Download Gong musical instrument in Asia southeast asia the south part of the world third world country and more Lecture notes Art in PDF only on Docsity! Musical Instrument: Kulintang By: Arinos, Bryant Caesar De Guzman, Karl Judah Vergara, Gabriel Benniedict Definition • Kulintang is a modern term for an instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. • The kulintang instrument consists of a row of small brass or bronze gongs, typically 8 gongs, aligned together in a wooden rack • The gongs weigh roughly from 2-3 pounds and have dimensions from 6–10 inches for their diameters and 3– 5 inches for their height. • Usually played in an ensemble of five to six instruments. Origin • two routes have been proposed as the route by which the kulintang arrived in Mindanao. • One is from Sunda, through Banjermasin, Brunei and the Sulu Archipelago, a route where the word “kulintangan” is commonly used for the horizontal row of gongs. • The other is from Sunda, through Timor, Sulawesi, Moluccas and Mindanao where the word “kolintang” or “kulintang” is commonly used. Sociofact Kulintang music serves as: • social entertainment for a host of different occasions • used during large feasts, at festive and harvest gatherings • for entertainment of visiting friends and relatives, and at parades • accompanies ceremonies marking significant life events, such as weddings and annual pilgrimages returning to and from Mecca. Kulintang music also plays a significant role at state functions: • it is used during official celebrations, • the entertainment of foreign dignitaries, • court ceremonies of either the sultanate or village chieftains, • enthronements and coronations of new leaders, • and the transferal of a sultanate from one family to another. Mentifact Kulintang for communication: • long distance messages from one village or longhouse to another. • Apad-mimic the normal speaking tones of the Maguindanao language, creating a specific message or, through the use of double entendre. • Anun-music without a message, is used to express sentiments and feelings, and has come more and more into use due to its compatibility with the musical elaborations and idiosyncratic styles of the times. Mentifact “There is only one thing that can supersede and command the human mind… The sound of kulintang.” - Anonymous “Sino ang nanay ng mga kulintang?” – Kulintang ina “Ang kulintang ay parang tao, hindi maububuo nang walang kasama” – Gabriel Vergara, 2019 Kulintang ka ba?... TING TING TING TING- Bryant Arinos, 2019 “KulinTANG is a naughty juice”- Judah De Guzman, 2019 Mentifact • “Kumukulin-kulintang, bumubusi-busilak Ganyan ang indak ng mga gongbilya”-Joey Albert • “Mamang kulintangero, tayo’y sumayaw Kulintang mong hawak, muling ikaway”-Celeste Legazpi • “Always tama and timpla.”-pop cola
