A night long lasting song... What does it imply in the body, soul and mind of a singer of tales? What does it arouse in the mind, soul and body of each listener?"
Résumé
In an oral culture, to be able to sing an epic as well as listening to it, are a profound
collective experience.
Designated as ‘Literatures of voice’1 , epics are in fact ‘mental texts’2, or a ‘prenarrative’,
a pre-frame of reference (L. Honko, 1996), formerly heard and memorized, then
conveyed to an audience by another singer of tales most often at night time.
In Palawan Highlands, the sung narrative has to come to a close as the first rays of
the sun appear above the horizon. The performance may have last few hours, half a night, an
entire night, but also 2 or 6 to 7 non successive nights.
We are in presence of a construction of a mental model of human actions and the
plot leads to a moral statement. The task for the analyst is to comprehend the deep truth of
the story and several interpretations might be brought to light.
The core of an epic, consists of two major narrative ganglia, namely, a Quest for a
wife and the Deeds and Ordeals - an attack, a raid, a combat, a fight, a war - related to this
quest. The conflict generates a chaos and as the it slowly comes to a close, the emplotment
has to restore peace and harmony.
The numerous forms of poetic compositions in the Philippines are the seal of each
national cultural communities, and perpetuate their respective language, their music, their
ethics, a very peculiar way to inhabit poetically their world.
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