
	Where results make sense

Topic: Kulintang

Related Topics

Religious music

Polyphonic

Music of the Philippines

Folk song

Tagonggo

Folk music

Pinoy rock

Music

Kapanirong

Gamelan

Violin

Zarzuela

Gong

Xylophone

Ukelele

In the News (Wed 11 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Kulintang Musical Instruments
		Ownership of the Kulintang is a measure of wealth, and endows prestige and a higher standard of measure to the family.
		KULINTANG (Maguindanao and Maranao) - (also kolintang (Maranao), kulintangan (Tausog)) 7 to 8 graduated gongs set on a sounding rack, usually tuned to the pentatonic scale, and is the instrument that creates the melody in the orchestra.
		And in the center of it all, is the kulintang master who creates the melodic lines, and sets the standards by which the other members of the group plays.
	members.aol.com /TaraCelest/kulintang_instruments.html (2865 words)

	Kulintang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kulintang is a term for various musical instruments and musical genres which are indigenous to the Southeast Asian islands presently known as Indonesia and the Philippines.
		Kulintang ensemble music of the Philippines also differs greatly with the ethnic group and region in which it is found.
		Maguindanao kulintang music can be further broken down into five different "schools" or styles of music, including the most ancient style of Maguindanaon kulintang music, which originated in the city of Dulawan (presently known as Datu Piang), known simply as "Dulawan style".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kulintang (247 words)

	[X] : Kulintang: The Music of Resistance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kulintang is the name of an eight-gong instrument as well as the ensemble of five instruments played, which sound like a xylophone-drum set.
		Kulintang is passed on verbally from generation to generation, and Kalanduyan, 56, carries on that tradition by teaching Kulintang music and dance at SF State.
		Kalanduyan was born and raised in Mindanao Island, in the Philippines.
	xpress.sfsu.edu /archives/arts/001276.html (1094 words)

	Kulintang - TheBestLinks.com - Musical instrument, Gamelan, Anklung, Gongs, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The kulintang is a Southeast Asian musical instrument which consists of small gongs which lie horizontally next to each other, and which produce sounds at different pitches when struck.
		Often music ensembles use various instruments besides the kulintang, such as the anklung, and there is dancing along with the music.
		The kulintang is often part of a gamelan.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Kulintang.html (113 words)

	Kulintang Music of the Philippines - Gregg Butensky
		In San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York City, regional folk dances, the rondalla string ensemble music, and music of the kulintang (eight tuned, knobbed gongs suspended in a wooden frame) have become mainstays of the cultural life and public symbols of Filipino American identity.
		The kulintang, thought to have been brought from China in the 3rd century AD, is looked to as the "deepest" of the performing arts traditions.
		Related to the Indonesian gamelan, the kulintang is today rooted exclusively in the Muslim cultures of the southern island region of Mindanao.
	www.madnomad.com /gregg/kulintang (173 words)

	Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kulintang is a set of eight small bossed gongs in graduated sizes, horizontally laid on a rack called antangan (from antang, "to arrange").
		Kulintang also refers to the ensemble in which this instrument is accompanied by four other instruments.
		The Instruments - brief definitions of the instruments involved in the kulintang ensemble.
	www.kulintang.com /kulintang.html (103 words)

	Philippine News Online: The talking gongs
		Master Kalanduyan mentioned that kulintang players will mimic squatters on the street, playing a tune, begging for “20 cents, 25 cents.” Obviously, for those with a knack for the music they would know it was a joke but others would never know what really was going on.
		Kulintang music also was their way of revealing their feelings without saying a word.
		With the help of kulintang music, interested parties were allowed to interact and express their feelings to one other which sometimes led up to some couples eloping.
	www.philippinenews.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=89b700ee67a30c2798a38e453feec6d3 (1256 words)

	Jeff Myers' "Concertino" -- Program Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ever since I had been first exposed to the Kulintang gong music of the southern Philippines, I had wanted to write a concertante piano piece that drew upon the energetic and soloistic style embodied in it.
		Kulintang music is terse, fast and loud--melodic shapes are formally structured in an arc, with a series of rising melodic cells followed by descending melodic cells, usually ending with a short coda.
		Most Kulintang pieces tend to be very homogeneous, with a solid rhythmic groove and a related melodic sequence on top of that.
	www.duke.edu /~cws5/myersnotes.html (335 words)

	ROYAL HARTIGAN-BLOOD DRUM SPIRIT
		Kulintang is the name given to both the indigenous gong and drum ensembles of the Southern Philippines and the ensemble's leading melodic instrument, a suspended set of eight or more kettle gongs played with mallets.
		The melody is played on the kulintang melodic gong chimes accompanied by a single small babandir kettle gong stating the timeline.
		The kulintang ensemble is a manifestation of precolonial indigenous Philippine culture, and is included here to give direct meaning to my work, as a symbol of Philippine resistance to external neo-colonial influences.
	www.royalhart.com /ensemble/linernotes.html (2284 words)

	Dance for Power Study Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He tapped out the hoofs of the reindeer, the wings of a thousand birds, the rhythm of the rice fields heavy with grain, the rhythm of the stars and the rhythm of his pounding heart.
		“Kulintang” refers to three things: 1) the name of the entire instrument ensemble 2) the type of music produced by the ensemble, and 3) the main melody instrument – a set of eight bronze gongs, graduated in size and in tuning that are suspended horizontally on a wooden stand.
		The kulintang art form has flourished for thousands of years in the regions of the Southern Philippines.
	www.danceforpower.org /likha.html (2910 words)

	Clarion Music - Product » Kulintang Set
		Among the different cultures that play kulintang music, there are different orchestrations; for example, the gandingan is more commonly used among the Maguindanao than with the Maranao people.
		Kulintang is the name of the entire instrument ensemble, and of the music produced by the ensemble.
		It is also of the main melody instrument in the ensemble, which is a set of eight bronze gongs, graduated in size and in tuning, suspended horizontally on a wooden stand called antangan (from antang, "to arrange").
	www.clarionmusic.com /index.php?action=item&id=313&prevaction=pricelist (170 words)

	Kulintang Classes @ Pusod
		The term "kulintang" refers to (1) the many types of traditional music ensembles of the Southern Philippines, (2) the many different musical instruments of those ensembles, in general, and (3) to the main melody instrument of the kulintang music ensemble.
		This is a four week course in which the students will learn how to play one or two Maranao kulintang ensemble pieces on the saronay, and as part of the kulintang ensemble.
		This is a four week course in which the students will learn how to play one or two Maguindanao kulintang ensemble pieces on the kulintang, and as part of the kulintang ensemble.
	www.pusod-us.org /kulintang.html (442 words)

	Kababayang Pilipino of British Columbia - Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kulintang (Maguindanao and Maranao) - (also kolintang (Maranao), kulintangan (Tausog)) 7 to 8 graduated gongs set on a sounding rack, usually tuned to the pentatonic scale, and is the instrument that creates the melody in the orchestra.
		Kulintang A Tamlang - a kulintang instrument, which differs only in that bamboo is used, instead of metal.
		Kulingtang A Kayo - a kulintang instrument, where wood is used, instead of metal.
	www.kababayangpilipino.org /music (356 words)

	Hobbies - Playing Philippine Instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the southern islands, the kulintang ensemble of gongs is very important.
		The kulintang, a set of eight bossed gongs in graduated sizes and pitches, is the primary instrument of the group and plays the main melodic part.
		A bamboo version called kulintang a tamlang is often played by those who cannot afford the gong instrument.
	lion.mnu.edu /~tbaldridge/Philippine.html (292 words)

	CWF - Danongan Kalanduyan
		While gongs are found throughout the Philippine tribal cultures, the kulintang, thought to have been brought from China to the Philippines in the Third Century AD, is looked to as the “deepest” of the islands’ performing arts traditions.
		Basically a melody instrument, the kulintang is played by a single performer as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble.
		At the age of seven, he began to study the other instruments—the kulintang, the dabakan goblet-shaped drum, the small babandir “timekeeper” gong, and the gandingan four-gong set—from his grandmother, father, uncles, and cousins.
	www.creativeworkfund.org /pages/bios/danongan_kalanduyan.html (1312 words)

	Tao Music: Maguindanao Kulintang
		As a performer and Kulintang spokesperson, she has toured Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Taiwan, and the United States, to represent the Philippines in music festivals and conferences on indigenous cultures.
		Kulintang music as presented in this recording is based on its traditional practice by Maguindanaoans of Maguindanao province, Southern Mindanao, Philippines.
		The Kulintang is a set of eight knobbed gongs in graduated sizes, layed-out horizontally on a wooden frame.
	www.skyinet.net /~taomusic/taomusic/tao_maguindanao.html (352 words)

	BagongPinay - Pinay Ngayon (Filipina Today) Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I have expressed this cultural heritage through the traditional music and dances that I've learned from the master artists, As a dancer of Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble, I share a rich tapestry of expressions from the earliest collective memories of the people that belong in that culture.
		Danongan Kalanduyan and is a seasoned veteran having performed with the Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble in its 1995-96 national tour.
		She is quoted to say: Kulintang music and its dance movement speak to me through a language of poetry.
	newfilipina.com /members/pngayon/99.11/PN-kulintangV1.html (854 words)

	Music Fellowship - 2000/2001 Fellows
		Eleanor Academia is a master of Kulintang, the ancient gong and drum music of the Southern Philippines.
		She was the first "outsider" and American to be allowed in the legendary village of Kulintang masters in the ancient city of Dulawan in Minadanao, Philippines.
		A direct mulit (lineage holder) of recognized Philippine Kulintang master artists, Academia is the founder and director of the World Kulintang Institute and Research Studies Center in Reseda, California.
	www.durfee.org /programs/music/fellows2000.html (572 words)

	kulintang,drum
		THIS IS A PHOTO OF SOME OF THE PHILIPPINE DANCE GROUP ARTICLES THAT WE HAVE FOR SALE KULINTANG, DRUM, BRASS GONGS.
		8 kulintang set A 8 kulintang set B kulintang set c
		KULINTANG SMALL - $180.00 KULINTANG LARGE - $280.00
	www.reflectionsofasia.com /kulintang,gong,drum.htm (227 words)

	Gamelan in South-East Asia
		Among the multitude and the variety of music in South-East Asia, it is convenient to distinguish three large musical areas in the region.
		That of piphat, of kulintang and of gamelan, three native music.
		Kulintang and gamelan have, moreover, common points that are specific to them.
	alek.zipzap.ch /gamelan/seas_eng.htm (195 words)

	Kulintang - Kalanduyan - Buchholdt
		Here are a dozen or so kulintang ensembles in the United States associated with university ethnomusicology programs or Filipino cultural organizations, including several in California where Filipinos are the largest Asian population.
		The beginning of the proliferation of the kulintang ensembles can be traced to 1966, when ethnomusicologist, Dr. Robert Garfias invited to the University of Washington Usopay Hamdag Cadar from Maranao and, in 1976, Danongan Sibay Kalanduyan from Maguindanao.
		Danongan was born and raised in Maguindanao and he naturally absorbed kulintang music from the cultural environment.
	www.actaonline.org /grants_and_programs/apprenticeships/1999/kalanduyan.htm (272 words)

	Resources- Culture, Music, and History in the Philippines
		Kulintang: Probably the best known traditional musical instrument in the Philippine Islands is the kulintang or kulintangan, in most cases eight gongs of graduated sizes which are placed in a row on a wooden frame and beaten with two wooden sticks on their bosses.
		The kulintang is usually played as the main and only melody instrument in a larger ensemble which consists of bossed gongs of different sizes and a drum.
		Among the Magindanaon of Mindanao, the ensemble comprises one kulintang set of eight pieces, two big agung with wide rims, a set of four big gongs with shallow rims (gandingan), a small high-pitched gong (babandil) and a big standing drum (dabakan) which is beaten with two thin sticks.
	www.anthonians.org /res-cult.html (8194 words)

	KQED \| Public TV: Spark: Danongan Kalanduyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kalanduyan is a master of the kulintang, a set of eight small bossed gongs in graduated sizes, arranged horizontally on a rack called an antangan.
		The kulintang is the central instrument in Kulintang music, which features a number of different percussion instruments: the Babendil, a small hand-held gong; the Dabakan, a single-headed kettle-shaped wooden drum; the Agung, a large wide-rimmed vertical gong; and the Gandingan, a set of four large graduated vertical gongs.
		Kulintang music finds its roots almost entirely in a small Muslim region of the Southern Philippines, but pre-existed both the Muslim and Hispanic influence.
	www.kqed.org /spark/artists-orgs/dannykalan.jsp (351 words)

	Jazz Concert Review - Routing Out Roots@ jazzreview.com
		The major component of Kulintang is a group of eight distinctly pitched gongs, characteristically lined up in a horizontal row within a box.
		the entire Kulintang ensemble would include in addition an array of vertically hanging gongs, handheld gongs and wooden drums.) The eight bronze gongs form a solid unit of sound and are one instrument rather than eight.
		It is also notable that Ibarra chose an appropriate ensemble of instruments because she played both the traditional and the contemporary with a similar group of attacks.
	www.jazzreview.com /article/review-4117.html (757 words)

	Notations
		Danongan Kalanduyan is a master of all aspects of the Maguindanao tribal style of kulintang music and has been a central artistic figure in virtually all major Filipino-American communities for nearly two decades.
		At the age of seven, he began to study the other instruments--the kulintang the dabakan goblet-shaped drum, the small babandir "timekeeper" gong, and the gandingan four-gong set--from his grandmother, father, uncles, and cousins.
		Word of his presence spread among Filipino communities, and he was soon very much in demand as a performer and as a guro, or "teacher." He has taught and performed with virtually all of the American kulintang ensembles.
	www.beatsrhymesnlife.com /2003/02/master-danongan-danny-kalanduyan.htm (570 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)