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Week 1 Expected Lessons

The document provides an overview of the expected music lessons for week 1, including descriptions of traditional musical ensembles from several Southeast Asian countries. It discusses the main instruments and styles of music in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Singapore.

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Week 1 Expected Lessons

The document provides an overview of the expected music lessons for week 1, including descriptions of traditional musical ensembles from several Southeast Asian countries. It discusses the main instruments and styles of music in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Singapore.

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WEEK 1 EXPECTED LESSONS

-MUSIC-

Cambodia Music Ensembles:


Pinpeat [stringed and percussion instruments used to accompany dances, in praying to God, and other
ceremonies]

Consists of: Roneath (xylophone in metal or bamboo)


Kong (percussion instrument surrounding the player)
Skor Thom (two big drums)
Sampho (a big drum which has 2 faces)
Sro Lai (recorder)
Chhoeng

Mohory [stringed instruments that can only be used to accompany dance, theatre, wedding, and other
ceremonies]

Consists of: Khoem (35 horizontal strings instrument)


Ta Khe (3 horizontal strings instrument)
Tro (vertical strings instrument)
Skor Dai (a small drum)
Khloy (recorder)
Chhoeng

Indonesia Music Ensembles:


Javanese gamelan is used in court music. Balinese gamelan plays sacred music.

Gamelan consists of:


Metallophones (metal xylophones)
- saron (7 bronze keys and no resonators, played with hard mallets)
- gender (with bamboo resonators, played with soft mallets)
- slentem (is similar to gender but with lesser keys)
- bonangs (small bronze kettles)
- gambang (xylophone with hardwood bars struck with sticks made of buffalo horn)
- suling
- rehab (two-string fiddle of Arab origin)
- siter (zithers; a class of stringed instruments)
- celempung (stretch over a coffin-like soundboard supported with four legs)
- gongs – kenong, ketuk, kempul
- drums

Tuning systems of Indonesia:


Slendro – refers to 5 equidistant tones in octave
Peloq – adopts heptatonic (7) tone scale with semi-tone
Myanmar Music Ensembles:
Anyeint instruments are played in concerts.
Hsaing-waing instruments are played for orchestra. It consists of:
Hne (a double-reed pipe)
Chauk Lon Pat (a set of 8 tuned drums)
Maung Hsaing (gongs in a rectangular frame)
Pat waing (a set of 21 drums in a circle)
Kyi waing (gongs in a circular frame)

National instrument: saung gauk

Malaysia Music Ensembles:


Classical and folk – emerged during the pre-colonial period
Syncretic (or acculturated music) – influenced by other cultures

Agung and Kulintang – small, horizontally-laid gongs, with larger, suspended gongs, and drums
Kertok – consists of xylophones
Dikir Barat – performs choral singing with or without percussion instrumental accompaniment
Silat Melayu – combative art of self-defense with dance and music

Thailand Music Ensembles:


{Lukthung usually tells us about daily trials and tribulations of rural Thai
Mor lam is dominant folk music that speaks about the poor conditions in rural areas}

1. Piphat [performs with a hard and padded mallet on occasions like funerals, cremation ceremony and during
the holding of shadow puppetry]

Consists of: Khongwong (gong circles)


Renat (Thai xylophones)
Klong (different kinds of drums)
Klui (recorder)
Diddley bow (a large single-stringed instrument that sounds like a bass)
Kaen (reed mouth organ)
Picnai (oboe-like instrument)
2. Khrueangsai [combines percussion and wind instruments for indoor performances; used to accompany the
stick-puppet theater]

Consists of: Saw duang (a high pitched two-string bowed lute)


Saw u (the lower-pitched bowed lute)
Jakhe (three-string plucked zither)
Khlui (vertical fipple flute)
Goblet drum
A small hammered Chinese dulcimer
3. Mahori [traditionally played by court women which prefer small-sized instruments combined from Piphat
and Khrueangsai]

Consists of: Three-string saw samsai fiddle

Laos Musical Ensembles:


{The term ‘Lao’ is derived from ‘penglaodeum’ which refers to the traditional songs that describe royal court
music}

1. Sep Nyai – uses instruments that are percussive: similar to Thai’s piphat
2. Sep Not – uses khene which is a mouth organ made of bamboo: similar to Thai’s mahori

Vietnam Musical Ensembles:


Vietnamese music and its instruments were mostly of Chinese origin
Imperial court music – used to honor gods and scholars in temples
Folk music – performed in theaters, streets, courtship rituals, and ceremonies for invoking spirits
Religious and Ceremonial music – sang in religious rituals or at funerals

Main styles of music:


- Hue style refers to solo musical pieces accompanied by moon lute, small drum, tongs, cymbals, and flute.
- Northern professional style are musical performances usually accompanied by lute.
- Southern amateur style incorporates more of western instruments.

Singapore Musical Ensembles:


{Two types of orchestra}
Singapore Symphony Orchestra – known for playing music with western influences
Singapore Chinese Orchestra – performs ethnic music with Malay and Indian influence

{Traditional instruments}
Kulintang
Kompang
Angklung
Gamelan instruments
-ARTS-

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