Name: ___________________________ Score: _____________

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Music Activities
1st Quarter – Southeast Asian Music
S.Y. 2021-2022
1. CAMBODIA
Activity 1: Getting to know Cambodia
Direction: Explore yourself and be familiar to the country of Cambodia statement and
learn something about their music, tradition, and culture. Identify the statement and write your
answer below.

1. What country known as Kampuchea and the most beautiful countries in Southeast
Asia?
2. Which country in Southeast Asia dominated by the great empire for 600 years?
3. How Cambodian court music with a large orchestra feature chorus?
4. How many instruments pinpeat have?
5. What kind of musical ensemble or orchestra that usually accompanies ceremonial
music of the royal courts and temples.
6. What instrument in pinpeat categorized as idiophone and describe as xylophones?
7. Which of the musical instrument in pinpeat consists of gong circles?
8. It is a finger cymbal categorized as idiophone in pinpeat.
9. Name the instrument in pinpeat with a double headed drum played with hands.
10. Can you distinguish the instrument in pinpeat with two big drums similar to Japanese?

2. INDONESIA
Activity 1: Loop a Word
Look for words that answer each phrase/statement from the puzzle and encircle it. Also
write your answer below the question.
1. Which country in the Southeast Asia is the world’s fourth most populous and biggest
nation of the world?
Answer: ___________________
2 – 3. Name the two basic kinds of Indonesian music scale.
Answer: ______________ and _________________
3. What is the Indonesian term for Tempo?
Answer: ________________
4. Describe the most popular form of music in Indonesia.
Answer: ________________
5. Who was the female soloist singer who sings with a gamelan?
Answer: _________________
6. Can you name the unison male chorus that sings with the gamelan?
Answer: _______________
7. What is the term for every kind of gamelan music in Java?
Answer: ________________
9 – 10 Name the most famous gamelan in Indonesia.
Answer: _____________ and _______________

I N D O N E S I A
S J I G E P H B G
L A R A W E A A E
E V A M L L R L R
N A M E I O E I O
D N A L F Q I N N
R E Y A E G T E G
O S A N S O A S U
P E S I N D H E N
K A R A W I T A N
3. MYANMAR
Activity 1: Getting to know Myanmar
Direction: On a sheet of paper. Answer the following question and be able to
understand the history, culture, tradition and recognize the different musical instrument of
Myanmar and Malaysia.
1. What is the official name of Myanmar before 1989?
Answer: ____________
2. When was the officially took over of Myanmar’ new name?
Answer: ____________
3 - 4. What are the two types of musical instrument of Myanmar?
Answer: ____________ and _____________
3. Enumerate the different Hsaing Waing Instrument.
Answer: 1. _________________
2. _________________
3. _________________
4. _________________
5. _________________
4. Name the national instrument of Myanmar.
Answer: ___________________

4. MALAYSIA
Activity 1: Know Me Well
Direction: On a sheet of paper. Match Column A with Column B
Column A Column B

1. A constitutional monarchy a. Islam

2. Known as Peninsula Malaysia b. Agung and Kulintang
3. Consists of 13 states and 3 federal territories c. Classical and folk music
4. Emerged during pre-colonial period d. West Malaysia
5. Developed during the post Portuguese period e. Syncretic or accurate music
6. Gong – based musical ensemble used in funerals f. Malaysia
and weddings g. Malaysian music
7. A type of musical form that is important to h. Silat Melayu
Malaysia’s National culture. i. Dikir Barat
8. A form of martial art that similar to t’ai chi. J. Kertok
9. A musical ensemble that consists of xylophones i. East Malaysia
10. State religion while protecting freedom of religion

5. THAILAND
 Activity 1: Comprehension checks…
Direction: Fill up the missing letters to complete the correct answer.
1. What country is the sole nation in Southeast Asia that has never ruled by a Western
power and recognized as Siam.
Answer :
2. This ensemble is traditionally played by women in the courts of Central Thailand and
Cambodia.
Answer:
3. Describe as a mid-sized orchestra that is performed in either outdoor style with hard
mallets or indoor style with padded mallets.
Answer:
4. What term describes as land of the free?
Answer:
5. Where does the musical principles and elements of Thailand music derived?
Answer:
6. Which type of orchestra combines some of the percussion and wind instruments of the
piphat with an expanded string section?
Answer:
7. Which music consists of simple songs with simple melodic lines?
Answer:
8. Formerly Thailand was recognized in what name?
Answer:
9 -10 Can you name musical instruments from Indian and Indonesian that inspired to Thai
musical instruments.

6. LAOS
Activity 1: Rumbled letters …
Direction: Arrange the letters to form the correct answer.
1. What state of Southeast Asia officially known as Lao People’s Democratic Republic?
Answer:
2. What is the famous landmarks in Laos?
Answer:
3-4 Which countries highly influenced the classic music and dance of Laos?
Answer: 1.
2.
5-7Classic music of Laos drawn from what themes?
Answer: 1.
2.
3.
8. It is formerly part of the Indochinese Union known as French Indochina.
Answer:
9. This is known as the Mahori of Thailand . It incorporates the use of several Khene which is
a large bamboo mouth organ and is the most popular folk music instruments of Laos.
Answer:
10. This is similar to the piphat of Thailand with instruments that are strictly percussively but
also integrates the use of an oboe.
Answer:

7. VIETNAM
Activity 1: Knowledge and Comprehension
Direction: Matching type. Choice the best answer and encircle.
1. What country known as the socialist Republic?
a. Taiwan b. Thailand c. Turkey d. Vietnam
2. Which of the following refers to the ethnic music that originated from the “Kinh” people of
Vietnam.
a. Nhac Viet Nam b. Dai nhac c. Tieu nhac d. Nhac
nhac
3. Vietnam is geographically part of Southeast Asia, ten centuries of rule by what country?
a. Indonesia b. Malaysia c. Chinese d. Javanese
4. Vietnamese music shows sign of influence of a country that a usage of onomatopoeia in
drum playing is used, what country influence Vietnamese music?
 a. India b. Chinese c. Malaysia d. Singapore
5. This form of classical music is also performed in honor of the Gods and scholars in
temples.
a. Imperial Court Music b. Folk Music c. Religious and Ceremonial Music d.
All of the above
6. This is the music performed in religious rituals or funerals.
a. Imperial Court Music b. Folk Music c. Religious and Ceremonial Music d.
All of the above
7. It may be performed in musical theaters, streets, courtship rituals and ceremonies.
a. Imperial Court Music b. Folk Music c. Religious and Ceremonial Music d.
All of the above
8. It is located on the eastern coast of the Indochinese Peninsula.
a. Vietnam b. Thailand c. Singapore d. Laos

8. SINGAPORE
Activity 1: Knowledge comprehension
Direction: Identify and enumerate the following statement.

1. This country is an independent republic in Southeast Asia.

Answer:
2. Singapore’s cultural life reflects its colonization by what country?
Answer:
3. Which colonization reflects the cultural life of the Singapore and diverse its population?
Answer:
4. How many islands comprise to Singapore?
Answer:
5 – 7 What ethnic groups which made a prominent place in the musical world of Singapore?
5.
6.
7.
8 - 10 What Minority Asian ethnic groups made a mark in the folk culture of Singapore?
8.
9.
10.