Ethnic Music

Presented by:
Mr. Clark Gravoso
 Philippine Ethnic Music
• Filipinos already had a rich and unique
musical tradition long before westerners
set foot on our native land. Music was
present in every stage of our ancestors’
lives — from birth to death, in blissful or
tragic times.
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• Ethnic music continues to thrive in the

Philippines, particularly among indigenous
people who comprise 10 percent of the
country’s population and represented by
more than 100 language groups from the
mountains of northern Luzon as well as
from Mindanao, Sulu, Palawan, and
Mindoro in southern and western
Philippines.
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• Such instruments as flat gongs, bamboo
buzzers, clappers, quill-shaped percussion
tubes, and brass Jew’s harps are often
seen in the north. Meanwhile, bossed
gongs, ring flutes, log drums, xylophones,
single-stringed violins, and suspended
beams are commonly used in the south.
These musical instruments are used in
various rituals, festivities, and other
activities. For instance, the paldong or
kaldong, the lip-valley flute of the Kalinga,
is a favorite instrument for serenading.
 Ethnic Musical Instruments
• A.Ethnic String Instruments
1.Kudyapi
2. Buktot
3. Pas-ing-pas
4. Bamboo Violin

• B. Ethnic Wind Instruments

1. Diwdiw-as
2. Pasiyok
3. Tulali
4. Bansik

• C. Ethnic Percussion
1. Dabakan
2. Bunkaka or Bilbil
3. Sulibao
4. Kulintang
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• Vocal forms, performed either

responsorially (viz., leader-chorus) or solo,
are also used for different purposes. They
follow the sequence of natural events and
human activities, from the personal to
social, from the economic to the political,
from the spiritual to the cosmic.
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• The Ibaloy ba-diw, an example of
responsorial singing, is used in
ceremonies for the dead called du-udyeng
or ta-tamiya

• In weddings, epic songs, which may be

sung for one or more nights, may also be
chanted to entertain guests or villagers
themselves. Meanwhile songs, performed
by a soloist may be accompanied by
instruments and/or dancing.
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• Among indigenous Filipinos, one important
function of music is to celebrate or
commemorate important events in the
human life cycle. Examples are the
Kalinga dopdopit, which is sung the first
time a child is bathed outside the family’s
house; and the dinnayan, dawak, and
paliwat, also of the Kalinga, which are
sung during a ritual celebrating the rite of
passage from boyhood to manhood.
Thank you