Music

• Music of Thailand is said to be the only nation in Southeast Asia that has never been ruled by a Western colonial power.
• Thailand has acquired great influences from Chinese music in terms of musical elements and principles.
• Thailand has acquired influences from the Indians and Indonesians for musical instruments such as strings and gong-chimes.
• Thailand is known as the "Land of the Free".
• Thailand has three kinds of instrumental ensembles: Piphat Ensemble, Mahori Ensemble, and Khruang sai Ensemble.
• Piphat Ensemble is a mid-sized orchestra used to perform in funerals, cremation ceremonies, traditional dance drama, and shadow puppet theater performance.
• Hard mallets are used for outdoor performances, while padded mallets are used for indoor performances.
• Piphat Ensemble has wind and percussion instruments.
• Mahori Ensemble is a small ensemble of women musicians who perform in the courts of Central Thailand and Cambodia, usually made up of 9 to 11 instruments only.
• Mahori Ensemble has strings and percussion instruments.
• Khruang sai Ensemble is a small ensemble of musicians who play traditional Thai music, usually made up of 9 to 11 instruments only.
• Khruang sai Ensemble has wind, percussion, and string instruments.
• King Bhumibol Adulyadej was a musician, painter, photographer, author, and translator.
• King Bhumibol Adulyadej was a jazz saxophone player and composer who wrote 48 compositions, including Thai patriotic music.
• King Bhumibol Adulyadej was the first Asian composer awarded honorary membership of Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts.
• Thailand has an elephant orchestra, consisting of as many as 14 elephants, where the elephants play music essentially as conducted improvisations.
• Thailand uses the PENTATONIC SCALE in vocal music, which is commonly used in duple meter and is focused more on articulation rather than singing style.
• Music of Thailand is said to be the only nation in Southeast Asia that has never been ruled by a Western colonial power.
• Thailand has acquired great influences from Chinese music in terms of musical elements and principles.
• Thailand has acquired influences from the Indians and Indonesians for musical instruments such as strings and gong-chimes.
• Thailand is known as the "Land of the Free".
• Thailand has three kinds of instrumental ensembles: Piphat Ensemble, Mahori Ensemble, and Khruang sai Ensemble.
• Piphat Ensemble is a mid-sized orchestra used to perform in funerals, cremation ceremonies, traditional dance drama, and shadow puppet theater performance.
• Hard mallets are used for outdoor performances, while padded mallets are used for indoor performances.
• Piphat Ensemble has wind and percussion instruments.
• Mahori Ensemble is a small ensemble of women musicians who perform in the courts of Central Thailand and Cambodia, usually made up of 9 to 11 instruments only.
• Mahori Ensemble has strings and percussion instruments.
• Khruang sai Ensemble is a small ensemble of musicians who play traditional Thai music, usually made up of 9 to 11 instruments only.
• Khruang sai Ensemble has wind, percussion, and string instruments.
• King Bhumibol Adulyadej was a musician, painter, photographer, author, and translator.
• King Bhumibol Adulyadej was a jazz saxophone player and composer who wrote 48 compositions, including waltz, foxtrot, and Thai patriotic music.
• King Bhumibol Adulyadej was the first Asian composer awarded honorary membership of Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts.
• Thailand uses the PENTATONIC SCALE in vocal music, commonly in duple meter, with an accented upbeat and more focus on articulation rather than singing style.
• Piphat ensemble is a mid-sized orchestra used to perform in funerals, cremation ceremonies, traditional dance drama, and shadow puppet theater performances.
• Hard mallets are used for outdoor performances, while padded mallets are used for indoor wind and percussion instruments.
• Pi nai is a woodwind instrument.
• Ranat ek is a xylophone.
• Khong Wong Lek consists of 16-tuned gongs.
• Khong Wong Yai consists of 18-tuned gongs.
• Taphon is a hand drum.