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• Peking opera


  A form of Chinese opera which combines music, vocal performance, dance and acrobatics
• Aim of Peking opera performer

  • To put beauty into every motion
• Chinese theater traditionally was considered as the highest form of arts in China
• Peking opera performances

  • Accompanied by music usually played on three types of instruments: wind, string, and percussion
• Kabuki


  A form of traditional Japanese drama with highly stylized song, mime, and dance, now performed only by male actors
• Ipponchoshi


  The continuous pattern used in speeches building up to an explosive climax in the aragato style
• Kagura


  Performed in Shinto shrines
• Nagauta


  Very flexible, can be performed by one shamisen or by an entire orchestra of 20 musicians
• Kabuki is the traditional form of Japanese theater which began at the end of the 16th century
• Yakurahai


  The subtle delivery of poetical text written in the Japanese metrical form of alternating seven and five syllables
• Kabuki

  The word is written with three characters that mean KA, "song"; BU, "dance"; KI, "art/skill"
• Wayang Kulit


  An Indonesian form of shadow puppetry
• Dalang

  The puppeteer in Wayang Kulit
• In Wayang Kulit sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang
• Gamelan Ensemble


  Comprised mainly by bronze percussion instruments augmented by other percussion instruments, strings, and a flute
• Yue-ch'in/Yueqin


  A four-stringed moon guitar
• Qupai


  Instrumental tunes that serve a wider range of purposes than arias
• Nori


  Adapted from the chanting or jōruri
• Kendang


  Horizontal drum beat with the fingers on both ends
• Gong and Kempul


  Hanging gongs
• Kabuki


  A form of traditional Japanese drama with highly stylized song, mime, and dance
• Suppon


  Platform that rises from below the stage
• Aragoto


  Male roles
• Gamelan


  Traditional Indonesian orchestra accompany the shadow puppet theater
• Hindu epics used in Wayang Kulit

  • Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Serat Menak
• Sheng


  The main male role in Peking Opera
• Blengcong


  Light source
• Jidaimono


  Historical or pre-Sengoku period stories
• Qingyi


  Virtuous and elite women
• Chou


  A male clown role. The chou usually plays secondary roles whose name also "ugly"
• Laosheng


  Dignified older role
• In Peking Opera walking in large circle symbolizes travelling a long distance
• Kabuki


  Derive from the verb kabuku , meaning "to lean" or "to be out of the ordinary"
• Onnagata


  Female roles in Kabuki
• Cempala


  Hammer used by the dhalang to knock on the puppet box
• Kepyak


  Metal plates that the dhalang hits with his foot
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• Xiaosheng


  Actors are often involved with beautiful women by virtue of the handsome and young image they project
• Wusheng


  Martial character for role involving combat. They are highly trained in acrobatics and have a natural voice in singing
• Kabukimono


  An expression referred to those who were bizarrely dressed and paraded on a street