Cordillera Administrative Region

Important Activities Where Music isUtilized

1. Peace pacts
2. Healing rituals
3. Invocation of the gods
4. Rites of passage
5. Weddings and festivals
6. Other life cycle events such as birth, coming of
age, work, marriage and death

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 Vocal Music
Life Cycle Music
Birth to Childhood
• Owiwi- lullabye of Kalinga that relate a child’s life
• Dagdagay- songof Kalinga that foretells the baby’s
future.
• Oppiya- kalinga song, sung while cradling
Love, Courtship and Marriage
• Chag-ay- an expression of secret love ofBontoc.
• Oggayan- greeting and advice to newly wedsof
Kalinga.
Death Rite Music
• Didiyaw- song to a dead child of Bontoc
• Sangsangit- a dirge of Isneg.

Work or Occupational Song

• Sowe-ey- Rice pounding song ofBontoc.
• Dakuyon- kalinga song for hunting bats.
• Dinaweg- Ilongot song for catchingwild boar.
• Owayat- song for gathering firewood of Ilongot.
• Chey-assa- Bontoc rice pounding song sung in a
groups.
Ceremonial Music
• Kapya- song of Bontoc for curingceremonies.
• Angba- song of Bontoc for curingceremonies.
• Dawak- song of Ilongot for curing ceremonies.

Entertainment Song
• Hudhud- epic song of Ifugao, aleader chorus style.
• Alim- leader chorus style of music of Ifugaowhere
to groups of singers reply to 2 make leaders.
• Dang Dang-ay- Kalinga entertainment song
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
1. Gangsa is played in two ways. One way is
called "toppaya" and the other is called
"palook.“

In "toppaya" style, the musicians play the

surface of the gangsa with their handwhile in a
sitting position, with a single gangsa resting on
the lapof each musician.
In the "palook" style, a gangsa is
suspended from the musician's lefthand
and played with a padded stick held in
the musician's right hand.
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 overblowing—even with the
rather weak airflow from one nostril.
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.
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.
7. Bungkaka- bamboo buzzer
of Kalinga.
9. Ulibaw- bamboo Jew’s harp
of Kalinga.
( Called as Kubing among the among the
Maguindanaon and other Muslim and non-
Muslim tribes.)
11. Pateteg-
bamboo leg
xylophone