ASIAN MUSICAL THEATER

It is a Japanese traditional theater art that is performed in a stylized manner that combines acting, singing, and dancing.

It is a well-known Indonesian theater popular not only in their own country but spread in several countries around the world.

It is also known as the Beijing 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.

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.

He is characterized by his being creative, humorous, and flexible. He manipulates the puppets, sings, and taps out signals to the orchestra.

These styles are very similar and the only difference is the key.

It is an Indonesian and Malay word for “theater”

One of the popular traditional songs in Japan that produce distinct characteristics used in the Asian style of making melodies also known as the pentatonic

scale.

Technique adapted from chanting or jōruri. It implies a very sensitive capacity of riding the rhythms of the shamisen (string instrument), declaiming each

accompaniment.

Means skin and refers to the leather construction of the puppet that is carefully cut into a very fine tool and supported by carefully shaped buffalo horn handles and control rod.