Learning Task #1:

What’s My Feeling?
Draw the emotions reflected in daily life situations, then write your preferred
musical instrument/s suited to the emotions given.
Real Life Situations Emotion Preferred Musical Instrument/s
1. Birthday celebration
2. Failing to win a game
3. Watching a horror movie
4. Winning a lottery
5. Job promotion
Learning Task #1:
What’s My Feeling?
Draw the emotions reflected in daily life situations, then write your preferred
musical instrument/s suited to the emotions given.
Real Life Situations Emotion Preferred Musical Instrument/s
1. Birthday celebration
2. Failing to win a game
3. Watching a horror movie
4. Winning a lottery
5. Job promotion
The pictures below show the different examples of traditional Asian theater and the
musical instruments used in these performances.
Traditional
Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER
MELC-BASED:
Learning Objectives
1. Identify musical characteristics of selected Asian
musical theater through video films or live
performances (MU8TH-IVa-g-1);
2. Describe the instruments that accompany Kabuki,
Wayang Kulit, and Peking Opera (MU8TH-lVa-g-
2);
MELC-BASED:
Learning Objectives
3. Describe how a specific idea or story is
communicated through music in a particular Asian
Musical Theater; (MU8THIVb-h-3);
4. Improvise appropriate sound, music, gesture,
movements, props, and costume for performance of a
chosen Asian traditional musical and theatrical form
(MU8TH-IVb-h-7);
MELC-BASED:
Learning Objectives
5. Perform selection/s from chosen Asian musical theater;
(MU8TH-IVa-g-6) and
6. Evaluate music and music performances using guided
rubrics applying knowledge of musical elements and
style. (MU8TH-lVc-h-8).
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Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER
Theater
 Theatre or theater is a collaborative form
of performing art that uses live
performers, usually actors or actresses, to
present the experience of a real or
imagined event before a live audience
in a specific place, often a stage.
Musical Theater
 It is a form of theatrical performance that
combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting
and dance.
 The story and emotional content of a
musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are
communicated through words, music,
movement and technical aspects of the
entertainment as an integrated whole.
Traditional Asian Theater
 Theater Arts is one of the standard
traditions of the people in Asia, particularly
in Japan and China.
 This kind of theater was transmitted from
generation to generation.
 Through various sorts of theater art, a
particular form can convey clarity of story,
order, and wonder, which is rarely found
in ordinary life.
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Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER
Wayang Kulit
 Shadow Puppet Theater is popular
in Indonesia and some countries
all over the world.
 It is one of the oldest traditional
storytelling which includes puppet
material with background music.
Wayang Kulit
 “Wayang” is an Indonesian term for
theater and “Kulit” means skin which
refers to puppet theater performance
whose materials are made of leather
and has control rods.
 Another feature of “Wayang Kulit” is
it is cast on the shadow.
Wayang Kulit
 It was given recognition as a Masterpiece of Oral
and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on
November 7, 2003 by UNESCO and required
Indonesians to preserve their heritage.
 The dramatic stories depict mythologies, such as
episodes from the Hindu epics, the Ramayana,
the Mahabharata as well as local adaptations of
cultural legends.
Music of Wayang Kulit
 It is performed with the
accompaniment of the Gamelan
Ensemble.
 The “Gamelan” is an orchestra
consisting largely of several
varieties of gongs and various sets
of tuned metal instruments that are
struck with mallets.
Gamelan Ensemble
1. Saron
 It is a xylophone of heavy bronze
bars.
2. Gender
 It is a bronze xylophone with resonance
chambers beneath.
3. Bonang
 It is a set of bronze bowls.
Gamelan Ensemble
4. Gong and Kempul
 It is a hanging gong.

5. Kenong and Ketuk

 It is a single inverted bronze bowl.

6. Gambang
 It is a wooden xylophone.
Gamelan Ensemble
7. Rebab
 It is a two-stringed fiddle.

8. Suling
 It is a flute.

9. Kendang
 It is a horizontal drum beat with the
fingers on both ends.
Gamelan Ensemble
10. Celempung
 It is a zither of thirteen double
strings.
Music of Wayang Kulit
 The bronze content of Gamelan
music gives bright, lingering
sound, and majestic melodies.
 Balinese Gamelan adds delicate
sounds of percussive melody.
Music of Wayang Kulit
 The three acts in Wayang Kulit
performance parallel the mood
progression of the three modes of
music: 1.
Pathet Nem, 2.
Pathet Sanga, and 3.
Pathet Manyura.
These three acts also symbolize stages and
spiritual developments in the life of the
story’s hero.
Traditional
Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER
Learning Task #2:

Arrange Me!
Classify the Gamelan musical instruments found inside the box.
Write them in their corresponding column.
Gong and Gender Gambang Saron Suling
Kempul
Kendang Tjelempung Rebab Kenong and Bonang
membranophone CHORDOPHO AEROPHONE
Ketuk IDIOPHONE
NE
Learning Task #2:

Arrange Me!
Gong and Gender Gambang Saron Suling
Kempul
Kendang Tjelempung Rebab Kenong and Bonang
membranophone CHORDOPHO AEROPHONE Ketuk IDIOPHONE
KENDANG NE
TJELEMPUNG SULING GONG AND
KEMPUL
REBAB GENDER
GAMBANG
SARON
KENONG AND
KETUK
BONANG
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Theater
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Functions of Wayang Kulit
1. Instructive - useful and informative.
2. Entertainment
3. Religious purposes
Elements of Wayang
Kulit Show

Front Area Back Area

Elements of Wayang Kulit Show
1. Gunungan and Kayanon
 Gunungan or mountain and
Kayanon or forest are the
most important part of the
show.
 It is used to signal the
beginning and the end of the
performance.
Elements of Wayang Kulit Show
1. Gunungan and Kayanon
 It is placed in the center of
the screen before the drama
begins, separating the
opposed groups of
characters that lie to the
right and left of the dalang.
Elements of Wayang Kulit Show
2. Dalang
 It is a specific name for the
puppeteer and storyteller who
operates the puppets while
narrating the story, speaking all
of the dialogue, providing the
sound effects, and conducting the
Gamelan.
Elements of Wayang Kulit Show
3. Cempala
 It is a hammer used by the dalang to knock
on the puppet box.

4. Kepyak
 It is a metal plates that the dalang hits
with his foot.
5. Kothak
 It is a puppet box.
Elements of Wayang Kulit Show
6. Blencong
 It is a light source, can be an oil
lamp or electric light.

7. Pesindhen
 A female singer.

8. Penggerong
 A male chorus.
Elements of Wayang Kulit Show
9. Gawang and Kelir
 It is a screen frame and screen, it is the
main focus of the performance.

10. Gedebog
 These are pointed sticks of the wayang
base handle pierce, the peeled trunk of a
banana tree and the spongy substance
holds the puppets in place.
Characters in Wayang
Kulit Show
 Characters with narrow eyes are refined
and elegant.
 Those with wide eyes are more down to
earth.
 Characters may vary in size, shape,
color, and costume.
 Other minor figures are ogres, clowns,
gods etc.
Traditional
Asian
Theater
MUSIC 8 FOURTH QUARTER
Learning Task #3:

Make Me Complete!
Write your understanding about Wayang Kulit in the concept map
shown below. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
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Asian
Theater
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Learning Task #4: Assignment

Watch and Analyze!

You will watch a video clip about Wayang Kulit but focus your attention to the Gamelan
ensemble. Write your observations and reactions regarding the following elements of
music listed on the table below.

Shadow Puppet Theatre / Wayang Kulit

Tempo
Melody
timbre
DYNAMIC
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Asian
Theater
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