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MUSIC
Quarter 4, Wk. 2 - Module 2
Musical Theater and Festivals of Asia

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MAPEH – Music Grade 8
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Quarter 4 - Module 3: Musical Theater and Festivals of Asia
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MAPEH-MUSIC
Fourth Quarter – Module 2:
Musical Theater and Festival of Asia

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 Musical Theater and Festival of Asia

I. What I Need toKnow:

In this unit, you will learn about the musical characteristics of selected musical
theater in Asian countries specially Japan, China and Indonesia. Through this you
will discover how musical theater and festival contributed to the development of
their countries. Theater arts are one of the ancient traditions of the people in Asia
particularly in Japan, China, and Indonesia. Theater art form was transmitted
throughgenerations.
Traditional Asian Theater art will provide a uniqueexperience how traditional
theater music is performed. The message in every presentation conveys reflection of
everyday life. The key principle oftheater is selectivity. Through the various forms
of theater art, a specific form can achieve clarity, order, and beauty rarely found in
ordinarylife.

COMPETENCY:
❒ Describes the instruments that accompany Kabuki, WayangKulit, Peking
Opera;(MU8TH-IVa-g-2)

After going through this module, you are expected to:

• identify the instruments that accompany Kabuki, WayangKulit, Peking Opera;

• describe the instruments that accompany Kabuki, WayangKulit, Peking Opera;
and
• appreciate the message conveyed in the musical instruments that accompanied the
musical theater and festival ofAsia

II. What IKnow

Directions: Check the pictures below. Identify and name each instrument and its country
of origin.Write the answer on the blank provided below the pictures.
1. 2.

3. (

Ex: KudyapiPhilippines

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 III. Lesson Proper
A. What’sIn

CLASSIFY ME!
Directions: Classify the musical instruments below. Identify if they belong to wind
instruments, string instruments, percussion instruments.

INSTRUMENTS CLASSIFICATION

1.

2.

4.

5.

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 B. What’sNew

KABUKI (JAPAN)
Kabukiis a traditional Japanese popular drama with singing and dancing performed in
a stylized manner, a rich blend of music dance, mime, and spectacular staging and
costuming. It has been a major theatrical form in Japan for four centuries. It originally
suggested the unorthodox and shocking character of this art form. The term Kabuki in
modern Japanese means: ka, “song”; bu, “dance”; and ki, “skill.” It is a highly play that
actors show their wide range of skills in visual and vocal performance.

Vocal and Instrumental Features

Dances and movements are accompanied by shamisen music which collected and
popularized a number of aspects from all previous forms of Japanese music, from gagaku
(classic court music imported from China during the 18th century), kagura (performed in
Shinto shrines), nō (chant derives from shōmyō, the sophisticated and rich tradition of
Buddhist chanting), down to the folk and
fashionablesongoftheday.Themostpopularshamisenmusicwascallednagauta (long song)
which reached a golden age in the first half of the 19th century as dance music for the henge
mono or quick-changepieces.
Naugatamusic is very flexible, can be performed by one shamisen or by the entire
orchestra of twenty musicians , of which ten are shamisen players, while other play flutes
(fue taken from the nō) and drums (small drum-kotsuzumi; waist drum-ōtsuzumi; stick
drum-taiko)
Kotsuzumi–
Shamisen- 3 Small -shoulder
stringed drum
instruments

Taiko – Stick Drum

PEKING OPERA (CHINA)

Peking opera is the most dominant form of Chinese opera which combines music, vocal,
performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It is also known as the Beijing opera that follows
traditional Chinese arts
instressingmeaning,ratherthanpreciseactions.Theoperaartists’goalistomake every
performance exceptionally beautiful in every movement they will make. The performer’s
vocal techniques as well as rhythms and melodies vary depending on
hisorherthoughtsandfeelingsadheringtobasic,strictconventionsthatarebased on real life
experiences presented in an artistic and symbolicmanner.
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Performances are accompanied by music - usually played on three types of instruments:
wind instruments
stringinstruments
percussion instruments
The main instruments are Chinese in origin:
1. jinghu - a two-stringed instrument played with abow
2. yueqin - a four-stringed instrument that is plucked
3. sanxian - a three-stringed instrument which isalsoplucked
4. variety of gongs and cymbals – creates rhythmic and gracefulmelodies
Themelodiesplayedbytheaccompanimentfallmainlyintothreebroadcategories. The first is
the aria. The arias of Beijing opera can be further
dividedintothoseoftheErhuangandXipivarieties.Anexampleofanariaiswawadiao,anariain
theXipi style that is sung by a young Sheng to indicate heightened emotion.

The second type of melody heard in Beijing opera is the fixed-tune melody, or qupai.
These are instrumental tunes that serve a wider range of purposes than arias. Examples
include the "Water Dragon Tune" (shui long yin), which generally denotes the arrival of an
important person, and "Triple Thrust"(ji san qiang), which may signal a feast or banquet.
The final type of musical accompaniment is the percussion pattern. Such patterns
provide context to the music in ways similar to the fixed-tune melodies. For example, there
are as many as 48 different percussion patterns that accompany stage entrances. Each one
identifies the entering character by his or her individual rank and personality.

WayangKulit (Indonesia)
Wayangkulit,is an Indonesian art form in which two-dimensional leather puppets
are made to cast shadows into a screen lit from behind. Any of them are shadow puppets
prevalent in Java and Bali in Indonesia, and Kelantan and Terengganu in Malaysia are
without a doubt the best known of the Indonesian wayang. Kulit means skin and refers to
the leather construction of the
puppetsthatarecarefullychiseledwithveryfinetoolsandsupportedwithcarefully shaped
buffalo horn handles and controlrods.
Wayangkulitwasperformedinroyalcourtandwidelyperformedinpublicon religious
occasions so that knowledge of wayang became widespread among all classes inJava.

Vocal and Instrumental Features

Gamelanensembleiscomposedmainlybybronzepercussioninstruments, augmented
by other percussion instruments, strings and flute. A full Javanese gamelan ensemble
consists of:
a. saron - xylophone of heavy bronzebars
b. gender - bronze xylophone with resonance chambersbeneath
c. bonang - set of bronzebowls
d. gong and kempul – hanginggongs

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 e. kenong and ketuk – single inverted bronzebowl
f. gambang – woodenxylophone
g. rebab – two-stringedfiddle
h. suling –flute
i. kendang – horizontal drum beat with the fingers on bothends
j. tjelempung – a zither of thirteen doublestrings

C. What IsIt

Directions: LOOP A WORD. Encircle ten (10) words inside the puzzle which are related
to the musical theater and festival of Asia. Describe each word in one sentence. Write your
answers below.

P E K I N G O P E R A G
A T Y S S C P F E N N E
R A U A H Z B S A B N
I I E Q A A A D N A H D
S K Q J M E B O B A T E
A O I X I D B E K H K R
T A N K S A R O N D P O
E P E L E C D B O N I L
N B R A N G A M E L A N
E O E T K A B U K I E R

1. _
2. _
3. _
4. _ _
5. _ __
6. _
7. _
8. _ _
9. _ _
10. _

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 D. What’sMore

Activity 1: Directions: From the identified musical instruments below, choose the
correct description for each from the enumerated description in the following table.
Write the letter of your choice on space provided.

Saron
Yueqin
Taiko
Shamisen
Rebab
Sanxian
Jinghu
Kendang
Gambang
Kotsuzumi

LETTER OF
DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
THE ANSWER
1.two-stringed fiddle

2. 3 stringed instruments

3. a four-stringed instrument that is plucked

4. Stick Drum

5. a three-stringed instrument which isalso plucked

6. horizontal drum beat with the fingers on both ends

7. xylophone of heavy bronze bars

8. wooden xylophone

9. Small shoulder drum

10. a two-stringed instrument played with a bow

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Activity 2: VENN DIAGRAM

Directions: Use the diagram to show the differences and similarities of the instrumental
music of China and Japan.

CHINA JAPAN

SIMILARITIES

IV. What I Have Learned

Directions: Fill in the chart below with the appropriate musical theater and festival that
describes each Asian country.
I learned that the Musical theater and Festival of Asia are:

Japan China Indonesia

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 IV. What I Can Do

Directions: Draw any Asian musical instrument that you like most. Use
available materials like crayons, pencils, and watercolors. Describe why you
like it?
Follow the performance Rubric as your guide.

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 RUBRICS
Category Excellent Good Fair Poor
(5 pts) (4 pts) (3pts) (2 pts)
Following Followed the Followed Followed Did not follow
Directions directions most of the some of the the directions
correctly directions directions
Creativity and Student’s Student’s Student’s Student’s
Workmanship output is very output is output is fair output is dull
creative and good andtidy and has a few with lots of
tidy errors errors
Pattern Pattern of Pattern of Pattern of There is no
East Asian East Asian East Asian visiblepattern
culture is culture is culture is of East Asian
well-defined visible but not somewhat culture
and used clearly defined visible but not
from continuous
beginning to
end

V. Assessment

Directions: Use the pictures of musical instrument below and identify whether each is used
for accompanying Kabuki, WayangKulit, Peking Opera.

san ia
jinghu x
bonang

1. _ 2. _ 3.

gambang
shamisen kotsuzumi

4. 5. 6.

Variety of gongs and

cymbals

suling taiko

7. 8. 9.

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 VI. Additional Activity

Directions: Below are set of questions based on the lesson. Answer each question
on the space provided for.

1. How does Peking opera influence theater art forms in the East Asian region?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

2. Why is Kabuki theater relevant to the social, cultural, and spiritual background of
Japan?

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3. Describe at least one (1) instrument that accompanies Kabuki, WayangKulit,

PekingOpera.

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References

⮚ music8_teachers_guide_4.
⮚ music 8 learners’ material, quarter4

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VII. ANSWER KEY

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