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HUM 102
Philippine Popular Culture
Name: Dominique Marie S. Origenes Course/ Program: BPED 1
Class Schedule: HUM 102 TTH 9:00-10:30 am Date: March 1, 2022
Assignment 1
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Philippine Arts,
Music, and Literature
in the Pre-Colonial Era
The Pre-Colonial Period is when our
indigenous ancestors inhabited the
Philippines and the time before the
coming of our first colonizers.
Instruments
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Long before the coming of the Spaniards, the pre-colonial people of
the adventure
the Philippines already possessed a varied and vibrant musical
culture. The country’s indigenous cultures through the existence of
ethnic musical instruments such as Pipes, Flutes, Zithers, Drums,
Kudyapi, Kulintang, and Agong.
Dance
The Mandayas’kinabua, the
banog-banog of the Higaonon
and of the B’laan communities,
and the man-manok of the
Bagobos of Mindanao
Imitate the movements of
predatory birds.
Tinikling
Evocative of the movements of the crane,
balancing itself on stilt-like legs or flitting away
from the clutches of bamboo traps.
Carving
Pre-colonials Filipinos have
been making images before
colonization. This is
exemplified by the
country’s rich tradition in
carving.