Creation of Pari Tanyong

Abstract

The objective of this creative research entitled “Creation of Pari Tanyong” was to compose Pari Tanyong using qualitative research methodology conducted by studying about the concepts, theories, academic subjects, related research, concepts and theories in Thai music, concepts and theories of Thai music composition, concepts and theories concept of aesthetics, concepts and theories of art creation, academic subjects about Tanyong songs including research related to Thai music composition in order to define               the scope and process of composition. There were two types of tools in this research: unstructured interview forms and work assessment forms. Theresults were presented by using a traditional southern folk song     (Rong-Ngeng).The researcher composed the melody using the amplified composition and creating an augmentation to 8 bars by dropping the melody to 8^th bar which had the same sound at the end of the original melody. The newly composed melody was discussed by descriptive analysis. The results from the research process of creation of Pari Tanyong were

            1) consisted of melodies of 6 songs as follows: Cheerful song (Lagu-Dua song): an instrumental song consisting of 3-verse melodies and 4 sentences per verse.

            2) Joyous song (Soi Rakham): lyrics consisted of 1-verse melody and 6 sentences per verse.

            3) Yahong song: the researcher used the original melody in order to conform the tradition of Tanyong

song consisting of 1-verse melody, 2 sentences per verse, and 2 bars.

            4) Relaxing song (Jingli Nona): an instrumental song consisting of the main melody and the ending melody, totaling 8 sentences.

            However, when assessing the suitability of the melody by 5 experts, it was found that there was a highly suitable level.

Keywords: Creation, Southern folk song, Pari Tanyong, Tanyong songs, Thai music composition