BANGSAMORO VIRTUAL MUSEUM
 Maguindanaon |  Tausug |  Maranao |  Yakan |
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Kulintang
It has eight graduated gongs arranged horizontally in a case called Antangan. The pitch interval/succession of Maguindanaon Kulintang is not exactly like that of the Western music DO RE MI. The interval is more or less like DO RE FA SOL LA DO RE FA. If the Pangendungan or the biggest and first gong is lower than DO of the Western music, the following gongs will played by Maguindanon women. However, thru the years, this tradition has not been practiced for any gender can now play the Kulintang. In a Maguindanonkulintang player. Pentatonic property of Asian Music is dominant in a Maguindanon kulintang.
Maguindanaon
The territories of the Maguindanao-speaking people are liquid as much as solid. The lower Pulangi of the Mindanao River Basin—the Philippine’s second longest and broadest—is nearly coincident with the extend of Maguindanao spatial identity. It is a place that is inundated annually and defined by the largest wetlands in the Philippines, the Liguasan. This space is reckoned by the Maguindanao residents with respect to a polarity between upstream and downstream regions. Sa raya, upstream, and sa ilud, downstream regions correspond to a land-sea axis also, but a less overt east-west axis: as well as to a cultural-political-economic bilateral space. The upstream Buayan Maguindanao speakers built supra village politics with an orientation towards interior zone (forest and marsh) economics of extraction: differing from the downstream Cotabato harbor area Maguindanao speakers whose supra village politics were long oriented towards exchange with myriad peoples from outside.