with the tribal chanting, it could put the audience and the dancers in a trance.
6. Solibao is hallow wooden Igorot drug topped with pig skin or lizard skin this is played by striking the drum head using the palm of the hand.
7. Bungkaka- bamboo buzzer
4. Diwdiw-as is 5 or more different size of slender bamboo that is tied together.
5. Saggeypo it is a bamboo pipe that is closed on one end by a node with the open end held against the lower lip of the player as he blows directly across the top. The pipe can be played individually by one person or in ensembles of three or more.
8. Kullitong- polychordal bamboo tube zither
9. Ulibaw- bamboo jaws harp
11. Pateteg- bamboo leg xylophone
10. Patangguk- bamboo quill-shaped
12. Paldong- bamboo lip-valley
Cordillera's Musical Instruments gangsa kalinga = gangsa are handmade by the Kalinga tribe of the Northern Philippines (in the Cordillera mountain range) they are used in traditional dances andd used to summon the gods for good fortune. baliing = nose flute tumpong = Philippine bamboo flute used by the Maguindanaon, half the size of the largest bamboo flute, the palendag. A lip-valley flute like the palendag, the tumpong makes a sound when players blow through a bamboo reed placed on top of the instrument and the air stream produced is passed over an airhole atop the instrument. This masculine instrument is usually played during family gatherings in the evening and is presently the most common flute played by the Maguindanaon. tongatong = A Tongatong is a bamboo percussion instrument used by the people of Kalinga to communicate with spirits during house blessings. It is made of bamboo cut in various lengths. 8
When you hit it against soft earth a certain drone reverberates though the instrument's open mouth. When an entire set of Tongatong is played in interloping rhythm and prolonged with the tribal chanting, it could put the audience and the dancers in a trance. diwdiw-as = is one of he Cordillera instrument.It is 5 or more different size of slender bamboo that is tied together. saggeypo = Stopped pipes found in northern Philippines are the saggeypo (Kalinga) and the sagayop (Bontok). The bamboo pipe is closed on one end by a node with the open end held against the lower lip of the player as he blows directly across the top. The pipe can be played individually by one person or in ensembles of three or more. bamboo zither = any stringed musical instrument whose strings are the same length as its soundboard. The European zither consists of a flat, shallow sound box across which some 30 or 40 gut or metal strings are stretched.
