The Characteristic in Pee Jum Ensemble : Musician, Vocalist and Musical Making on Lumphun Province

Abstract

The important purpose of the characteristic of PEE JUM ensemble : musician, vocalist and musical making on Lamphun province research had 3 objects, as follows, 1) to study the socio-cultural background and lifestyle of Lamphun’s people 2) to study the characristics of PEE JUM ensamble and their music cultural contexts. 3) to analyze the characteristics and sound system of the instrument. This research was carried out to survey, recording, classifieds and analyzing the data from the Ruammit Samakkee band, Dong-Dam sub-district, Li district, and Look Mae Li Samakkee band, Thung Kaw Hang sub-district, Thung Hua Chang district. The research methodology was applied from these theorise, Heritage Quality concept from the Fine Arts Deprotment, Authenticity and Rarity Value from Nara Documents, Knowledge Management, Valuefrom Nara Documents, Knowledge Management, and Cultural Significances Values.
The study indicated indicated that Lamphun is an ancient city of the Dvaravati period, and the capital is Haripunchai, as archaeological evidence. Both PEE JUM bands of this research had the authenticity and rarity music as follows, 1) 10 parts with welcome lyrics of Tang Chiangmai song 2) 2 parts with tale and telling stoly lyrics of Japu song 3) 2 parts with fanny tale and telling story lyrics of Lamai song ang 4) a part with farewell Lyric of Auh song. The instruments of PEE JUM band consisted Pee Klang, Pee Koi, Pee Lek and Seung, without folk drums. Mae Buaphan Thiwongsa was a vocalist. Somlit Pengdoi was a musician and expert musical making. The traditional sound of Pee Jum divided into low-high G Close distance 1-2 and 6-7 of Pee Koi, low-high C Close distance 4-5 of Pee Klang and low-high C Close distance 1-2 of Pee Lek.