Explanation:
Life cycle songs
Events depicted through songs such as lullabies, songs related to birth, courtship, wedding rits and lamentation for the dead.
Responsorial singing or leader-chorus type
Used in thanksgiving rituals, in Peshit on anniversary feasts or weddings and Du-udyeng or ta-tamiya on ceremonies for dead.
Songs for special rituals
Performed for various purposes and important feasts.
Songs for the departed
Songs performed for the dead.
Courtship and marriage ceremonial songs
Love songs, like the Manobo courtship songs sangong-sangong which are accompanied by saluray, kugot or kitara.
Song debates or alternating response
This done by male and female singers, the topic of the debate center on everyday life which are witty and humorous in nature.
Epic songs
Chanted at weddings, gatherings or at evening entertainment performances. These songs describe the lives of gods and heroes.
Occupational songs
Songs while farming, fishing, doing some simple chores such as indowan which is to call people to plant rice in Mandaya; sowa which sung to protect the fields from pests, and layad-layad which are harvest songs in Manobo.
Solo songs
Performed unaccompanied by onor or pabubayok in all kinds of occasions.
Wedding feasts
Where there is music making
