Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the
Gibberish?!
Identify a particular word in a gibberish phrase.
For Example: ONE YOUNG = WAYANG
COOL LIT KULIT
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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Gym Chew lane pooh
It is the distinct make-up faces of
Peking Opera actors and actresses
show their outstanding roles in the
play.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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Shy niece tea there
It is also known as the Beijing
Opera that still follows traditional
arts in stressing meaning, rather
than precise actions.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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They’re bang!
These are used to convey a low-key
mood and deep thought, such as
sadness, grief, or melancholy.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Bee Queen Ohm Pea Rah
It is a stylized Chinese form of
performing art dating from the late
18th century, in which speech, singing,
mime, and acrobatics are performed to
an instrumental accompaniment.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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Though Man Then
It is a subtype character of Dan
refers to young female warriors.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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Axe Crew Vat Ticks
It is the specialized and ancient art
of jumping, tumbling, and
balancing.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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Pale Low End Shout Low
These are gongs that signify
the beginning of the
performance.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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Show Lawn Win
It is an example of Qupai meaning
the Chant of the Water Dragon,
which generally denotes the arrival
of an important person.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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Arrow Wee Yeah
It is a solo accompaniment
portraying a character.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
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Who Chin
It is a two-stringed violin-like
instrument that is held upright
against the knee.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the
Gibberish?!
LET’S CHECK!
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Jingju
Gym Lianpu
Chew lane pooh
It is the distinct make-up faces of
Peking Opera actors and actresses
show their outstanding roles in the
play.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Chinese
Shy Theater
niece tea there
It is also known as the Beijing
Opera that still follows traditional
arts in stressing meaning, rather
than precise actions.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Erhuang
They’re bang!
These are used to convey a low-key
mood and deep thought, such as
sadness, grief, or melancholy.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Peking
Bee QueenOpera
Ohm Pea Rah
It is a stylized Chinese form of
performing art dating from the late
18th century, in which speech, singing,
mime, and acrobatics are performed to
an instrumental accompaniment.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Daomadan
Though Man Then
It is a subtype character of Dan
refers to young female warriors.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Acrobatics
Axe Crew Vat Ticks
It is the specialized and ancient art
of jumping, tumbling, and
balancing.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
TaloLow
Pale andEnd
Siao-Lo
Shout Low
These are gongs that signify
the beginning of the
performance.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Shui Lawn
Show LongWin
Yin
It is an example of Qupai meaning
the Chant of the Water Dragon,
which generally denotes the arrival
of an important person.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Aria Wee Yeah
Arrow
It is a solo accompaniment
portraying a character.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the Gibberish?!
Hu-Ch’in
Who Chin
It is a two-stringed violin-like
instrument that is held upright
against the knee.
Learning Task #1: Review of the Lesson
Guess the
Gibberish?!
Very good, You did great!
Learning Task #2:
Compare and
Contrast!!
Write what you have learned and your observation in
two sentences ABOUT the similarities and differences
of wayang kulit, peking Opera, and TO THE VIDEO
PRESENTED TO YOU BASED ON THEIR
PERFORMANCES, Musical Elements, and style.
Learning Task #2:
Compare and Contrast!!
Traditional
Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER – KABUKI
MELC-BASED:
Learning Objectives
1. Identify musical characteristics of selected Asian
musical theater through video films or live
performances (MU8TH-IVa-g-1);
2. Describe the instruments that accompany Kabuki,
Wayang Kulit, and Peking Opera (MU8TH-lVa-g-
2);
MELC-BASED:
Learning Objectives
3. Describe how a specific idea or story is
communicated through music in a particular Asian
Musical Theater; (MU8THIVb-h-3);
4. Improvise appropriate sound, music, gesture,
movements, props, and costume for performance of a
chosen Asian traditional musical and theatrical form
(MU8TH-IVb-h-7);
MELC-BASED:
Learning Objectives
5. Perform selection/s from chosen Asian musical theater;
(MU8TH-IVa-g-6) and
6. Evaluate music and music performances using guided
rubrics applying knowledge of musical elements and
style. (MU8TH-lVc-h-8).
Traditional
Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER – KABUKI
Kabuki Theater
It is the traditional form of
theater that began at the end of
the 16th century.
It became the most successful
theater entertainment in the
red-light districts of the great
cities in Japan.
Kabuki Theater
In modern Japanese, the word Kabuki is
written in three letters and each letter
describes the elements incorporated in this
theater art.
1. Ka 歌 means to sing.
2. Bu 舞 means to dance.
3. Ki 伎 means to act.
Kabuki is derived from the Japanese verb
Kabuku meaning out of the
ordinary or bizarre.
Kabuki Theater
It is a form of traditional Japanese
drama with highly stylized song, mime,
and dance.
Nowadays, it is only performed by
male actors.
The themes in Kabuki performances
are feuds, revenge, adventure, and
romance.
Kabuki Theater
Kabuki was the first dramatic entertainment
that was designed for the tastes of the common
people in Japan.
It is dated at least 400 years when a female
dancer, “Izumo No Okuni”, performed
comedic imitations of Buddhist prayers in an
empty riverbed.
She entertained the people with her singing,
dancing, and acting.
Kabuki Theater
Both Noh 能 and Kabuki かぶき
are unique and genuine expressions of
the Japanese spirit and culture.
However, they mirror tastes and ideals
of different social classes, in
profoundly different environments
and periods.
Music of Kabuki Theater:
Vocal Patterns and Techniques
1. Ipponchōshi
It means continuous pattern.
It is used in speeches building up to an
explosive climax in the aragoto
(oversized, supernatural, rough hero)
style.
It requires extraordinary breath control
that only a few experts succeed in
achieving.
Music of Kabuki Theater:
Vocal Patterns and Techniques
2. Nori
It is adapted from the chanting or jōruri (a
traditional Japanese narrative music in which
a tayū 太夫 sings to the accompaniment of a
shamisen).
It implies a very sensitive capacity of riding the
rhythms of the shamisen (string instrument),
declaiming each accompaniment.
Music of Kabuki Theater:
Vocal Patterns and Techniques
3. Yakuharai
It is the subtle delivery of
poetical text written in the
Japanese metrical form of
alternating seven and five
syllables.
Music of Kabuki Theater:
Instrumental Accompaniment
Hayashi is a group of performers who provide
musical accompaniment for another theater in
Japan called the Noh.
In Kabuki, several Shamisen players are added
to the Hayashi along with, depending on the play,
traditional percussion instruments such as taiko,
wind instruments, and others including those
that are used for sound effects.
Music of Kabuki Theater:
Instrumental Accompaniment
Although Hayashi in a Noh
performance is located on the stage,
most Kabuki Hayashi is located in a
small room just off-stage and is not
visible to the audience but a barred
window in the walls of the stage set
indicates its location.
Three Broad Categories of Musical
Accompaniment in Kabuki Theater
1. Geza-ongaku
It means Off-Stage Music.
It is located offstage behind a
curtain.
It is assigned to play background
music and sound effects.
Three Broad Categories of Musical
Accompaniment in Kabuki Theater
1. Geza-ongaku
It may also set the mood with a
connotative popular tune.
However, it usually uses little to
no vocals and is generally more
percussion-related.
Three Broad Categories of Musical
Accompaniment in Kabuki Theater
2. Shosa-ongaku
It means On-Stage Music.
It is located onstage by the Shamisen
and Hayashi ensemble, visibly
accompanying the acting and dancing.
This music accompanies actors as they
describe scenic settings.
Three Broad Categories of Musical
Accompaniment in Kabuki Theater
2. Shosa-ongaku
The actors synchronize their
lines with the rhythm of the
music.
This music also accompanies the
dances and scenic music.
Three Broad Categories of Musical
Accompaniment in Kabuki Theater
3. Ki and Tsuke
These are “signaling” accents
complementing the action of the
performers and the transition
from one scene to the other.
Musical Instruments in Kabuki Theater
1. Shamisen
It is also known as sangen or
samisen meaning three strings.
It is a three-stringed traditional
Japanese musical instrument derived
from the Chinese instrument
sanxian.
It is played with a plectrum called
bachi.
Musical Instruments in Kabuki Theater
2. Tsuzumi
It is any of a family of Japanese two-
headed drums with hourglass-
shaped bodies.
The two most commonly used
tsuzumi are the ko-tsuzumi and the
ō-tsuzumi, found in the music of Noh
and Kabuki theatres.
Musical Instruments in Kabuki Theater
3. Ō-daiko
It means large drum and for a given
ensemble, the term refers to their
largest drum.
The other type of byō-uchi-daiko is
called a hira-daiko (flat drum) and can
be any drum constructed such that the
head diameter is greater than the length
of the body.
Musical Instruments in Kabuki Theater
4. Koto
It is also called kin, a long
Japanese board zither having
13 silk strings and movable
bridges.
It is the national instrument of
Japan.
It is derived from the Chinese
zheng and se.
Musical Instruments in Kabuki Theater
5. Shakuhachi
It is a Japanese and ancient Chinese
longitudinal, end-blown flute that is
made of bamboo.
The bamboo end-blown flute now
known as the shakuhachi was
developed in Japan in the 16th century
and is called the fuke shakuhachi.
Musical Instruments in Kabuki Theater
6. Biwa
It is a Japanese short-necked wooden lute
traditionally used in narrative storytelling.
The biwa is a plucked string instrument that
first gained popularity in China before
spreading throughout East Asia, eventually
reaching Japan sometime during the Nara
period (710–794).
Musical Instruments in Kabuki Theater
7. Kokyū
It is a traditional Japanese string instrument, the
only one played with a bow.
A variant of the instrument also exists in Okinawa,
called kūchō ( 胡弓 ) in Okinawan.
The kokyū, like the shamisen, has its origins in
Okinawa. Although it is similar to Chinese huqin, it
actually came to Okinawa via the rebab from
Indonesia and Malaysia.
Theatrical Performance
Practice In Kabuki
One of the onstage segments of
Kabuki is called Debayashi.
Debayashi is divided into two songs
(nagauta and joruri) or a chant
with highly dramatic recitation
with the accompaniment of
shamisen.
Theatrical Performance
Practice In Kabuki
In this performance, the most
popular shamisen music was called
Nagauta (long song).
One of the performance music in
Nagauta could be the song Sakura,
which is also widely performed in
Kabuki.
Traditional
Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER – KABUKI
Learning Task #3:
Arrange Me!
Classify the musical elements and style used in Wayang Kulit, Peking Opera,
and Kabuki found inside the box. Write them in their corresponding column.
xIPI PERCUS HAYAS SHAM FAN-PAN DALANG NOH
SIVE HI ISEN
PATTER
N
IPPONC SONA SARO JING PATHET GEZA- ACROBA
HOSI
Wayang kulit N Peking operaNEM ONGAKU
kabuki TICS
KAYANO CEMPA REBA SAKU SHOSA- CHANGBA PIPA
N LA B RA ONGAKU I
Learning Task #3: Arrange Me!
xIPI PERCUS HAYAS SHAM FAN-PAN DALANG NOH
SIVE HI ISEN
PATTER
N
IPPONC SONA SARO jang PATHET GEZA- ACROBA
HOSI
Wayang kulit N Peking operaNEM ONGAKU kabuki TICS
KAYANOkayanon
CEMPA REBA SAKUxipi SHOSA- CHANGBA
ipponchosi PIPA
N LA B RA ONGAKU I
saron Percussive pattern hayashi
rebab sona shamisen
Pathet nem Fan-pan sakura
dalang changbai Shosa-ongaku
cempala acrobatics Geza-ongaku
pipa noh
Traditional
Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER – PEKING OPERA
Roles in Kabuki Theater
One of the distinct element of
Kabuki performances is their
make up called Kesho.
It is already in itself an
interpretation of the actor’s own
role through the medium of the
facial features.
Roles in Kabuki Theater
1. Aragoto (Rough Style)
It is a style of kabuki acting that uses
exaggerated, dynamic kata or
movement, and speech.
Aragoto roles are characterized by the
bold red or blue makeup worn by
actors, as well as their enlarged and
padded costumes.
Roles in Kabuki Theater
2. Wagoto (Soft Style)
It is a style of kabuki acting that
emphasizes realistic speech and
gestures.
Wagoto actors typically do not
employ the exaggerated makeup
and costuming common to the more
exaggerated aragoto style.
Traditional
Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER – KABUKI
Learning Task #4: Assignment
Watch and Analyze!
You will watch a video clip about Kabuki but focus your attention to the background vocal
and instrumental music. Write your observations and reactions regarding the following
elements of music listed on the table below.
Kabuki on Stage: A Solo Performance at Portland Japanese Garden
Tempo
Melody
timbre
DYNAMIC
S
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Asian
Theater
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