Music_Peking Opera.pptx

Music_Peking Opera

1. CHINESE THEATER MUSIC and ARTS Unit 4 – Theater and Festivals of Asia

2. also known as BEIJING OPERA started in the late 18 th century and became fully developed and recognized bymid-19 th century regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China follows other traditional Chinese arts in emphasizing meaning, rather than accuracy PEKING OPERA

3. combines music, vocal performance, pantomime, dance, and acrobatics PEKING OPERA

4. ROLES and CHARACTERS

5. XIAOSHENG

6. WUSHENG

7. LAOSHENG

8. LAODAN

9. WUDAN

10. DAOMADAN

11. QING YI

12. HUADAN

13. JING

14. CHOU

15. ELEMENTS

16. Performers utilize four main skills: song speech dance-acting (pure dance, pantomime and all other types of dance) combat (acrobatics and fighting with all manner of weaponry) PEKING OPERA

17. PEKING OPERA shoujiu

18. PEKING OPERA xingtou / xifu

19. PEKING OPERA

20. PEKING OPERA

21. PEKING OPERA

22. PEKING OPERA

23. MUSIC of PEKING OPERA

24. VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL FEATURES

25. Music of Peking Opera: ARIAS - e rhuang and x ipi s tyles QUPAI - fixed-tune melodies PERCUSSION PATTERNS - used for entrances and exits PEKING OPERA

26. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

27. a two-stringed bowed instrument JINGHU PEKING OPERA

28. a four-stringed plucked instrument YUEQIN PEKING OPERA

29. - a three-stringed plucked instrument SANXIAN

30. SUONA

31. CHINESE FLUTES

32. GONGS and CYMBALS

33. THANKS! Unit 4 – Theater and Festivals of Asia