MAPEH 8 MUSIC Unit 4: Musical Theater and Festivals of Asia Lesson 1: Japanese Theater

1. JAPANESE
THEATER
MR. CARLO JUSTINO J. LUNA
Malabanias Integrated School
Angeles City
MUSIC
Unit 4 – Musical Theater and Festivals of Asia

2. Japanese
Theater
Japan is rich in culture and
tradition.
Ikebana Sakura
Noh Kabuki

3. Japanese
Theater
• is one of the traditions that is very
popular until today
• is the traditional form of theater
which began at the end of the 16th
century
• became the most successful
theater entertainment in the red
light districts of the great cities
KABUKI

4. Japanese
Theater
• is considered the most important
Japanese contribution to World
Theater
KABUKI

5. Japanese
Theater
• Both noh and kabuki are unique
and genuine expressions of the
Japanese spirit and culture.
• However, they mirror taste and
ideals of different social classes, in
profoundly different environments
and periods.
NOH & KABUKI

6. • is one of the popular traditional
songs of Japan
• is a traditional song that produces
distinct characteristics used in the
Asian style of making melodies also
known as the pentatonic scale
SAKURA

7. Sakura
“Cherry Blossoms”

8. Japanese
Theater
• The pattern is mainly developed by
using the pentatonic style adopted
mainly from China.
• This style is mostly used in the
performance of noh and kabuki.
PENTATONIC SCALE

9. Vocal
Pattern &
Techniques

10. Vocal
Pattern &
Techniques
• or the continuous pattern
• used in speeches building up to an
explosive climax in the aragoto
(oversized, supernatural, rough
hero) style
• requires an extraordinary breath
control that only few experts
succeed in achieving
1. Ipponchōshi

11. Vocal
Pattern &
Techniques
• adapted from the chanting of jōruri (a
traditional Japanese narrative music in
which a tayū (太夫) sings to the
accompaniment of a shamisen)
• implies a very sensitive capacity of
riding the rhythms of the shamisen
(string instrument), declaiming each
accompaniment
2. Nori

12. Vocal
Pattern &
Techniques
• the subtle delivery of poetical text
written in the Japanese metrical
form of alternating seven and five
syllables
3. Yakuharai

13. Vocal &
Instrumental
Features

14. Vocal &
Instrumental
Features
• are accompanied by shamisen
music collected and popularized a
number of aspects from all
previous forms of Japanese music
Dances and Movements

15. Vocal &
Instrumental
Features
• 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
Japanese Shamisen Music

16. Vocal &
Instrumental
Features
Nagauta
• is a love song which reached a
golden age in the first half of the
19th century as dance music for
the henge mono (quick-change
piece)
Japanese Shamisen Music

17. Vocal &
Instrumental
Features
Nagauta
• is very flexible, can be performed by one
shamisen or by an entire orchestra of 20
musicians
 10 are shamisen players
 while other play flutes
a. fue taken from the nō
b. drums (small drum-kotsuzumi; waist
drum-ōtsuzumi; stick drum-taiko)
Japanese Shamisen Music

18. JAPANESE
THEATER
MR. CARLO JUSTINO J. LUNA
Malabanias Integrated School
Angeles City
MUSIC
Unit 4 – Musical Theater and Festivals of Asia
THANKS!