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traditional asian Theater

1. Traditional Asian
Theater Music

2. What I Know
Direction: Identify whether the following characteristics describe a Kabuki or Peking Opera
 ____________1. Combination of song, dance, and skill.
_____________ 2. Founded in 1603 by Okuni.
_____________3. Also called Beijing Opera.
_____________4. Combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics.
_____________5. Dances and movements are accompanied by shamisen music.
_____________6. Arose in the late 18th century.
_____________7. Stress meaning rather than precise actions.
_____________8. Melodies are rhythmic and graceful.
_____________9. It has a vocal pattern or technique called Ipponchōshi or the continuous pattern.
_____________10. The first category is aria.

3. What’s In
Identification. As a review of our previous lessons, identify the following
instruments according to the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Instruments.
1. 2.
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4. What Is It?

5. JAPANESE THEATER (KABUKI)
The traditional form of popular theater began at the end of
the 16th century and soon became the most successful
theater entertainment in the red light districts of the great
cities.

6. Kabuki
-is a Japanese traditional theatre
art that is performed in a
stylized manner which
combines acting, singing, and
dancing.
-This rich blend of music,
mime, dance, costume, and
props has been in existence for
almost four centuries.
-The term Kabuki in modern
Japanese means: ka, “song”;
bu, “dance”; and ki, “skill.”

7. Kabuki
-It is a highly play that actors show their wide range
of skills in visual and vocal performance.
-Kabuki was founded in 1603 by Okuni, a Shinto
priestess. She and her troupe of mostly women
performed dances and comic sketches on a temporary
stage set up in the dry riverbed of the Komagawa
River in Kyoto.
-Her troupe gained national recognition and their
plays evolved into kabuki that would later become
one of the three major classical theater of Japan.

8. Japanese musical instruments that
accompany the Kabuki:

9. Shamisen
The most common of kabuki instruments. It is a plucked stringed
instrument.

10. Tsuzumi
An hourglass-shaped drum.

11. Odaiko
A big drum.

12. Vocal and Instrumental Features
Dances and movements are accompanied by shamisen music which collected and
popularized a number of aspects from all previous forms of Japanese music, from
gagaku (classic 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), down to the folk songs and
fashionable songs of the day.
The most popular shamisen music was called nagauta (long song) which reached
a golden age in the first half of the 19th century as dance music for the henge
mono or quick change pieces.

13. Nagauta music
- is very flexible, can be
performed by one shamisen
or by an entire orchestra of
twenty musicians, of which
ten are shamisen players,
while other play flutes (fue
taken from the nō) and drums
(small drum-kotsuzumi;
waist drum-ōtsuzumi; stick
drum-taiko).

14. CHINESE THEATER (PEKING
OPERA) Peking opera is a form of traditional Chinese
theater which combines music, vocal performance,
mime, dance, and acrobatics.
It arose in the late 18th century and became fully
developed and recognized by the mid19th century.
The form was extremely popular in the Qing
Dynasty court and has come to be regarded as one of
the cultural treasures of China.

15. Peking opera
-also known as the Beijing
opera, still follows traditional
Chinese arts in stressing
meaning, rather than precise
actions.
-The opera artists’ goal is to
make every performance
exceptionally beautiful in every
movement they will make.
-Performances are accompanied by music - usually played on
three types of instruments: wind instruments (aerophone), string
instruments (chordophone), and percussion instruments
(membranophone or idiophone).

16. The main instruments are Chinese in
origin:
1) Jinghu - a two-stringed instrument played with a bow
2) Yueqin - a four-stringed instrument that is plucked
3) Sanxian - a three-stringed instrument that is also plucked
4) Variety of gongs and cymbals – creates rhythmic and graceful melodies

17. Vocal and Instrumental Features
The main instruments are Chinese in origin: the jinghu, a two-
stringed instrument played with a bow, the yueqin, a four-stringed
instrument that is plucked, a sanxian, a three-stringed instrument
which is also plucked, the suona horn, Chinese flutes, and a variety
of gongs and cymbals. The melodies are rhythmic and graceful.
The melodies played by the accompaniment mainly fall into three
broad categories.

18. WAYANG KULIT (SHADOW PUPPET
THEATER)
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.
“Wayang” is an Indonesian term for theater and
“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.

19. The Gamelan is used to accompany Wayang Kulit. The gamelan is
silent when the Dalang is speaking, except when it rattles and
clanks to emphasize a statement or phrase.
Gamelan players react instinctively to the Dalang's timing and
narration, and play music accordingly.

20. What I Have Learned
Congratulations on completing this module. Before we proceed, what are your
thoughts about this lesson? Share your insights by completing the following
sentence prompts. Do this neatly and creatively in your MAPEH notebook.
I have learned that ______________________________________.
I have realized that ______________________________________.
I will apply _____________________________________________.

21. What I Can Do
Direction: On a short bondpaper, draw at least two accompanying
instruments of Kabuki and two accompanying instruments of Peking
Opera.

22. Assessment
1. This is also called Beijing Opera.
A. Kabuki B. Noh C. Peking D. Wayang Kulit
2. What do you call the Japanese traditional theatre art that is performed in a stylized manner which combines acting, singing,
and dancing?
A. Kabuki B. Noh C. Peking D. Wayang Kulit
3. In kabuki, “ka” means _________.
A. dance B. skill C. song D. speak
4. In kabuki, “ki” means ________.
A. dance B. skill C. song D. speak
5. Kabuki was founded in ______ by Okuni, a Shinto priestess.
A. 1603 B. 1703 C. 1803 D. 1903

23. Assessment
6. A four-plucked stringed instrument that is used to accompany Peking Opera.
A. Jinghu B. Odaiko C. Sanxian D. Yueqin
7. A three- plucked stringed instrument used to accompany Peking Opera.
A. Jinghu B. Odaiko C. Sanxian D. Yueqin
8. A two-bowed stringed instrument that is used to accompany Peking Opera.
A. Jinghu B. Odaiko C. Sanxian D. Yueqin
9. An hourglass-shaped drum used to accompany Kabuki.
A. Odaiko B. Shamisen C. Taiko D. Tsuzumi
10. What do you call the subtle delivery of poetical text written in the Japanese metrical form of alternating seven and five
syllables?
A. Ipponchōshi B. Ka C. Nori D. Yakuharai

24. Additional Activities
Share your insight by completing the phrase. For me,
music of an Asian musical theater is
________________________________.