Kalangan----music and culture

Hey guys!! I'm a new blogger and my major inspirations are music and culture.

As a proud tausug, I would just like to share our beautiful music and culture...

Kalangan is Tausug vocal music. It can be divided into narrative and lyric songs, and further into the lugu and the paggabang traditions. The luguh traditio-n denotes unaccompanied religious songs, while the paggabang tradition applies to "more mundane" songs that are accompanied by the gabbang and biyula.

Narrative songs tell a story and include all the sung kissa like the parang sabil. Lyric songs express ideas and feelings and consist of the langan batabata (children's songs), the baat (occupational songs), the baat caallaw and pangantin (funeral and bridal songs, respectively), the tarasul (sung poems), the sindil (sung verbal jousts), the liangkit (from langkit or "chained"), and the sangbay or song to accompany the dalling-dalling dance.
The langan batabata are more specifically lulla-bies.

This is an example of a tausug happy melody sung by farmers and the fishers after a hard day's work:

Manok-manok Iupad kaw
Sulat ini da kaw
Pagdatung mu sumha kaw
Siki lima siyum kaw.

Little bird fly away
Bring this letter
When you arrive make an obeisance
And kiss [her] feet and hands.

…

Saupama naghangka-bangka
In alun landu' dakula
Seesabroos nagkalalawa'
Hi rayang hadja
In ba laum dila'.

Supposing I'll go boating
The waves are very big
The Seesabroos was lost
My darling's name
was always on my tongue.

[source: http://litera1no4.tripod.com/tausug_frame.html]