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How is an all-night Javanese wayang kulit purwa performance divided (the three pathet) and what scene types are described in each part?

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Sources agree that an all-night Surakarta-style performance is divided into three pathet (nem, sanga, manyura) played in that order, each built from a palace court scene (jejer), further scenes (adegan) and typically a battle (perang), and that the dalang (puppeteer-narrator-singer) controls the sequence with sung suluk, narration and music cues. Times differ: one article gives 9 pm-12, 12-3, 3-5; an outreach handout gives 9 pm to about 6 am. A common outline: pathet nem sets up characters and the problem, pathet sanga holds the hero's withdrawal and, optionally, clown scenes, pathet manyura brings battles and resolution. Scene-level sequences in published lists differ by source and style.

Sources agree that an all-night Surakarta-style performance is divided into three pathet (nem, sanga, manyura) played in that order, each built from a palace court scene (jejer), further scenes (adegan) and typically a battle (perang), and that the dalang (puppeteer-narrator-singer) controls the sequence with sung suluk, narration and music cues. Times differ: one article gives 9 pm-12, 12-3, 3-5; an outreach handout gives 9 pm to about 6 am. A common outline: pathet nem sets up characters and the problem, pathet sanga holds the hero's withdrawal and, optionally, clown scenes, pathet manyura brings battles and resolution. Scene-level sequences in published lists differ by source and style. Curator qualifications: tools/c3excerpts.py: 5 of 5 non-empty excerpts found verbatim across the 11 readbacks. Term counts (pdftotext): 'manyura' present in S5 (14), S6 (159), S7 (27), S8 (16), S9 (10), S10 (1), S11 (4); 'sanga' in all seven; UMich handout S10: 'All night shadow puppet show: goes from approx. 9:00 PM until 6:00 AM'. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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    {
      "url": "https://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JLLL/article/viewFile/60373/62318",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/cseas-assets/cseas-documents/gamelan/ShadowPuppetTheatre.pdf",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
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    {
      "url": "https://journal.isi.ac.id/index.php/wayang/article/download/12419/4385",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://jurnal.isi-ska.ac.id/index.php/lakon/article/download/3152/2626",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://journal.isi.ac.id/index.php/wayang/article/download/11316/4381",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://journal.isi.ac.id/index.php/DTR/article/download/3163/1393",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    }
  ]
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  • [sourced_fact] Sources agree that an all-night Surakarta-style performance is divided into three pathet (nem, sanga, manyura) played in that order, each built from a palace court scene (jejer), further scenes (adegan) and typically a battle (perang), and that the dalang (puppeteer-narrator-singer) controls the sequence with sung suluk, narration and music cues. Times differ: one article gives 9 pm-12, 12-3, 3-5; an outreach handout gives 9 pm to about 6 am. A common outline: pathet nem sets up characters and the problem, pathet sanga holds the hero's withdrawal and, optionally, clown scenes, pathet manyura brings battles and resolution. Scene-level sequences in published lists differ by source and style. · locator: see curator disposition source

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