kulintang

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kulintang (uncountable)

1. An ancient form of instrumental music of Southeast Asia, played on a row of small, horizontally-laid melodic gongs accompanied by larger suspended gongs and drums.
   • 2007 April 27, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times‎:

     “Electric Kulintang,” her percussive collaboration with Mr. Rodriguez, adds a contemporary sheen to the chiming kulintang music of the Philippines.

• untalking

• kulintangan
• kulintan

Compare Tboli klintang, Yakan kwintangan, Indonesian kolintang, Indonesian kelenteng, Javanese klenthéng (ꦏ꧀ꦭꦼꦤ꧀ꦛꦺꦁ).

• Hyphenation: ku‧lin‧tang
• IPA^(key): /kulinˈtaŋ/, [kʊ.lɪnˈtaŋ]

kulintang

1. (music) kulintang

• “kulintang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018