Music

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Ikebana and cherry blossoms

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Represent the beauty of its cultural heritage

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Traditional form of theater

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Traditions that is very popular until today which began at the end of sixteenth century

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Traditional form of theater

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Became the most successful theater entertainment in the red light districts of the great cities

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No and Kabuki

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Considered as the most important Japanese contribution to world theater

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Noh and Kabuki

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Are unique and genuine expressions of the Japanese spirit and culture.

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Sakura

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One of the popular traditional songs of Japan that produces distinct characteristics used in the Asian style of making melodies.

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Pentatonic scale

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Distinct characteristics used in the Asian style I'd making melodies that is adopted mainly in China.

- this style is mostly used in noh and Kabuki

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Vocal technique used in singing

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One of the key features of Japanese theater

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Ipponchoshi

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Or the continuos pattern used in speeches building up to an explosive climax hn thd aragato style

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Aragato

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Oversize, supernatural, rough hero style

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Ipponchoshi

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Repuires an extraordinary breath control that only few experts succeed in achieving

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Nori

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Technique adapted from chanting joruri . it implies a very sensitive capacity of riding the rhythms of the shamisen

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Shamisen

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string instrument

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Yakuharai technique

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subtle delivery of poetical text written in Japanese metrical form of alternating seven and five syllables

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Dance and movements

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These are accompanied. by shamisen instruments

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Gagaku

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Classic court music imported from China during the 18th century

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Kagura

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Performed in shinto shrines

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Nô

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Chant derives from shomyo, the sophisticated and rich tradition of Buddhist chanting

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Nagauta

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Popular shamisen music also called as long song

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Henge mono

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Quick change pieces

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Nagauta

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Reached a golden age in the first half of the 19th century as dance music for henge mono.

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Can be performed by one shamisen or by an entire orchestra of twenty musicians

Ten are shamisen players while others play flutes and drums

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How is Nagauta performed

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Kotsuzumi

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Small drum

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Otsuzumi

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Waist drum

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Taiko

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Stick drum

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Chinese theater

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Traditionally considered as the highest form of arts in China

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Peking opera theater

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According to the Oxford dictionary, it is the stylized Chinese form of opera dating from the late 18th century

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18th century

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Century in which speech, singing, mime and acrobatics are performed to an instrumental accompaniment

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Peking opera theater

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Regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China

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Qing Dynasty court

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What dynasty court was the peking opera theater extremely popular?

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Erh-huang and his-p'l

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Two main styles of peking opera kusic

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His-p'l

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It has a lower sound than Erh-huang. They also utilize the technique called fan-pan

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Comprises about eight musicians sitting on stools in the far corner of the stage

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What comprises of peking opera?

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Ta-lo and siag-lo

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Each performance in a peking opera begins with?

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Ta-lo and siag-lo

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A small and large gong cymbals

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Music

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It is an integral part of every performance

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Ti-ts

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Cross flutes- usually played along with singing

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Siao

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Recorded flutes -usually played along with singing

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Sona

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Trumpet announces prosperous occasions

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Ti-ts

Siao

Sona

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Aerophone instruments

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Hu-ch'in and Bu-chin

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Two-stringed instruments

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Hu-ch'in

Bu-chin

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Violin like instruments

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Yue-ch'in

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Four stringed instruments

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San-sien

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Three-stringed instruments

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Pi-p'a

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Similar to lute with four strings

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Yue-ch'in

San-sien

Pi-p'a

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Guitar-like instruments

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Ta-lo and Siao-lo

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Gongs that signify the beginning of performance

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Tan-pi-ku

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Kettle drum used to create the tempo of the performance.

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Ta-lo

Siao-lo

Tan-pi-ku

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Idiophone instruments

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Chou

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Rarely has a singing part in peking opera

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To put beauty into every motion

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Highest aim of the performers of Peking opera

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Shadow puppet Theater

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Is a well-known Indonesian theater

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Wayang Kulit

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One of the oldest continuous traditions of storytelling in the world

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Wayang kulit

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Includes the use of puppet materials and background musical accompaniment.

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Wayang

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Indonesian-Malay word for Theater

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Kulit

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Means skin. Refers to the leather construction of the puppets cut into very fine tools and supported with buffalo horns

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Audience

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The most important person in a wayang kulit performance

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Puppets in the right side of the stage

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Signifies the good character

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Puppets on the left side of stage

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Signifies the bad character

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Open space between the puppets about two meters

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Represents the stage

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Dalang

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Characterized by his being creative humurous and flexible.

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In royal court and in public on religious occasions

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Where is wayang kulit performed

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Use of voice interchangeably

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Main ability of a dalang to give more life to the character

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Saron

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Xylophone of heavy bronze bars

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Gender

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Bronze xylophone with resonance chambers beneath

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Bonang

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Set of bronze bowls

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Gong and kempul

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Hanging gongs

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Kenong and kentuk

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Single inverted bronze bowl

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Gambang

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Wooden xylophone

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Rebab

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Two stringed fiddle

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Suling

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Flute

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Kendang

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Horizontal drum beat with the fingers in both ends

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Tjelempung

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A zither of thirteen double strings

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The preponderance of bronze instruments

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Fives gamelan music a bright lingering sound

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Accompanies singing and stage actions including dance

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Two dramatic function of music to the theater

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Suluk

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Mood songs

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Jinghu

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Two-stringed instruments played with a bow

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Yueqin

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Four stringed instrument that is plucked

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Sanxian

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Three stringed instrument which is also plucked

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Variety of gongs and cymbals

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creates rhythmic and graceful melodies

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Wawadiao

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An aria in xipi style that is sung by a young she ng to indicate heightened emotion

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Qupai

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Okuni

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A shinto princess who founded the Kabuki in 1603