The Orchestra in the Peking Opera
Peking musical drama which is called in Chinese jingju includes a lot of different kinds of arts - among them are poetry, amazing acrobatics, circus and actor art, glowing grease-paint and costumes, scenery and the music which leads everything in this incredible real show. Whereas a European audience watches the Peking drama, a Chinese audience listens to it. The difference appears because of the specifics of its music, which are foreign to a western ear. And it became a quite problematic point for Russian Musicologists who done the limited research on the jingju. The orchestra being a main part of the Peking drama music appears as a performance organizer accompanying arias, controlling every single actor's movements, consolidating all the part of the spectacle.