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What is Hudhud chants of the Ifugao?
The Hudhud consists of narrative chants traditionally performed by the Ifugao community, which is well known for its rice terraces extending over the highlands of the northern island of the Philippine archipelago. It is practised during the rice sowing season, at harvest time and at funeral wakes and rituals.
What is the vocal characteristic of Hudhud Hi Aliguyon?
The Hudhud comprises more than 200 chants, with each divided into 40 episodes. A complete recitation may last three to four days. The language of the stories abounds in figurative expressions and repetitions and employs metonymy, metaphor and onomatopoeia.
What stories are chanted in the Hudhud?
The chant tells about ancestral heroes, customary law, religious beliefs and traditional practices, and reflects the importance of rice cultivation. The narrators, mainly elderly women, hold a key position in the community, both as historians and preachers.
What is the song Hudhud?
Hudhud is a tradition of narrative songs from the Ifugao region of the northern Philippine island of Luzón . Ifugao is known for its terraced rice fields in the mountains. This tradition is practiced during rice planting, as well as in funerals and funeral rituals.
What are the Plan of Action of Hudhud chants of Ifugao?
The project aims to collect, document and record the Hudhud as well as integrate it into local school programmes, create schools in order to teach it and ensure its transmission as a living tradition to new generations of practitioners.
In what occasion does the Hudhud which is a chanted epic poetry is recited and chanted?
The hudhud is recited and chanted among the Ifugao only during four occasions: the harvesting and weeding of rice, funeral wakes, and bone-washing (bogwa) rituals.
What are the Plan of Action of HudHud chants of Ifugao?
Why is the HudHud important to Ifugao?
Hudhud is a form and manner of chanting stories among the Ifugao people [1]. The chant tells about ancestral heroes, customary law, religious beliefs and traditional practices, and reflects the importance of rice cultivation [2].
What is the function of Hudhud?
The traditional hudhud serves at least three functions in Ifugao society. The first is that of a labor song, serving to keep all the harvesters at work in unison. The second relates to the belief that the singing of the hudhud while harvesting traditional varieties of rice will spur a miraculous growth of the crop.
What kind of bird was HudHud?
the Hoopoe
However, ‘HudHud’ turned out to be a killer of the very birds that the cyclone was named after. While the bird is called ‘HudHud’ in Arabic, in English it is known as the Hoopoe. The scientific name of the bird is Upupu epops. The 31 cm in length bird is listed among the 484 bird species known in Andhra Pradesh.
What is the tempo of HudHud?
Hud Hud is played at 172 Beats Per Minute (Presto), or 57 Measures/Bars Per Minute.
What is the meaning of Al Hudhud?
Hudhud – Arabic word for Hoopoe bird mentioned twice in Quran.
What kind of bird was Hudhud?
What is Hudhud called in English?
While the bird is called ‘HudHud’ in Arabic, in English it is known as the Hoopoe. The scientific name of the bird is Upupu epops. The 31 cm in length bird is listed among the 484 bird species known in Andhra Pradesh.