MAPEH 8

• 1. JAPANESE THEATER - Japan is rich in culture and tradition
• Ikebana and Sakura (Cherry blossoms) represent thebeauty of japanese cultural heritage
• Noh is considered the most important Japanese
• Theater began in the end of the 16th century
• Noh and Kabuki are unique and genuine expressions of the Japanese spirit and culture
• One of the key features of Japanese theater is the vocal technique used in singing.
• IPPONCHOSHI - Is a continuous pattern used in speeches building up to an explosive climax in the ARAGOTO (oversize, supernatural hero) style
• IPPONCHOSHI - Requires an extraordinary breath control that only few experts succeed in achieving
• NORI - Implies a very sensitive capacity of riding the rhythms of the SHAMISEN (string instruments)
• YAKUHARAI - Subtle delivery of poetical text written in the Japanese metrical form of alternating 7 or 5 syllables
• VOCAL AND INSTRUMENT FEATURES - Dances and movements are accompanied by shamisen music.
• NAUGATA - Is the most popular shamisen music. It is a love song used as dance music
• 2. CHINESE THEATER - Considered as the highest form of arts in China
• PEKING OPERA - Is a stylized Chinese form of opera dating from the 18th century in which speech, singing, mime, and acrobatics are performed to an instrumental accompaniment.

  Regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China and was extremely popular in the Qing dynasty.
• Peking opera has 2 main styles: 1. ERRHUANG 2. HIS PL
• Peking opera - Has lower sound than errhuang
• FAN-PAN - Used for sorrowful songs and sung by bearded characters
• PEKING OPERA - Comprise of 8 musicians sitting on stools in the far corner of the stage PEKING OPERA - Each performance begins in TANGLO and SIAGLO, a smalland large gong and cymbals PEKING OPERA - Music is an integral part of every performance PEKING OPERA - It provides an atmospheric background, accompanies themany sung passages, controls the timing of movements
• 3. INDONESIAN THEATER 1. SHADOW PUPPET THEATER 2. WAYANG KULIT

  3.WAYANG 4. KULIT
• SHADOW PUPPET THEATER - Well known Indonesian theater

  WAYANG KULIT - One of the oldest continuous tradition of story telling in theworld which includes the use of puppet materials and background musical accompaniment WAYANG - Indonesian Malay word for theatre KULIT - means skin, refers to leather construction
• SHADOW PUPPET THEATER - Well known Indonesian theater
• KULIT - means skin, refers to leather construction
• WAYANG - Indonesian Malay word for theatre
• WAYANG KULIT - One of the oldest continuous tradition of story telling in theworld which includes the use of puppet materials and background musical accompaniment
• Audience is the most important person in Wayang Kulit performance
• DALANG - Prepares all the materials used like cloth and light for shado
• DALANG - Characterized by his being creative, humorous and flexibility
• DALANG - Manipulates the puppets, sings taps out signals to the orchestra
• DALANG - Speaks the parts of all the characters DALANG - The puppet on the right signifies the good character and on the left, the bad character Music: Gamelan Orchestra