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Music for Theater: CHINESE GLOVE PUPPET THEATER

The Chinese Glove Puppet Theater uses music as accompaniment, to announce the start of a show and changes of scene, as sound effects and to mark entrances and curtain changes. It accompanies speech and vocal melodies. The music itself is heterophonic and is learnt by rote without using written scores. Instruments used include a drum, two woodblocks, clappers, cymbals, two gongs, 2 to 3 stringed instruments (the pan-hu and the yueh chin and sometimes also the ji-hian or large erhu) and the sona. (Tan 1984, 1981).