Music

• Kabuki - a Japanese traditional theatre art that is performed in a stylized manner which combines acting, singing, and dancing.
• Kabuki - music, mime, dance, costume, and props.
• Ka - song
• bu - dance
• ki -skill
• Kabuki was founded by okuni 1603
• Shamisen - the most common of kabuki instruments. It is a plucked stringed instrument.
• Tsuzumi - An hourglass-shaped drum.
• Odaiko - A big drum
• ipponchōshi or continuous pattern - used in speeches building up to an explosive climax in the aragoto (oversize, supernatural, rough hero) style; it requires an extraordinary breath control that only a few experts succeed in achieving.
• Nori technique - adapted from the chanting of jōruri, implies a very snsitive capacity of riding the rhythms of the shamisen, declaiming each accompaniment.
• Yakuharai technique - the subtle delivery of poetical text written in the japanese metrical form of alternating seven and five syllables.
• Gagaku - clasical court music imported from china during the 18th century.
• Kagura - performed in shinto shrines
• nō - chant derives from shōmyō, the sophisticated and rich tradition of buddhist chanting.
• Nagauta - the most popular shamisen music. Reached a golden age in the first half of the 19th century as dance music fro the henge mono or quick change pieces.
• Nagauta music is very flexible, can be performed by one shamisen or by an entire orchestra of twenty musicians, of which ten are shamisen playrs, while other play flutes and drums.
• Peking opera - a form of traditional chinese theater which combines music, vocal performace, mime, dance, and acrobatics.
• Peking opera also knows as beijing opera.
• Peking opera still fallows traditional chinese arts in stressing meaning rather than precise actions.
• Sanxian - a three stringed instrument that is also plucked
• Variety of gongs and cymbals - creates rhythmic and graceful melodies.
• Water dragon tune (shui long yin) - denotes the arrival of an important person.
• Triple thrust (ji san qiang) which may signala feast or banquet.
• The melodies played by the accompaniment mainly fall into three broad catergories; aria, gupai, and percussion pattern.
• wayang kulit - shadow puppets.
• Wayang kulit is prevelant in java and bali in Indonesia, and kelantan and terengganu in malaysia.
• Kulit means skin
• Wayang - is an indonesian and malay word for theater.
• Sometimes the puppet itself is reffered to as wayang.
• Bayang - the javanese owrd for shadow or imagination, also connotes spirit.
• performances of shadow puppet theater are accompanied by gamelan in Java and by gender wayang in bali
• Dalang is a source of recreation, of humor, or popular philosophy.
• Shadow play is an invention of man which reflects his experiences and nature and of his thought. Puppets are projected by the lamp on the white screen.
• Non-joined puppets were manipulated by the chief performer, the dalang.
• • saron - xylophone of heavy bronze
• gender bronze - xylophone with resonance

  chambers beneath
• • bonang - set of bronze bowls
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  gong and kempul – hanging gongs
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  tjelempung

  – a zither of thirteen

  double strings