Department of Education

Malaybalay City, Bukidnon

Bangcud National High School

DAILY LESSON PLAN

CHINESE PEKING OPERA GRADE 8

(Subject) (Grade Level)
RHEA MAE A. TAGA
(Prepared by) Date: May 20, 2022

DLP NUMBER: 1 LEARNING AREA: DURATION: 60 minutes

SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUSIC

QUARTER : Fourth CODE: MU8TH-IVb-h-3

LEARNING 1. Describes how a specific idea or a story is communicated through music in a

COMPETENCY/IES: particular Asian musical Theater.
2.

CONTENT The learners demonstrate an understanding of...

STANDARD: musical skills related to selected traditional Asian
theater

PERFORMANCE The learners shall be able to…

STANDARD: performs excerpts from traditional Asian theater with appropriate pitch, rhythm,
expression, and style

KEY CONCEPTS TO BE
DEVELOPED:
1.
OBJECTIVES:
KNOWLEDGE: 1. Describe different story or idea expressed in Chinese Peking Opera, and
2. Play the instrument tunes used to accompany the idea or story of Chinese Peking
Opera
SKILLS:  Music skills
ATTITUDE:  Cultural appreciation
VALUES: 
3. CONTENT:  CHINESE PEKING OPERA
4. LEARNING
RESOURCES:
A. REFERENCE
1. Curriculum
Guide
2. Learners Handouts
Materials
3. Additional
Materials from  None
Learning
Resource (LR)
Portal
B. OTHER https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/peking-opera-00418
LEARNING
RESOURCES
4.
PROCEDURE
S
Introductory Activities 1. Preliminary activity
(5 minutes)  Opening prayer
  Checking of Attendance
 Classroom Setting (Arranging of chairs and picking of papers)
Activity: What I Think
Annotation: The teacher will present/show to the class emojis depicting the
About This
(5 minutes) different human emotions and it is then followed by a question. This is used to assess
whether they could analyze and identify the appropriate emotion in the given
question.

“To begin with, I want you to describe your emotion through facial expressions;
1. happy
2. sad
3. frightened
4. excited
5. angry
6. In love
“Let me ask you a question.”
Q. – Is it possible to describe or express these feelings through music? Yes or no? defend
your answer.
The teacher will then ask some students to share their ideas/answers in the class.
Analysis: Annotation: The teacher will introduce the topic to the class through discussion with
(20 minutes)
the help of visual aids, or PowerPoint presentation; the learners will then be
expected to actively participate throughout the session. The importance of this
method
The is building
teacher will thenastart
foundation of knowledge about the topic.
the discussion.

Chinese Peking Opera

 Peking Opera – was considered as the highest form of arts in China wherein,
speech, singing, mime, and acrobats are performed to an instrumental
accompaniment.
The instruments are divided into two:
1. Wenchang (civil division) – which is mainly there to accompany singing
featuring the stringed instrument.
2. Wuchang (military division) whose music is to accompany acting, dancing,
and fighting featuring the percussion instrument.
Basically, music accompaniment is used to describe specific story or idea of the play. But
the music played by the Peking opera is not created by a composer.
It is based on sets of traditional calcified tunes with the singing two sets of tunes;
1. Xipi – is the tunes used to express an excited mood such as anger, happiness, and
agitation.
2. Erhuang – is the tunes used to express a subdued mood and deep thoughts such as
loss, sorrow, or melancholy.

 The stories of Peking Opera come from the history of China that includes tales
from dynasties, historical events, and stories about emperors, ministers and
beautiful women.

These are the 5 popular stories of the Chinese Peking Opera

 Farewell my concubine - The story is about Changyou who battled for the
unification of China against Yubang. In the play Changyou was surround by
Yubang’s forces and was about to be defeated. He calls for his force and pleads to
run away but his force refuses so he then calls his favorite concubine to fight with
him but begs to die with him realizing their situation.
 Drunken Beauty - The extraordinarily beautiful Young Yuan was the favorite
concubine who had arranged to meet emperor Ming. However, the emperor locks
her bell and instead went to another princess. The situation made her upset and
starts to drink alone and saddened
 The Heavenly Maid Scatters Blossoms – this play is also known as Stairy Maiden
Scatters flowers who was ordered by the Buddha to scatter blossoms in Demana
Cartei near Desasuru to test his faith. The heavenly maid scatters the blossoms in
front of him and proclaims the Buddha’s words before she returns to the west.
 Lady Wang Zhaojun Goes Beyond the Frontier – the story is about Wang
Zhaojun in the dysnasty who endowed with both beauty and intelligence who did
not pay bronze to the painter of the palace that is why his portrait was painted
badly. She was never visited by the emperor because of that until one day Wang
Zhaojun was playing sorrowed melodies on pipa a Chinese stringed instrument, to
display her lonely emotion. The music attracted thee emperor and her beauty were
revealed.
  Lady Mu Guiying Tales Command – this opera is generally built as (lady) Mu
Guiying takes command of the troops and watch the mass play of male and Fang.
When the lord of West Zha starts a rebellion the fifty-year-old female general Mui
Guiying takes command of the troops and puts aside her personal hurt despite the
family having been treated unfaithfully. Still, she returns to the battlefield with her
husband and her children.

 Q – Where you able to identify the mood or idea that the popular stories of the
Peking Opera expresses? How?

“Now, let’s try if we could identify the emotion or feeling of the Chinese Peking Opera
stories.”

Chinese Peking Opera Emotion/Feeling Specific Tunes

through Emoji (Xipi or Erhuang)
Farewell my Concubine
Drunken Beauty
The Heavenly Maid
Scatters Blossoms
Lady Wang Zhaojun Goes
Beyond the Frontier
Lady Mu Guiying Takes
Command

Abstraction: The teacher will deepen the understanding of the learners towards the topic through
(5 minutes) discussing it further.

Annotation: In this part of the lesson, the teacher will point out some key
information that have not been highlighted during the discussion, the teacher will
also entertain some questions or points that the learners have difficulty
understanding. This part of the lesson is crucial since the learners will be able to
extract the key information of the lesson.

GROUP ACTIVITY
Ask the students to find a pair (considering they have been informed prior to bring any
Application: instrument that they have) and let them perform in a limited amount of time (2 minutes each
(15 minutes) group, it will be assessed using a rubric.)

Annotation: The learners will demonstrate/perform their skills, this part also
showcases their creativity and assess their knowledge and understanding about the
lesson, grouping them (by pair) also allows them to develop interpersonal
relationship skills and teamwork. The activity will be assessed using a rubric.

RUBRIC

Content 25% Mastery 50% Rhythmic Total 100%

Accuracy 25%
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2.

Assessment Summary: Asking the students to summarize what they have learned about the topic in
(10 minutes) class.

Peking Opera was considered as the highest of arts in China performed to an

instrumental accompaniment where instruments are divided into Wenchang
instruments (civil division) and Wuchang (Military division)
Two sets of tunes that accompanies story or mood of Peking Opera Xipi tunes –
happiness, anger or agitation and Erhuang loss, sorrow or melancholy.
 Each of the stories or ideas can be expressed through music accompaniment to
understand it better.
Assignment Read in advance the next topic.
V. REMARKS
VI. REFLECTION
A. No. of learners
who earned 80%
on the formative
assessment
B. No of learners
who require
additional activities
or remediation.
C. Did the remedial
lesson work?
D. No. of learners
who continue to
require
remediation.
E. Which of my
teaching strategies
worked well?
Why did these
work?
F. What difficulties
did I encounter
which my principal
or supervisor can
help me solve?
G. What innovation
or localized
materials did I use\
discover which I
wish to share with
other teachers?

Prepared by:
RHEA MAE A. TAGA
MAPEH Teacher

Attested by:
AMADIA N. BALISADO
Monitoring Head

Noted by:
PAUL O. ORONG
School Principal
 RUBRIC FOR DIFFERENTIATED ACTIVTIES

Content 25% Mastery 50% Rhythmic Accuracy 25% Total 100%

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RHEA MAE A. TAGA

MAPEH Teacher