Music & Arts - Theatrical Music

• wayang - play, shadow, ghost or puppet
• kulit - leather or skin
• Wayang Kulit was originated from two epic stories, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
• wayang - may also tell the life of an ordinary person, his or her experiences, and is or her role in the society
• Puppets - sizes should range from 6 inches to more than 3 feet which are mounted on sticks from the buffalo horn
• Dalang - the manipulator-narrator, sits cross-legged at the back of the screen or a cloth (kelir)
• Musicians - also known as Niyaga; accompany the dalang in delivering the play
• Lights - may be in a form of using a traditional open coconut oil lamp (blencong) or electric bulb
• Pesinden - female singers
• Wayang Kulit - Have magical and spiritual significance- especially to the people of Java and Bali
• Believed the they are protected against evil spirits when they watch the play
• White screen - UNIVERSE (natives go on w/ their lives)
• Screen's brighter side - Representation of material world
• screen's darker - side the afterlife
• Oil lamp (blencong shaped garuda) - Sunrays needed by all living things
• Balinese - realistic, folks, 4 sets of gendee
• Javanese - stylized, courts, full gamelan
• Wayang Kulit Stories - centers on the battle between good and evil, the overcoming of disorder after efforts are made
• Legong - a well-known dance-drama in Bali, Indonesia; girls wear colorful sarongs and flower headdresses
• Kecak - named after an old Balinese monkey chant; a male chorus produces the "cak-ak" sound of the monkeys
• Semar - a character in Javanese mythology who is always portrayed short and fat with pug nose
• Gareng - often regarded as the elder son of Semar; he is a deformed dwarf
• Wayang Kulit Characters - 4 Panakawan or Punokawan
• Petruk - second son of Semar; has a large, predatory mouth and a long nose
• Bagong - youngest son of Semar; a very fat man with a big belly and enormous buttocks
• Wayang Wong or Wayang Orang - the performers act in the roles of the puppet on the stage Wayang Golek

  
• Wayang Golek - an imitation of human actor who in turn imitates a puppet puppets are shaped like wooden dolls

  
• Wayang Topeng or Wayang Gedog - performed by men who wear masks which are referred as topeng. it narrates the activities of noble men who lived in East Java

  
• Wayang Klitik - wooden puppets are flat, carved in shallow relief, and painted not dressed

  
• Kabuki came from the Japanese terms ka meaning "song", bu meaning "dance", and ki meaning "skill."
• Kabuki - Incorporates music, dance, mime and elaborate costumes
• One of the four forms of Japanese traditional theater, aside from Bunraku, Noh, and Kyogen.
• Bunraku - traditional puppet theater (half life-sized dolls)
• noh - ancient masked theater
• kyogen - Japanese comic theater
• Kabuki - originated in 17th century
• Okuni - female dancer
• Kabuki - Popular in performing parodies of Buddhist chants
• Female performers- precarious situations
• 1869- boys were tasked to perform the roles of the women