Music Creative from Buddha’s historical stucco images at Chaiwattanaram Temple

Abstract

          This research is a creative qualitative research. The purpose is to study Buddha’s historical stucco images at Chaiwattanaram Temple and to create songs from Buddha’s historical stucco images at Chaiwattanaram Temple. The researcher studies concepts and theories from academic works. Data were collected from fieldwork and expert interviews by using an interview forms to collect data about buddhist history archeology and music specialists. Analyze the data to determine the issues for the music creation.
           The results showed that (1) Wat Chaiwatthanaram, that located on the west of the Chao Phraya River outside the city, was built by King Prasat Thong. That located on the west of the Chao Phraya River outside the city. The traces of Buddha's historical stucco images showed  3 events: birth, enlightenment and nirvana, which coincide with Visakha Bucha Day,
an important day for Buddhists around the world. (2) Music Creative from Buddha’s historical stucco images at Chaiwattanaram Temple was created in the form of a suite song based on  data evidence. It consists of 5 major songs by adopting the principle of Montri Tramote in naming the songs as Nop Apiwan Song, Dusit Sompob song, Rung Arun Wanpen song, La Sangkhan song and Chai Watthanaram song. The author created according to the principles of Thai Classical music composition, and determined to use the Piphat Mai Nuam ensemble to show respect and reflecting the value and  importance of Buddhism and to be a guideline for studying Thai music composition and use to learn and practice easily.