T1_C4_Southeast and East Asian Instrumental Music

​Southeast Asian Instrumental Music

​Learning Targets

​1. I can recall the different Asian traditional songs and their country of origin.
2. I can classify traditional musical instruments into idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, and aerophones.
3. I can give the meaning, background, and function of Asian Traditional Music.
4. I can tell which country the musical instrument or performing group originated from.
5. I can identify 2 - 3 common musical and unique characteristics of traditional music.
6. I can improvise musical instruments that simulate Asian traditional musical instruments.
7. I can perform Asian traditional music using improvised musical instruments.

How does the style of music reflect their culture and how is it relevant in today’s modern world?

​INDONESIA

​GAMELAN ORCHESTRA

​Balinese Orchestra

Javanese Orchestra​

​Javanese Orchestra

​Balinese Orchestra

​'Gamel' means hammer

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​A Gamelan orchestra consists mostly of gongs, metallophones, xylophones and drums.

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Gamelan music ​is used to accompany performances such as dance and shadow puppet plays.

​The Pinpeat

​The Pinpeat

1. Accompanies ceremonial music ​of the royal courts and temples of Cambodia since ancient times

2. ​consists of approximately nine or ten instruments mainly wind and percussion

3. It accompanies court dances, masked plays, shadow plays, and religious ceremonies

​The Piphat

​The Piphat

1. It is a mid-sized orchestra that is performed in either outdoor style with hard mallets or indoor style with padded mallets.

2. This ensemble has different types but the highly ornate one is traditionally associated with funerals and cremation ceremonies.

3. Plays ​in religious ceremonies, khon dance dramas, and puppet theater, and that features gong chimes, xylophones, and drums.

​Saung Gauk

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1. ​The top of the body is covered with animal hide pierced in four places

2. The national musical instrument of Myanmar (Burma)

3. ​Continously being played since 8th century predominantly in the chamber music of the royal court.

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​1. It is made up mainly of different gongs and drums as well as other instruments depending on the nature of the performance.
2. Musical instruments are categorized into 2 types: loud-sounding and soft-sounding. The loud-sounding instruments are performed in open-air ensembles at ceremonies and festivals. Most of the Hsaing Waing instruments belong to the loud-sounding category.

​HSAING WAING

Open Ended

Give one thing that these musical groups and instruments have in common.