Question

Describing our own Filipino instruments played especially in the Cordillera region
and Southernmost region in Mindanao serve as our own identity of enriching our
culture and traditions.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The culture of the Philippines is a combination of cultures of the East and West.Filipino identity was created primarily as a result of pre-colonial cultures, colonial influences and foreign traders intermixing and gradually evolving together. In pre-colonial times, the Philippines was a divided set of nations, islands and tribes being ruled by their own kings, chieftains, lakans, rajahs, datus and sultans. Every nation has its own identity and some are even part of a larger empire outside of what is now the Philippines. Manila, for example, was once part of the Islamic Sultanate of Brunei, and the Sulu Archipelago was also part of the Hindu Majapahit. The advent of colonial rule in the islands marked the beginning of the Philippines as an entity, a collection of Southeast Asian countries united under Spanish Empire.

Chinese influence has been felt throughout Southeast Asia through trade, specifically by the Ming dynasty and other earlier dynasties from as early as the 9th century. The blending of indigenous, colonial and external influence is very evident in the historic arts and traditions of the country.

The Philippine archipelago was first settled by Negritos; today, although few in numbers, they preserve a very traditional way of life and culture. After them, the Austronesians arrived on the archipelago. The Austronesian culture is strongly evident in the ethnicities, languages, cuisine, music, dance and almost every aspect of the culture. These Austronesians engaged in trading with other Austronesians, particularly in the neighbouring nations in Maritime Southeast Asia. They also traded with the Mainland Southeast Asia, as well as Japan, China, the Indian subcontinent and Arabia. As a result, some of these cultures marked their influences on Filipino culture. This gradually evolved with indigenous belief systems and developed into Anitism, which became the dominant religion for more than a millennium.

Answer 2

Explanation:

There are two main categories of gong music in the Philippines:

• bossed gongs, which are played by Muslim and animist tribes in the south of the country, and,
• flat gongs, also called as gangsà and performed by groups in the Cordillera region.
• Flat gongs, bamboo cymbals, flaps, feather-shaped percussion pipes, and brass Jewish harps are all common musical instruments in the Philippines.
• In addition to all of these, the south also uses hanging stringers, boss gongs, ring flutes, log drums, xylophones, and single-string violins.
• Along with a variety of percussion instruments, the B'laan (Bilaan) of Davao del Sur also play chordophones, aerophones, bamboo tubes with strings, and zithers (flutes and reeds).
• They also employ the tangungo, a set of eight metal gongs that are suspended from a harness.

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