DEVELOPMENT
Learning Task 1: Read the statements carefully. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE, if it is not.
1. Music of Mindanao does not have symbolic meanings to the community.
2. Western musical education will always fit with the music from Mindanao.
3. Cultural communities that live near each other will never have similar musical characteristics
4. Vocal music of Mindanao follows a strict notation.
5. Mindanao music is diverse and even contrasting.
6. Epic songs only last for an hour.
7. Music is created for entertainment purposes.
8. Vocal music of Mindanao uses melisma, long phrases, narrow range, fluid singing, and tremolo.
9. People create melodic chants and indigenous instruments based on the materials available in their locality.
10. When we study music, we also study culture.
11. The Lumads are the only sources of music in Mindanao.
12. Mindanao hosts more varied indigenous communities interacting with Islamized, settler, and cosmopolitan
cultures than any region in the country.
13. Vocal repertoire is performed either in responsorial or solo manner,
14. Music in Mindanao can never be performed together with dances.
15. Cultural communities that live near each other may influence the music of one another.
