Reviewer for Music 4th Qtr

All of the following are examples of musical theaters EXCEPT:

• Kabuki 

• Loy Krathong

• Peking Opera

• Wayang Kulit

Answer explanation

Loy Krathong

Known as the country's Festival of Lights, Loy Krathong is a charming festival where people gather around bodies of water in the evening to pay their respects to the water goddess.

Naugata is considered the most popular shamisen music. According to Hornbostel and Sach classification, Shamisen is classified as:

• Aerophone

• Chordophone

• IMembranophone

• None of the above

Answer explanation

Chordophones are instruments that produce sound by vibrating strings. The Hornbostel-Sachs classification system breaks chordphones down further into simple and composite chordophones.

Which of the following instrument is not used in Nagauta?

• Fue     

• Koto   

• Kotsuzumi

• Taiko

Answer explanation

Nagauta (songs in time with shamisen music)It originated as musical accompaniment to Kabuki dance. The performers play a major role in expressing the sounds of Kabuki, as the singers and shamisen players are responsible for much of the geza.

All of the following are skills presented during the Peking Opera EXCEPTS:

                 

 

• Acrobatics

• Dance    

• Magic  

• Mime

Answer explanation

Peking Opera basic skills include dance movements and special acrobatic movements while singing or reciting, a necessary requirements mastered by all actors and actresses. Lingze skills involve the manipulation of the two long pheasant tail feathers worn on wanions' helmets, such as shaking and swinging.

A gamelan ensemble mainly comprises bronze percussion instruments augmented by other percussion instruments. Which of the following instruments predominantly occupied the gamelan ensemble?

             I. Drums                      II. Flutes                      III. Gongs              IV. Bowl

• A. II

• B. I and II       

• C. I, II, and III

• D. I, III, and IV

Answer explanation

The main instrument in gamelan is the metallophone, a metal keyboard-like instrument that is played with mallets. In addition to metallophones, gamelan can include drums, lute, bamboo flute and vocalists.

Which of the following is not a function of DALANG?

• Directs the play. 

• Speaks the lines.

• Manipulates the puppet  

• Plays the instruments.

Answer explanation

The dalang presides over the shadow play as its sole controlling performer who tells the story, and interprets characters and dialogue using a variety of voices. He manipulates all the puppets between a lamp and the screen to bring the puppet shadows to life.

If Wayang means Theater , then Kulit means .

• Skin 

• Bone  

• Muscle

• Teeth

The following are categories of melodies played in the Peking opera EXCEPT:       

• Aria   

• Percussion pattern

• Qupai   

• Sheng

Answer explanation

The sheng is a role type in Chinese opera for dignified and respectable male characters such as Confucian scholars, nobles, or heads of households. They may be portrayed by either male actors or actresses.

In Kabuki, Bu means Dance while ka means ​ (a)      .

    

• song

• act

• play 

• perform

Answer explanation

The term kabuki originally suggested the unorthodox and shocking character of this art form. In modern Japanese, the word is written with three characters: ka, signifying “song”; bu, “dance”; and ki, “skill.”

The Peking Opera has two main styles of music, namely: erh-huang and ​​ (a)   ​ .

                     

• His-p’l

• Fan-pan    

• Siag-lo   

• Ta-lo

Answer explanation

The HIS-P'L has lower sound than the ERH-HUANG.