music of thailand 2 Flashcards
has wind and percussion instruments
played at court ceremonies and theatrical
presentations
Piphat
vocal
(nasal);
instrumental
music has thick instrumentation
and uses variations.
Timbre
a combination of piphat and khrueang-sai
instruments.
also played by women
Mahori
duple meter and syncopated (The
weak beat is frequently stressed,
causing a temporary displacement of
the regular metrical accent in music.)
Rhythm and meter
Thai music
e l ements
melody
timbre
rhythm and meter
harmony and texture
form
uses pentatonic scales ( a five
tone scale) and seven-tone
scales
Melody
heterophonic is the variation of a single
melodic line at the same time wherein on
top of the original melody, a variation of
the melody is played.
Harmony and Texture
vocal (strophic or a verse-repeating form);
instrumetal -a three part musical form has
an opening section (A), a folowing section
(B), and a repetition of the first section (A)
that is usualy written as A-B-A
Form