Music

• Asian theater


  Combination of music, visual arts, and drama. Performers communicate their ideas and experiences through speech, dance, songs, facial expressions, and movements
• Asian theater


  • EXCITING and COLORFUL. From drama to musical to the use of puppetry, each plot of presentation depicts the values, aspirations, and music of Asia
• Dance and music


  Inseparable in Asian Theater
• Wayang Kulit


  A form of puppetry that utilizes two-dimensional leather puppets that cast shadows on a screen. It is one of the highest form of art in Indonesia. Indonesian communities get their dose of stories through the Wayang Kulit
• Earliest record of Wayang Kulit

  800

  
• Kabuki


  A theatrical form in Japan that involves singing, dancing, and acting in a certain unique style
• Mahabharata


  A Hindu epic from India. One of the major stories told in Wayang Kulit
• Kabuki


  • Started by Okuni, who gathered a group of women and created popular presentations about the life in the shrine
  • The Tokugawa Shogunate banned the performance and were replaced by young boys instead
  • Again, this was banned and older males took the roles in Kabuki performance
• Jester Semar


  Performed only in Indonesia
• Noh


  • Popular to the upper class men
  • Refined and elegant
  • Have curtains and Hanamichi or cat walk
• Kabuki


  • Gained more ground during the fall of the samurai class and rise of the merchant commoner
  • More rough and without restrain
• Rod puppets in China


  Predecessors of the nighttime puppetry
• Period of development of Wayang Kulit during Hindu-Buddhist period

  800-1500
• Aji Saka


  Prince that bought Indian culture to Java, he came with hanacaraka, the sanskritized Javanese alphabet
• Kabuki


  "shocking" or "bizarre" but it is translated in modern terms as song (Ka), dance (Bu), and skill (Ki)

  
• Wayang Kulit


  Based on two Hindu epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata
• Kabuki


  • An avenue for a performer to show his skill in visual and vocal performance
  • The language used is an ancient form of Japanese
  • Kabuki performances usually run from morning to sunset

  
• The main theme of Kabuki is "reward the virtuous, punish the wicked"
• Balinese


  Pre-Islamic performance
• Onnagata or Oyama


  A performer of female role. They have developed a unique style of acting and have used their skills even outside Kabuki such as television shows
• Javanese


  Wali - the saints who converted them into Islam and created Wayang Kulit
• Nagauta


  The music that accompanies Kabuki. It includes singers, shamisen players, drum players, and flutists. The performance style of Nagauta is similar to Noh
• Wayang


  Means "puppet"
• Peking opera, or Beijing opera


  The most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics
• Kulit


  Means "leather"
• Pitch


  Refers to the artistic use of pitch
• Bayang


  Indonesian word which means shadow, also sometimes associated with Wayang
• Rhythm


  Complements singing by creating a sense of rhythm
• Waya


  Ancestors descending
• Movement


  Creates visible movements
• Wayang Kulit performance


  1. Lasts from evening until dawn

  2. Accompanied by a gamelan orchestra

  3. Free to watch in village settings

  4. Birthdays, weddings, social issues, political campaigns, and many more
• Peking Opera


  Combination of combat and dance
• Traditionally, people watch from

  Shadow side. Today, they allow people to view either the shadow or Dhalang side
• Jinghu


  A Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family. It is the smallest and highest pitch instrument in huqiuin family
• Dhalang


  • Master of different arts. Master storyteller, puppeteer, a conductor, a socio-political commentator, a spiritual adviser, and an entertainer. Linguist, having mastered an ancient language non but the Dhalang use
• Yueqin


  One of a family of flat, round-bodied lutes
• Gamelan


  Accompanies the Wayang Kulit performance along with the Pesidhen and Penggerong. Instruments may vary
• Xipi


  Melodies are disjoint, high-pitched, and loud. It is used in telling stories of joy
• Dhalang uses


  1. Verbal cues in the form of riddles that give a clue to the title of the required composition

  2. Musical cues from short melodies he gives out himself
• Erhuang


  Melodies are low-pitched, soft, and is the opposite of the joyful qualities of Xipi