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    The document discusses the music of the Cordillera people in the Philippines. It describes several traditional musical instruments made from bamboo that are common in Cordillera music, including flutes, panpipes, zithers, and gongs. It also notes that Cordillera music features pentatonic melodies sung in unison and is participatory in nature. The music serves important social and cultural functions, accompanying rituals and celebrations of life events from birth to death.

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    The document discusses the music of the Cordillera people in the Philippines. It describes several traditional musical instruments made from bamboo that are common in Cordillera music, including flutes, panpipes, zithers, and gongs. It also notes that Cordillera music features pentatonic melodies sung in unison and is participatory in nature. The music serves important social and cultural functions, accompanying rituals and celebrations of life events from birth to death.

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    CORDILLERA

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    CORDILLERA – HIGHLANDS MUSIC 3.

    Saggeypo – bamboo panpipes


    The Cordillera
    Inhabitants of the Cordillera used to settle along the
    coast until they decided to live up in the mountain to elude
    Spanish rule. For a living, they engaged in agriculture,
    woodcarving, basket and cloth weaving. The people had faith 4. Kullitong – a polychordal bamboo tube zither.
    in the anitos and when asking favors they offered animals
    during rituals. They also practiced offering rituals to give
    thanks and adoration. 5. Gangsa – flat gong of the cordillera people. This
    instrument is played with bare hands. They perform
    MUSIC OF THE CORDILLERA with a group to form an ensemble. Topayya ensemble
    Life of the Cordillera people is always related to of the Kalingas is formed of six gongs in different
    music. They boast of rich, varied songs, and music from their sizes.
    indigenous authentic instruments. They welcome everyone on
    the community to participate in their dancing, singing, and
    playing musical instruments.

    Cordillera music is commonly sung in unison of


    pentatonic melodies since it is communal and participatory.
    Along with their culture, these are handed down to the
    succeeding generations through oral traditions. ** You can easily identify Cordillera music because of its
    typical two sound characteristics produced by the
    FUNCTIONS OF MUSIC materials used for the instruments.
    Music serves as a means of communicating and
    expressing their message and feelings: Instruments made of bamboos such as:
     Birth, coming of age, work, marriage and death  Flutes,
     Healing rituals  Percussion instruments, and
     Invocation of the Gods  Instruments made of metals like the gongs
     Peace pacts
     Rites of passage *** On of the famous musical instruments made of bamboo in
     Wedding and festivities the Philippines in the Las Piňas Bamboo Organ.

    VOCAL FORM
    The Ifugao tribal people chanted the “Hudhud” as
    one of their earliest traditions. They chant this when a known MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CLASSIFICATION
    member of the village dies. Another instance is during harvest
    season. “Hudhud” is one of the earliest written epics in the Hornbostel and Sachs Classification is a system of classifying
    Philippines. musical instruments devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
    and Curl Sachs
    TRADITIONAL KALINGA INSTRUMENTS
    1. AEROPHONES – This musical instrument itself
    1. Tongatong – a bamboo tube made to sound by does not vibrate. There are no vibrating strings or
    stamping. membranes. Vibrating air is responsible for
    production of sound.
    2. CHODRDOPHONES – “String instruments”,
    including the keyboard instruments, such as pianos
    and harpsichords.
    3. IDIOPHONES – This group includes all percussion
    2. Bungkaka or Bilbil – a bamboo instrument with a instruments except drums and some other
    forked end opening. It instruments.
    creates a buzzer like 4. MEMBRANOPHONES – Sound is produced by the
    sound when you strike it vibration of a tightly stretched membrane, including
    in your palm that is why all drums.
    it is also called buzzer.

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