JVC Southeast Asia Music and Dance Regional Set -- 5 DVDs and 1 CD-ROM with 9 printable, searchable and copy-permission books

This 5 DVD-R set illustrates 63 music and dance performances from Southeast Asia. Vol 1 includes Vietnamese water puppet play, bamboo flute with ensemble, shawm and drum, xylophone with flat gongs, flute and bamboo tubes, zither ensemble, folk song with dance and folk instrument performance, gong ensemble and festival of the Gialai people. Also Cambodian apsara dance, a dance-drama, folk instrument performance and a wedding ceremony. Vol 2 includes Thailand's candle dance, ceremonial dance-drama, masked dance, zither, bowed lute and string ensemble music, along with Burma's (Myanmar) classical music, a monkey play, ensemble music, salutation dance, a dance to pray for protection of the spirits, a harp solo, drum dance and puppet dance.Vol 3 visits Malaysia and presents court dance, folk tradition, dance-drama and a lute duet. The Philippines are represented by music from the balingbing (split-bamboo idiophone), the nose flute, jew's harp, a bamboo tube zither, and end-blown flute, a pa