{"id":157,"date":"2019-09-15T08:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T08:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2019-09-15T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T08:55:41","slug":"myanmar-dance-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Dance and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Group Dance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This group dance is usually the first dance presented in a Myanmar theatrical performance show. It is the kind of dance which is performed in energetic movements and in a lively choreographic style to rhythmic beats.  This dance portrays a famous character in a well-known drama during the Innwa era in the 16th Century A.D. which reveals his hobbies and character with fascinating dance and music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:29% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"364\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/myanmar-harp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/myanmar-harp.jpg 364w, https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/myanmar-harp-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Musical Instruments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This drum circle (&#8220;saing waing&#8221;) and &#8220;Myanmar harp&#8221; are Myanmar traditional instruments.  The drum circle (&#8220;Saing Waing&#8221;) is consisted of 18 to 24 drums so hung and given names from left to right.  The drums are tuned by sticking variously amounts of a lump of dough to the membrane.  It can produce traditional diatonic scales.  The Myanmar harp is a bow-shaped instrument of wood and deer hide and compose of 13 to 16 strings of hand twisted spun silk.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Group Dance This group dance is usually the first dance presented in a Myanmar theatrical performance show. It is the kind of dance which is performed in energetic movements and in a lively choreographic style <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/?p=157\" title=\"Myanmar Dance and Music\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[37,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-music","9":"tag-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutmyanmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}