Asian music pictures

Description:In the shadow play , or nang sbek, the dancer, who manipulates a leather puppet, must keep his foot movements in time with vocal recitations. In village settings among the Kalinga of Luzon, in the Philippines , singing, speaking, or whispering of vowels is so subtle as to blur the border line between speech and song. Society and music Rural and urban music A general musical division exists between the urban and rural areas of Southeast Asia. In the Javanese orchestra gamelan the voice tries to imitate the nasality of the two-stringed fiddle rebab. In Cambodia, where the preference is for stories of the Ramayana which is called Ramker in Cambodia , the music is a full gong ensemble similar to the Thai pi phat ensemble, while in Myanmar, a percussion orchestra of drums and gongs in circular frames accompanies singing, dancing, and dialogues in all types of plays. Suspended gongs with a wide rim and a high knob or boss are played alone, with another gong or with a drum on the Philippine islands of Mindanao and Palawan and the Indonesian island of Kalimantan Borneo.

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