Name That Tune

CEBU, Philippines - Do the songs you listen to magnify your Visayan/Cebuano culture? Try to identify what song type the items below refer to. Choose your answer from the choices in the box.

1. The ________serves as a representation of the varied hopes and values of Visayan life. It is a song-and-dance debate between a man and a woman done in the extemporaneous manner. Example: Boy says: Inday, bisan asa ikaw magtago/Bisan adto pa sa ilawom sa hungot/Tuntunan ka sa akong gugma/Moguwa ka sa alimuot. Girl answers: Ako, Manoy, dili kanimo/Kay tiguwang ka na kaayo/Dili ka na abtan og bulan/Segurado ka nang motikangkang.

2. The ___________________is a catch-all word for all folk songs from nursery rhymes to children's songs to drinking songs, fishing songs, planting songs, ballads, patriotic songs, story songs, and love songs. Plenty of these patriotic folk songs can still be heard in Biliran, an island off northwest tip of Leyte.

3. _______is a narrative sung in repetitive melody. Favorite subject or theme is the virtues of Catholicism and legendary folk heroes. Even the Mangyans of Mindoro are found still writing about it today on segments of green bamboo and singing it while on courtship. During the Spanish times, it was used as a tool for oral mass communication.

4. The _______refers to the Passion of the Christ put into verses and read during Lenten season with a chanting style.

5. The ____________________is a parlor game wherein the person, to whom the handkerchief falls, will give a verse. Example: Nakadungog ako'g balita/Balita gikan sa Sugbu/May nagaihaw og ba-o/Ang tambok pito ka barko.

6. ____________is actually a children's song for the teaching of another language. It is said to be a uniquely Visayan form which is sung in two languages, in immediate translation. Example: One day/Usa ka adlaw/I saw/Nakita ko/The bird was flying/Ang langgam naglupadlupad/I shot/Gipusil ko/I roast/Giasal ko/I taste/Gitilawan ko/Very sweet/Tam-is kaayo.

7. You know this very well! The _________is the Cebuano Christmas carol. The best example of which is "Kasadya ning Takna-a" composed in 1933 by Vicente "Noy Inting" Rubi with lyrics by Mariano Vestil.

8. __________is a traditional form of courtship music in which a man woos a woman by singing underneath her window at night. The main instrument is the guitar, although other string instruments like the ukulele and violin are also frequently used.

9. __________is Cebuano classical music. An example of this is "Sa Kabukiran", lyrics and music by Manuel "Maning" Velez.

10. The ________is considered "original rap performed by a man and a woman usually in courtship." It is composed of four lines (quatrain). It is like the balitaw, but balitaw is with a little dancing.

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