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MUSIC
Quarter 2 – Module 2
Music of the Cordillera, Mindoro,
Palawan and the Visayas:
Music of Mindoro

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MUSIC – GRADE 7
Quarter 2 – Module 2: MUSIC OF MINDORO: Vocal and Instrumental Music

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MUSIC
Quarter 2 – Module 2
MUSIC OF MINDORO:
Vocal and Instrumental Music

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Lesson
Music of Mindoro:
2 Vocal and Instrumental music

In the last module, you learned about the characteristic of vocal and
instrumental music of Cordillera. Similar to Cordillera Music, the music of Mindoro
is categorized into vocal and instrumental music with different characteristics
based on how it is sung and the kind of musical materials. Music of Mindoro is
used to express their feelings through their music.

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Introductory Message
Introductory Message
A module is a type of learning resource that is essentially self-contained,
self- instructional package with learning paced by the student according to his or
her individual needs and ability (Ali, et.al,2010). It requires the learners to interact
actively with the instructional materials rather than simply allowing them to read
the materials passively (Dick and Carrey, 1990).

For the facilitator:

This module adheres to the learning competencies of the K-12

Curriculum. This module helps the learners understand the vocal and
instrumental music of Mindoro. This module is a useful learning material that
provides the learning objectives, pretest, lesson proper, enrichment activities,
generalization, application, assessment and additional activities.

For the learner:

This module is created to give meaningful learning of the Music of

Mindoro through clear and comprehensive discussions. Through the lesson, you
will learn the music of the Mangyans, an ethnolinguistic-group of several tribes. It
is a discovery of how the Mangyans express their feelings towards each other and
the environment, their history, and their supernatural beliefs through voice and
musical instruments. A group performance inspired by examples of music of the
Mangyans will culminate the educational experience.

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 What I Need to Know
This module was designed to help you understand the Music of Mindoro.
This module provides discussions and activities that will help you learn and
discover how the music of Mindoro is used for communication with the spirits in
rituals and worships, weddings, works, courtships, festive occasions, and lullabies,
and how the musical instruments of Mindoro are used during festivals, rituals,
courtship and daily activities of the Mangyan.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

 describes the musical characteristics of representative selections of

Cordillera, Mindoro, Palawan and of the Visayas after listening;
 identifies the musical instrument and other sound sources from Cordillera,
Mindoro, Palawan and of the Visayas;
 discover ways of producing sounds on a variety of sources similar to
instrument being studied;
 improvise simple rhythmic/melodic accompaniment to selected music from
the Cordillera, Mindoro, Palawan and of the Visayas;
 perform music from Cordillera, Mindoro, Palawan and of the Visayas with
accompaniment;

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 What I Know

Hello Learners. The music of Mindoro is categorized into vocal and

instrumental music. Do you know about their music?

Direction: Write what you currently know about the vocal and instrumental music
of Mindoro.

Music of Mindoro

I – Vocal music
1. MARAYAW

2. PAMUYBUYEN

3. AMBAHAN

II-Instrumental music
1.KUDYAPI

2.GITGIT (lute)

3.KALUTANG

What’s New
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 You have just finished answering the previous activity. Let’s know more
about the music of Mindoro, you may follow the links.

ACTIVITY 1

Look at the following images below.

A- Have you encountered a type of poetry from Mindoro? Below is an example of

Ambahan from the Mangyan Heritage Center. Are you familiar with these symbols?
If not, look at the English and Filipino translations. Read the poem. What do you
think is the message of the poem? Write your answer inside the box.

PICTURE MESSAGE

http://www.mangyan.org/content/ambahan

B. Describe the musical characteristic of each musical instrument and how it

produces sound.

PICTURE Description

Kudyapi
https://www.google.com/search?
rlz=1C1RLNS_enPH850PH850&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=e4o6XcTwIcuSr7wPiqOIiAw&q
=kudyapi&oq=kudyapi&gs_l=img.3..35i39j0l9.563431.564612..565235...0.0..0.44
0.1553.0j3j1j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i67.-
zWIUQ1lIno&ved=0ahUKEwiEms-
c6NHjAhVLyYsBHYoRAsEQ4dUDCAY&uact=5#imgrc=1pn1mDiX6qXwMM:

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 Gitgit (Lute)
www.ncca.gov.ph

Kalutang
https://www.google.com/search?
rlz=1C1RLNS_enPH850PH850&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=uIw6Xdn0GYaroA
T6142IBA&q=kalutang&oq=kalutang&gs_l=img.3..35i39j0l3j0i67j0l5.6
71622.675160..675426...3.0..1.1165.4810.0j1j0j1j4j1j1j1......0....1..gw
s-wiz-img.......0i24.nD6cS-
jP29k&ved=0ahUKEwjZsOSt6tHjAhWGFYgKHfprA0EQ4dUDCAY&uact
=5#imgrc=zt9zdm7iEt7AlM:

What is It

Now that you have answered the first activity, you are going to learn more
about the music of Mindoro.

MUSIC OF MINDORO

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 Similar to Cordillera Music, the music of Mindoro is used for communication
with the spirits in rituals and worships, weddings, works, courtships, festive
occasions, and lullabies.

A. Vocal Music
1. Marayaw – song used to communicate with spirits in rituals for healing the sick
and protecting the community.
2. Pamuybuyen – legend
3. Ambahan – composed of a seven-syllable line ending in rhyme
- often used in parenting in courtship, and by visitors to ask for
food.
- text is commonly written on bamboo
- often chanted with accompanying instruments

B. . Instrumental Music

The musical instruments of Mindoro are used during festivals, rituals,

courtships and daily activities of the Mangyan

1. Kudyapi – is a lute with long neck, and has two strings that run from the
neck to the base of a resonating chamber.

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 2. Gitgit (Lute)- an instrument with 3 to 4 strings with a wooden body and
human hair for the bow.

3. Kalutang – a pair of equal-sized wood struck together.

What’s More

Are you familiar with the Ambahan? Can you do the chanting? When we say

chant, it is a word or group of words that is repeated over and over again .

ACTIVITY 2

The Ambahan is a lyrical chant song of the pure Mangyans. It is composed of

seven syllables in one line that rhyme. The number of lines found in several

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Ambahan ranges from three to 134. There is no specific tone style or instrument
used as accompaniment.

The aim of Ambahan is to show the uniqueness of chanting. This

depends in the way the music is delivered or presented. If ever a Mangyan likes an
Ambahan, it is rewritten in a bamboo tube called luka to remember the song every
now and then.

 What
do you think is the function of the poem in the lives of the Mangyan ?
_________________________________________________________________________
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ACTIVITY 3

 Chant the Ambahan script below.

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Activity 4

Answer the following questions:

a. What are the uses of the music of Mindoro? In what specific occasions is it used?
__________________________________________________________________________________
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__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

b. What are the characteristic of their musical instruments?

__________________________________________________________________________________
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c. Do you like the music of Mindoro? Why or why not?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

What I Have Learned

How do you feel while doing the activity? Do you like the music of Mindoro?
What a wonderful experience you had, it’s time to sum up what you have learned
about:

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a. Vocal Music __________________________________________________________________

b. Instrumental Music__________________________________________________________

What I Can Do

You have already learned Music of Mindoro: vocal music- Marayaw,

Pamuybuyen, Ambahan and instrumental music – Kudyapi, Gitgit and Kalutang. In
what way are you going to encourage the people in your community or
neighborhood to listen to these kinds of music? What do you think their feelings
and effect to them?

Assessment

Choose your answer from the following options inside the box

Pamuybuyen Kalutang

Marayaw Gitgit

Ambahan Kudyapi

___________1. Vocal music of Mindoro that tells about the legend.

___________2. Composed of a seven-syllable line ending in rhymes, texts are

commonly written in bamboo.

___________3. A pair of equal sized wood struck together.

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___________4. A lute with long neck, and has two strings that run from the neck to
the base of the resonating chamber.

___________5. An instrument with 3 to 4 strings with a wooden human hair for the
bow.

Additional Activities

Try to create a simple rhythmic pattern using improvised instrument similar

to Kalutang.

Rubrics
CATEGORY 4 POINTS 3 POINTS 2 POINTS 1 POINT

The beat is The beat is The beat is The beat is

secure and the secure and the somewhat usually erratic
RHYTHM
rhythms are rhythms are erratic. Some and rhythms
accurate for mostly rhythms are are seldom
the style of accurate. accurate. accurate
music. There are a Frequent or detracting
few duration repeated significantly
errors, bit duration from the
these do not errors. overall
detract from performance.
overall
performance.

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Answer Key

Assessment

1. Pamuybuyen
2. Ambahan
3. Kalutang
4. Gitgit
5. Kudyapi

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References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2uTNhHpS3g

www.mangyan.org

http://www.mangyan.org/content/ambahan-marriage

https://www.google.com.ph/search?
newwindow=1&biw=1024&bih=499&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=kudyapi+picture

www.ncca.gov.ph

https://museomusiko.wordpress.com/idiophones/percussion-barks/kalutang/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwYOEUrWAI

https://www.google.com/search?
rlz=1C1RLNS_enPH850PH850&tbm=isch&q=map+of+mindoro&chips=q:map+of+mi
ndoro,g_1:mindoro+province:76m-OZedYoU%3D&usg=AI4_-kQy-
JMIw9TQTEehIYTEVBqzk3HRTA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhxa7Z4tHjAhVvw4sBHRM
VCXMQ4lYILSgB&biw=1034&bih=660&dpr=1#imgrc=o2dFYARi7toNvM:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nccaofficial/18256568308

https://www.google.com/search?
rlz=1C1RLNS_enPH850PH850&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=e4o6XcTwIcuSr7wPiqOIiAw&q=kudyapi&oq=kudy
api&gs_l=img.3..35i39j0l9.563431.564612..565235...0.0..0.440.1553.0j3j1j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz-
img.......0i67.-zWIUQ1lIno&ved=0ahUKEwiEms-
c6NHjAhVLyYsBHYoRAsEQ4dUDCAY&uact=5#imgrc=1pn1mDiX6qXwMM:

https://www.google.com/search?
rlz=1C1RLNS_enPH850PH850&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=uIw6Xdn0GYaroAT6142IBA&q
=kalutang&oq=kalutang&gs_l=img.3..35i39j0l3j0i67j0l5.671622.675160..675426...
3.0..1.1165.4810.0j1j0j1j4j1j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i24.nD6cS-
jP29k&ved=0ahUKEwjZsOSt6tHjAhWGFYgKHfprA0EQ4dUDCAY&uact=5#imgrc=zt
9zdm7iEt7AlM:

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