Name:_____________________ Grade and Section:_______________

I. Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Place a T on the line if you think a
statement is TRUE. Place an F on the line if you think the statement is FALSE.

_____1. Mindanao is one of the largest islands in the Philippines.

_____2. Mindanao is known as the land of promise because of its rich biodiversity and natural
resources.
_____3. Islamic music is characterized by a highly subtle organization of melody and rhythm,
in which the vocal component predominates over the instrumental.
_____4. Chanting is making melodic sounds with the voice only.
_____5. The indigenous Philippine folklore is characterized by sacred rituals and practices and
are made more eager and animated by the music that accompanies them.
_____6. Suling is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a
row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger,
suspended gongs and drums
_____7. Kulintang is considered as men’s Instrument.
_____8. Gandingan is a set of four large hanging gongs which is played as part of the
kulintang ensemble of Maguindanao.
_____9. Kulintang is a single-headed Philippine drum that looks like a goblet used by the
Maranaos.
_____10. Agung is the Maguindanao suling is the smallest bamboo flute of the Maguindanao
and the only one classified as a ring-flute.
II. Written Activity (10 points)

“ART ATTACT!”
Directions: If you were given a chance to make an ethnic instrument in Mindanao, what would be?
(5 points)

As a student, what is the importance of studying the Music of Mindanao? (5 points)

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 III. Assessment (20 points)

Directions: Identify the words being described in each statement by arranging the misspelled
words; write your answer on the space provided before the number.

___________________1. AKMANSA is the name of one of the tribes from the provinces of Davao
del Norte and Compostela Valley.

___________________2. BOTLI’ is the name of one of the tribes of South Cotabato. They perform
different songs from different occasions and sentiments, like weddings and fishing, and when they
are joyful or sad.

___________________3. NONABUS is the biggest group of Lumad of Zamboanga del Norte and
Zamboanga del Sur.

___________________4. DAMUL is a Visayan word for “Native” or “Indigenous”. It refers to the

non- Christian and non-Muslim ethnic groups of Mindanao.

___________________5. PAGDALEN is a lip-valley flute and one of the most common aerophones
of the Maguindanaons.

___________________6. INGBUK is a type of Philippine Jew harp from bamboo found among the
Maguindanao and other Muslim and non-Muslim tribes in the Philippines and Indonesia.
___________________7. BENDILBE is a single, narrow-rimmed Philippine gong used as the
timekeeper of the Maguindanao Kulintang ensemble

___________________8. NGUGA is one or two suspended gongs.

___________________9. NGAKUTLIN is an ensemble composed of a set of eight gongs of

graduated sizes arranged in a row.

___________________10. MISADMIN is a dance song and is also chanted as people walk before
the altar. The wedding feast is another celebration where music plays an important role.

___________________11. UGINGLA Is the most important type of vocal music. It recalls the
adventure of the main hero Agyu and his brother and sisters.
___________________12. RADANGEN is an epic song, which includes as wealth of knowledge
about the Maranao people living in the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao

___________________13. ANTINGCH is making melodic sounds with the voice only. There are
epics in Mindanao transferred from one generation to the next through their oral tradition, with the
use of chanting.

___________________14. BREMIT head voice/falsetto (light), chest/speaking voice (throaty),

guttural voice.
__________________15. RHTHMY fast, moderate, or slow in tempo
__________________16. LEMDOY narrow range moderate, wide range

___________________17. TUREXET monophony, homophony, polyphony, heterophony.

___________________18. HORMANY major and minor tonality, pentatonic scale, modal.
___________________19. RETEM regular and irregular meter.

___________________20. FROM syllabi and melismatic phrasing