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• Israeli music


  Mixture of Jewish and non-Jewish music traditions
• Diversity of Israeli music

  • Developed an amount of canonical songs known as Shirei Eretz Yisrael or "Songs of the Land of Israel"
• First Jewish orchestra formed by the settlers

  1895
• The first Jewish orchestra is located in the town of Rishon Le Zion
• Uri Gurvich, an Israeli musician, was named the best up-and-coming jazz composer in 2012 and 2013
• Kinnor


  An ancient Israelite harp instrument, known as the "national instrument"
• Shofar


  A horn instrument used for Jewish religious purposes, a bugle-type instrument
• Timbrel or Timbret


  A tambourine-like instrument
• Darbuk


  A single-head goblet-shaped membranophone
• The darbuk was first featured in the Western classical composition Les Troyens, a five-act French grand opera
• Hava Nagila


  An Israeli folk song that became a globally hit because of its catchy tunes, expressing about tradition, ritual, and religion
• Wayang Kulit


  A shadow play, the most famous form of classical theater in Indonesia, where two-dimensional puppets are the highlights during a performance
• Wayang Kulit


  • The dalang, the manipulator-narrator, sits cross-legged at the back of a screen or cloth (kelir) and gives the movement and voice to the puppets
• Carillo


  A Philippine shadow puppet play that survived during the early part of the Spanish period
• Gamelan performance


  • The musicians play a significant role in accompanying the dalang in delivering the play, and the dalang gives signal to the musicians when music is needed in the scene
• Lights in Wayang Kulit


  May be in a form of using a traditional open coconut oil lamp (damar) or electric bulb that serves as light behind the white screen to give shadow to the puppet
• Wayang Wong or Wayang Orang


  The performers act the roles of the puppets on a stage, considered as one of the major Asian classical dance drama forms of theater
• Wayang Golek


  The puppets are shaped like wooden dolls with rounded heads
• Wayang Topeng or Wayang Gedog


  This is different from the other plays because of its focus in the story which narrates the activities of noble men who lived in East Java
• The wayang theater is a permanent part of Indonesian culture
• Wayang Klitik


  The wooden puppets are flat, carved in shallow relief, and painted not dressed
• Nang Yai


  A form of shadow play in Thailand, where Nang means "skin" and Nang Yai means "large shadow puppet"
• Kabuki


  A form of Japanese traditional theatre, where the word came from the Japanese terms ka meaning "song," bu meaning "dance," and ki meaning "skill"
• Kabuki originated by

  A woman, Okuni
• Debayashi


  An incidental music, also known as degatari
• Gidayubushi


  Similar to joruri, a form of Japanese traditional narrative music
• Shimoza ongaku


  Played in kuromist the lower stage below the stage
• Henry Cowell


  Composer who composed Ongaku for Orchestra
• Kabuki costumes


  • Bold colors and patterns to heighten the drama
• Kabuki makeup

  Extravagant, known as kumodori
• Noh


  One of the traditional theater forms from Japan that started in the fourteenth century, where actors wear masks to show emotions, meant for samurai and other high-class people, and actors would perform to earn the respect of the nobility
• Peking opera

  Developed in the Qing dynasty during the eighteenth century under the rule of the Emperor Qianlong, the most sophisticated and highly developed theatrical drama in China
• Peking opera


  Also known as the Beijing opera
• Mei Lanfang


  An opera singer who was the first actor to spread and perform Peking opera to foreign countries
• Peking opera's vocal production

  Composed of "four levels of song": songs with music, verse recitation, prose dialogue, and nonverbal vocalizations
• Xipi


  Used to express happiness
• Erhuang


  Used to express mood such as sorrow and melancholy
• Sheng


  The main male role
• Laosheng


  Distinguished older role
• Xiaosheng


  Young male role who sings in a high, shrill voice