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