Music

• peking opera - traditional theater art form of China

  • It is based in chinese history, folk lore, contemporary life
  • xipi and erhuang are main melodies
  • sheng - male
  • dan - girl
  • main skills - song, speech, dance-acting, and combat
  • whip, fans, and ore - used in plays
• peking opera colors

  • red - courage, bravery
  • black - roughness and fierceness
  • yellow - ambition and coolheadedness
  • purple - uprightness, sophistication
  • reddish purple - just and noble character
  • blue - loyalty
• japan kabuki - drama with highly stylized songs, mime, dance, and performed only by male actors

  • ka - song, bu - dance, ki - art
  • fullday time - performed
• three main categories of the kabuki play are

  • jidai - mono historical, pre sengoku period stories
  • sewa - mono domestic, post sengoku stories
  • shosagoto - dance pieces
  • onna-gata - female
  • aragoto - male roles
• Kabuki make up - rice powder used to create white oshiroi for the characteristics and kumadori for facial lines
• color of kumadori

  • red - passion heroism
  • pink - youthful
  • light blue - even temper
  • pale green - peacefulness
  • blue or black - villainy, jealousy
  • green - supernatural
  • purple - nobility
• wayang kulit - indonesian art or shadow play. lacy shadows are projected

  • Dalang - shadow artist
  • nang yai or thalung - shadow theater
  • songs and chants - performances in wayang kulit
  • raw cowhide - each shadow play figure is made of
• • dhalang (java) or dalang (bali) - puppeteer
  • gamelan - indonesian orchestra
  • wayang kulit - shadow puppets
  • blencong - light source