Oceanian Musical Instruments - Australian Musical Instruments, Fijian Musical Instruments, Guamanian Musical Instruments (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 159. Not illustrated. Chapters: Australian Musical Instruments, Fijian Musical Instruments, Guamanian Musical Instruments, Hawaiian Musical Instruments, Melanesian Musical Instruments, M ori Musical Instruments, Philippine Musical Instruments, Polynesian Musical Instruments, Didgeridoo, Slide Guitar, Ukulele, Kulintang, Agung, Gandingan, Dabakan, Bullroarer, Slack-Key Guitar, Kutiyapi, Suling, Babendil, Las Pinas Bamboo Organ, Kendang, Gambang, Nose Flute, Humanfolk, Slit Drum, Ipu, Dhantal, Palendag, Kagul, Kubing, Tahitian Ukulele, Gungsa, Luntang, Clapstick, List of Philippine Musical Instruments, Kulintang a Kayo, Kulintang a Tiniok, Pate, Bandurria, Gandingan a Kayo, Kalaleng, Agung a Tamlang, Tumpong, Ka'eke'eke, Lali, Pahu, Footed Drum, Belembaotuyan, P t tara. Excerpt: Kulintang 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. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Eastern Malay Archipelago the Southern Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor, although this article has a focus on the Philippine Kulintang traditions of the Maranao and Maguindanao peoples in particular. Kulintang evolved from a simple native signaling tradition, and developed into its present form with the incorporation of knobbed gongs from Sunda. Its importance stems from its association with the indigenous cultures that inhabited these islands prior to the influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or the West, making Kulintang the most developed tradition of Southeast Asian archaic gong-chime ensembles. Technically, kulintang is the Maguindanao, Ternate and Timor term for the idi...