MAPEH 4TH QUARTER

• Wayang kulit shadow puppets. prevalent in Java and Bali in Indonesia,and Kelantan and Terengganu in Malaysia are without a doubt the best known of the Indonesian wayang.
• •Shadow Puppet Theater is popular in Indonesia and some countries all over the world. It is one of the oldest traditional storytelling which includes puppet material with background MUSIC.
• Kulit" means skin which refers to puppet theater performance whose materials are Made of leather and has control rods. Another feature of "Wayang Kulit" is it is cast on the shadow
• The Dalang, a specific name for the puppeteer and storyteller who operates the puppets while narrating the story, speaking all of the dialogue, providing the sound effects, and conducting the Gamelan
• gender bronze xylophone with resonance chambers beneath
• tjelempunga zither of thirteen double strings
• Gambang wooden xylophone
• bonang set of bronze bowls
• rebab-two-stringed fiddle
• suling - flute
• gong and kempul hanging gongs
• kendang horizontal drum beat with the fingers on both end
• saron-xylophone of heavy bronze bars
• kenong and ketuk single inverted bronze bowl
• slow, majestic melodies of the Javanese gamelan to the clangorous vibrancy of the Balinese gamelan. Fiddle and flute add a delicate. counterpoint to a four-square pattern of percussive melody
• The Dalang sings the mood songs (suluk) at regular intervals during performance; in a nine hour wayangkulit
• Suluk are never accompanied by the full gamelan ensemble. Often a single instrument accompanies the singer,
• Djembe-They're played with hands, and skilled djembefola. It's gobletgoblet-shape drimdrum with a rich history in West Africa
• Irama

  Indonesian term for tempo
• Slendro

  Five (5) equidistant tones in octave
• Gamelan

  Most popular ensemble in Indonesia
• Javanese GamelanGamelan

  Ensemble used for court music
• Karawitan

  Term for every kind of gamelan music in Java
• Gendang

  A double-headeedouble-headee drum that sets the tempo and rhythm for the entire ensemble