MOST ESSENTIAL

LEARNING
COMPETENCIES
• Identifies musical characteristics of selected
Asian musical theater through video films or
live performances;
• Describes the instruments that accompany
Kabuki, Wayang Kulit, Peking Opera;
• Describes how a specific idea or story
is communicated through music in a
particular Asian musical theater;
 Objectives:
Identify the varied art forms used in Asian
musical theater to communicate tales of
everyday social and cultural relevance and
interests.
 Objectives:
Analyze how elements of sound gesture
movement and costume affect the creation
and communication of meaning in an Asian
musical and popular theater.
 Objectives:
Evaluate the performance of each
group with regards to cultural
relevance, music performance and
movement.
 ACTIVITY:
“GUESS THE COUNTRY”
JAPAN
JAPAN

CHINA

INDONESIA

TAIKO
CHINA
JAPAN

CHINA

INDONESIA

ZHENG
TAIKO
CHINA
JAPAN

CHINA

INDONESIA

YUNLUO
INDONESIA
JAPAN

CHINA

INDONESIA

KEMPUL
 JAPAN
JAPAN

CHINA

INDONESIA

SHAMISEN
Did you ever experienced
watching a stage play or theater
play?
Japanese Theater
Japan is rich in culture and tradition.

Ikebana Sakura

Noh Kabuki
 JAPANESE THEATER
• One of the traditions that is very
popular until today.

• The traditional form of theater which

began at the end of the 16th century.
 JAPANESE THEATER

• It is considered as the most important

Japanese contribution to the World of
Theater.
  
NOH AND KABUKI
• are considered as the most important
Japanese contribution to the World of
Theater.

• Also, they are unique and genuine

expressions of the Japanese spirit and
culture.
SAKURA
 SAKURA
- It is a traditional song that produces distinct
characteristics used in the Asian style of
making melodies also known as pentatonic
scale.
 Pentatonic Scale
• The pattern is mainly developed by using
the pentatonic style adopted mainly from
China

• This style is mostly used in the performance

of noh and kabuki.
 Ipponchōshi
• It is also called the continuous pattern.

• It is used in speeches building up to an

explosive climax in the aragoto style.
 Ipponchōshi
• Requires an extraordinary breath
control that only few experts succeed
in achieving.
 Nori
• Implies a very sensitive capacity of
riding the rhythms of the shamisen,
declaiming each accompaniment.
 Yakuharai
• The subtle delivery of poetical text
written in the Japanese metrical form
of alternating seven and five
syllables.
 Japanese Shamisen Music

• Gagaku- classic court music imported

from China during the 18th century

• Kagura- performed in Shinto shrines

 Vocal and Instrumental Features

• Nō- chant derives from Shomyo the

sophisticated and rich tradition of
Buddhist chanting
 Vocal and Instrumental Features

• Nagauta- a love 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.
Kabuki
 Kabuki
• Is a traditional Japanese popular drama
with singing and dancing performed
in a highly stylized manner.
 Kabuki
• It has a blend of music, dance, mime
and spectacular staging and
costuming.
• It has been a major theatrical form in
Japan for 4 centuries.
Kabuki
Chinese theater traditionally was
considered as the highest form of
arts in China.
 Peking Opera
• Is also known as the Beijing
Opera

• Still follows traditional Chinese

arts in stressing meaning, rather
than precise action.
 Peking Opera
• It is a stylized Chinese form of
opera dating from the late 18th
century, in which speech, singing,
mime, and acrobatics are performed
to an instrumental accompaniment.
 Peking Opera
• It became fully developed and
recognized by the mid-19th century
• It was regarded as one of the
cultural treasures of China and was
extremely popular in the Qing
Dynasty court.
 Peking Opera
• The opera artist’s goal is to make
every performance exceptionally
beautiful in every moment they
will make.
Two main styles of music

•Erh-Huang
•His-p’l
• His-p’l has lower sound than erh-
huang.
• They also utilize the technique called
“fan-pan” which is commonly used
for sorrowful songs and is only sung
by bearded characters.
Peking Opera Orchestra
• It comprises about eight
musicians sitting on stools in the
far corner of the stage
• The conductor usually sits in the
center of the orchestra and
creates a tempo with this drum.
Peking Opera: Vocal
• Even spoken passages are governed by
strict rhythms and tempos.
• Chanted and sung passages are freely
inserted into spoken monologues or
dialogues.
Peking Opera: Vocal
• Most music used in Peking
Opera has been worked out
collaboratively between actors
and musicians
 Peking Opera: Vocal
• The actor’s delivery of lines is
rigidly controlled by
conventions.
 Peking Opera: Vocal
• Each role has its prescribed vocal
timbre and pitch, and syllables are
often drawn out with regards to
conversational usage in order to
maintain the appropriate rhythm.
PEKING
OPERA
 Peking Opera
• The form used in Peking opera is a
collection of many older forms but the
new form also introduced its own
innovation.
 Peking Opera
• The vocal requirements for all of the
major roles were greatly reduced for
Peking opera.
 Peking Opera
• The popularity of Peking Opera has
been attributed to the simplicity of the
form, with only a few voices and
singing pattern.
 Peking Opera
• The highest aim of performers is to put
beauty into every motion.
PERFORMERS
Shadow Puppet Theater is a well-
known Indonesian theater popular not
only in their own country but spread in
several countries around the world.
 Wayang Kulit
• Is one of the oldest continuous
traditions of storytelling in the world
which includes the use of puppet
materials and background musical
accompaniment to make it interesting
to the audience.
 Wayang Kulit
• Wayang is an Indonesian and Malay
word for “ theater”
• Kulit means “skin” and refers to the
puppet that are carefully cut into a very
fine tools and supported with carefully
shaped buffalo horn handles and
control rods.
 The performance
• The audience is the most important
person in a Wayang Kulit performance.
• The “Dalang” prepares all the materials
used like the cloth and the light for the
shadow.
 The performance
• The puppet on the right side signifies
the good character, on the left hand
side the bad character.
• The open space between them, about 2
meters wide, represents the stage.
 Dalang
• Is the puppeteer
• He is characterized by his being
creative, humorous, and flexible
• Manipulates the puppets, sings, and taps
out signals to the orchestra
• Speaks the parts of all the characters
 Dalang
• The use of voice interchangeably is the
main ability of a dalang to give more
life to a different character.
 Dalang
• The dalang sings the mood
songs(suluk) at regular intervals during
performance.
 Wayang Kulit
Wayang kulit was performed in royal
court and widely performed in public on
religious occasions.
 Let’s have an activity:

Write the letter of the correct answer

in your notebook.
1. It is subtle delivery of poetical text
written in the Japanese metrical form of
alternating seven and five syllables.
A. Yakuharai
B. Nori
C. Ipponchoshi
D. Gagaku
2. It is a traditional Japanese popular drama
with singing and dancing performed in a
highly stylized manner.

A. Peking Opera
B. Wayang Kulit
C. Kabuki
D. Naugata
3. It is one of the oldest continuous traditions
of storytelling in the world which includes the
use of puppet materials and background
musical accompaniment to make it interesting
to the audience.

A. Peking Opera
B. Wayang Kulit
C. Kabuki
D. Gagaku
4. The one who manipulates the
puppets, sings, and taps out signals
to the orchestra.
A. Yakuharai
B. Nori
C. Ipponchoshi
D. Dalang
5. It is a technique wherein commonly
used for sorrowful songs and is only
sung by bearded characters.
A.Fan-pan
B. Erh-huang
C. Yakuharai
D. Nori
Now, let’s check your answers:

1. A. Yakuharai
2. C. Kabuki
3. B. Wayang Kulit
4. D. Dalang
5. A. Fan-pan
“Music gives a soul to the
universe, wings to the
mind, flight to the
imagination and life to
everything”
THANK YOU
AND
GODBLESS