Music of Asia

2. This form of dance theater in India uses complex rhythms and mostly female dancers.
5. This Japanese puppet theater uses large puppets and puppeteers dressed in black.
6. This is a five note scale.
9. This is a way of learning music without writing it down.
13. These are the Indian microtonal scales that number in the thousands.
14. This is a scale with tones so close together that 20 or 30 tones can fit in one scale.

1. This form of musical theater has pentatonic scales and amazing acrobats.
2. This form of Japanese musical theater has an unusual stage and actors freeze in pose.
3. This Indian conducting system uses the syllables "Da Di Gi Na Do."
4. This is a way of playing an instrument so that the notes glide into one another.
5. This is a tempo that starts fast but gradually gets slower.
7. In this country the use of the pentatonic scale and simple meter are very common.
8. This texture is commonly found in traditional Chinese music.
10. In this country the raga scales and tala rhythms are very complicated.
11. This is the most important element of Japanese music.
12. In this country timbre is important; sliding tones and breathing rhythm are also common.