music

• Festivals are an expressive way to celebrate glorious heritage, culture and traditions
• Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage
• -Japan is rich in culture and tradition.
• Ikebana and cherry blossoms, to name a few, represent the beauty of its cultural heritage
• Both noh and kabuki are unique and genuine expressions of the Japanese spirit and culture.
• Sakura is one of the popular traditional songs of Japan. Translated as Cherry Blossoms in English
• CONTINUOUS PATTERN OR ipponchoshi -is used in speeches building up to an explosive climax in the aragoto (oversize, supernatural, rough hero) style, it requires an extraordinary breath control that only few experts succeed in achieving
• nori -it implies a very sensitive capacity of riding the rhythms of the shamisen (string instrument), declaiming each accompaniment
• Yakuharai - it is a technique in the same way describes the subtle delivery of poetical text written in the Japanese metrical form of alternating 7 and 5 syllables.
• • CHINESE THEATER-traditionally was considered as the highest form of arts in China.
• PEKING OPERA THEATER - is a stylized Chinese form of opera dating from the late 18th century, in which speech, singing, mime, and acrobatics are performed to an instrumental accompaniment.
• Peking Opera - has two main styles of music, namely: erh-huang and his-p'l. These styles are very similar, and the only difference is the key. His-p'l has lower sound than the erh-huang. They also utilize the technique called fan-pan which is commonly used for soorowful songs, and is only sung by bearded characters
• It comprises about eight musicians sitting on stools in the far-corner of the stage. Each performance in a Peking Opera begins with ta-lo and siag-lo, a small and large gong and cymbals. In some performances they also start with a single skin drum or kettle drum,
• Wayang refer to kinds of puppet theaters, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang.
• Wayang Kulit, or shadow puppets, are without a doubt the best known of the Indonesian Wayang. Kulit means skin, and refers to the leather construction of the puppets that are carefully shaped with very fine tools and supported with carefully shaped buffalo horn handles and control rods
• It was given recognition as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on November 7, 2003 by UNESCO and required Indonesians to preserve their heritage
• 1. The stories are usually drawn from the Hindu epics:
  2. Ramayana
  3. Mahabharata
  4. Serat Menaka story about the Amir Hamza
• gunungan (gunung, mountain) or kayanon (forest) is the most important part of the show. It is used to signal the beginning and the end of the performance.
• Wayang Kulit Performance consists of shadows cast on a cotton screen and an oil lamp. In Java, most often used as a light source is a halogen electric light
• Wayang Sandosa has employed spotlights, colored lights and other innovation
• the puppeteer, dhalang(Java) / dalang (Bali)
• metal plates that the dhalang hits with his foot, kepyak
• a traditional Indonesian orchestra, gamelan
• shadow puppets wayang kulit
• a light source, blencong
• female singers and a male chorus, pesindhen and penggerong
• screen frame and screen, gawang and kelir, the main focus of the performance
• banana logs, gedebog: the pointed sticks of the wayang base handle pierce the peeled trunk of a banana tree and the spongy substance holds the puppets in place a
• puppet box kothak
• elements of performance

  A) kelir

  B) blencong

  C) puppet

  D) gawang

  E) gedebog

  F) campala

  G) kothak

  H) dhalang