Music - Tradional Asian Theater Music

• • Kabuki - Combines acting, singing, and dancing. Founded in 1603 by Okuni. Became the most SUCCESSFUL THEATER ENTERTAINMENT. Most important JAPANESE contribution to world theater.

  KA - Song

  BU - Dance

  KI - Skill
• • SAKURA - tradional song of Japan, produces distinc characteristics used in the Asian style of making melodies also known as the PENTATONIC SCALE
• JAPANESE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

  • Shamisen - most common KABUKI instruments
  • Tsuzumi - HOURGLASS-shaped DRUM
  • Odaiko - a BIG drum
• JAPANESE SHAMISEN MUSIC

  • Gagaku - classical court music from CHINA during the 18th CENTURY
  • Kagura - performed in SHINTO Shrines
  • Nagauta - a love song which reached a golden age in the first half of the 19th CENTURY
• CHINESE Theather

  • Peking Opera - known as the "Beijing Opera"
  • Mime - form of entertainment in which a performer plays a character or tells story by using BODY Movements and FACIAL Expressions without VOICE
• Two Main STYLES OF MUSIC

  • Erh-huang
  • His-p'l

  These styles are very SIMILAR and the only difference is the KEY
• JAPANESE Theater

  • Kabuki
  • Sakura