music

• kabuki


  most important japanese contribution
• noh and kabuki


  unique and genuine expressions
• sakura


  traditional folk song and known as pentatonic scale
• vocal patterns and techniques

  • ipponchoshi - continuous pattern
  • nori - talk by chanting
  • yakuharai - poetical form
• dance and movement accompanied by shamisen
• • gagaku - classical court music
  • kagura - performed in shinto shrines
  • no - chant
  • nagauta - love song
• shadow puppet theater

  indonesian theater
• wayang kulit


  royal court
• wayang


  theater
• kulit


  skin
• audience


  most important
• right

  good
• left

  bad
• dalang 


  puppeteer
• gamelan ensemble


  bronze percussion instruments
• saron


  xylophone with heavy bronze bars
• gender


  with resonance chembers
• bonang


  set of bronze bowl
• gong and kempul


  hanging gong
• kenong and ketuk


  bronze bowl
• gambang


  wooden xylophone
• rebab


  two stringed fiddle
• suling 


  flute
• kendang


  horizontal drum
• tjelempung


  a zither of thirteen
• suluk


  mood song
• chinese theater


  highest form of arts in china
• peking opera


  known as beijing opera, still follows traditional chinese arts in stressing meaning rather than precise actions
• two main style music

  erh-huang

  his-p'l - lower sound than erh huang
• wayang kulit


  indonesian theater
• wayang


  kind of puppet theaters
• wayang kulit puppets are made from water buffalo leather
• 3 functions


  instructive

  entertaining

  religious
• gunungan


  most important part of the show
• musical instruments of peking opera


  ti-ts - cross flute

  siao - recorded flutes

  sona - trumpet
• hammer knock on puppet box

  cempala
• metal plates with his foot

  kepyak
• indonesian orchestra

  gamelan
• shadow puppets

  wayang kulit
• a light source

  blencong