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Record W4411363543 · doi:10.5206/notabene.v18i1.22232

“Wiyawi Ebi”: A Study of Kalinga Vocal Music from the Philippines

2025· article· en· W4411363543 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Kevin Catalon

Bibliographic record

VenueNota bene · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPhilippine History and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVocal musicArtVisual artsMusicMusic education

Abstract

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The Philippines has faced marginalization due to its colonial history, hindering the development of a cohesive national identity and a representation in musicological discourse. Among the country’s many Indigenous groups, the Kalinga people of the Cordilleras region remain unheard even within their own country. Focusing on the Kalinga song “Wiyawi,” this study examines the lullaby’s cultural significance, musical structure, and tuning systems through an analysis of field recordings and transcriptions by Felicidad A. Prudente. Drawing on the ethnomusicological frameworks of Prudente, José Maceda, and Aaron Prior, this research produces a new transcription of the song, which further reveals the lullaby’s role in the context of Kalinga traditions. Collaboration with members of the Kalinga culture enriched this work, yielding a newly expanded set of lyrics to “Wiyawi.” Additionally, the new transcription provides insight into the Kalinga tuning system in vocal music by investigating scholarship on anhemitonic scales in instrumental music. This paper calls for further ethnomusicological research and fieldwork to emphasize the importance of preserving Indigenous music in global musicological discourse and ensure that the voices of the Kalinga people are heard and valued.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.078
Threshold uncertainty score0.156

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.313
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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