MUSDIKS:awit

Awit - /a-weet/ genre of song from Sariaya, Quezon where the singers answer each other in sung prose while toasting with the local coconut vodka called lambanog.

Word: awit Source of Term: Filipino Heritage vol. 8 Language: Tagalog Category: Literary form/Repertoire/form Description: A literary form. A legend written in verse, based on the story of the crusades

            or  the war between the Moros and the Christians. It is also an epic or heroic
            poem written in filipino or spanish. Awit as a song is a special tune or 
            melody adapted to the reading of the awit or corrido. It is a direct offspring
            of the kumintang. Written in ¾ time, it is similar to the so called strophic 
            form of song, every verse being sung to the same tune.