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Contemporary Art:
-art produced at the present period in time.
Contemporary art includes, and develops from, Postmodern art, which is itself a
successor to Modern art.
In vernacular English, modern and contemporary are synonyms, resulting in some
conflation of the terms modern art and contemporary art by non-specialists.
Contemporary art forms are the following:
1. Choreography
2. Musical instrument
3. Literary and music composition
4. Visual design
5. Theatrical performance
Contemporary dance:
-is a popular form of dance which developed during the middle portion of the
twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominating
performance genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world,
-with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and western Europe. Although
originally informed by and borrowing from classical, modern, and jazz styles, it has
since come to incorporate elements from many styles of dance.
-but due to its popularity amongst trained dancers and some overlap in movement
type, it is often perceived as being closely related to modern dance, ballet and other
classical concert dance styles.
The flat gong commonly known as gangsaand played by the groups in the Cordillera
region of the bossed gongs played among the Islam and animist groups in the Southern
Philippines.
2. Kalaleng or Tongali(nose flute) Because the kalaleng is long and has a narrow
internal diameter, it is possible to play different harmonics through overblowingeven with
the rather weak airflow from one nostril.
Kalinga to communicate with spirits during house blessings. It is made of bamboo cut in
various lengths. When you hit it against soft earth a certain drone reverberates though
the instruments open mouth. When an entire set of Tongatong is played in interloping
rhythm and prolonged with the tribal chanting, it could put the audience and the dancers
in a trance
4. Diwdiw-asis 5 or more different size of slender bamboo that
is tied together.
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with the open end held against the lower lip of the player as he blows directly across
the top. The pipe can be played individually by one person or in ensembles of three or
more.
6. Solibao is hallow wooden Igorot drug topped with pig skin or lizard
skin this is played by striking the drum head using the palm of the hand.
southern islands of the Philippines, along with its varied accompanying ensembles.
ensembles. Different groups have different ways of playing
the kulintang. Two major groups seem to stand-out in kulintangmusic. These are the
Maguindanaon and the Maranaw. The kulintang instrument itself could be traced to
either the introduction of gongs to Southeast Asia from China from before the 10th
century CE, or more likely, to the introduction of bossed gong chimes from Java in the
15th century.
Harana and Kundiman:
individual performers hitting bamboopoles, using them to beat, tap, and slide on the
ground, in co-ordination with one or more dancers who steps over and in between
poles
Cariosa: