Pre-Colonial Times

1. Kalusan (Ivatan), soliranin (Tagalog rowing song) or the mambayu, a Kalinga rice-pounding song.

1.1. WORK SONGS

2. Rhyming verse

3. is mono-riming heptasyllabic quantrain

4. Folk Song

5. a form of lyric, expresses the hopes and aspiration, the people's lifestyles as well as their loves

6. melodies are often repetitive abd sonorous, didatic and naive as in children's songs or Ida-ida (Maguindanao),

7. lullabyes or Ili-ili (Ilongo); love songs like the panawagan and balitao (Ilongo); harana or seranade (Cebuano); the bayok (Maranao) and the seven- syllable per line poem, ambahan of the Mangyans

8. Narrative song

8.1. Kissa the Tausug of Mindanao

8.2. the parang sabil

9. tagay (Cebuano and Waray); dirges and lamentations the kanogan (Cebuano) or the Annako (Bontoc)

9.1. DRINKING SONGS

10. Epics

10.1. Guman (SUbanon); Darangen (Maranao); Hudhuh (Ifugao); and Ulahingan (Manobo)

11. These epics revolves supernatural events or heroic deeds and they embody or validate the beliefs and customs and ideals of a community.

12. Epics from other region

12.1. The Lam-ang (Ilocano); Hinilawod (Sulod); Kudaman (Palawan) Darangen (Maranao); Ulahingan (Livunganen-Arumanen Manobo); Mangivayt Buhong na Langit (The Maiden of the Buhong Sky from Tuwaang-Manobo); AgTobig neg Keboklagan (Subanon); and Tudbulol (T'boli)

13. inhabitants of our islands showcase a rich past through their speeches, songs, narrative, and indigenous rituals and mimetic dances.

14. Being the period of time before colonization of a region or territory

15. Indigenous Expression

15.1. are folk narratives, epics and folk tales

15.2. varied, exotic and magical

16. Riddle which is tigmo in Cebuano, bugtong in tagalogn paktakon in Ilongo and patototdon in Bicol

17. is talinghaga or methaphor because it "reveals subtle resemblances between two unlike objects".

18. Basahan or extended didactic sayings from Bukidnon and the daraida and daragilon from Panay.