Thailand

• Traditional Thai music is classified into folk music, which is extensively used by people in the villages, and classical music, which evolved in many royal households and was used both for ceremonies and the entertainment of the ruling class
• In the Sukothai Period (1257-1378) there was great cultural development, the Thai alphabet was invented, and they enjoyed the music of strings, percussion, winds, drums, horn, trumpets, conch shells, bells and singing
• In the Ayuthaya Period (1350-1767) Thais enjoyed creating and performing music, and it was during this time that the instrumental group first emerged (pi-phat, khruang saay, mahori)
• In the Krungthep Period (1782-1900) the art was accorded high status with the patronage of the king, and King Rama I invented new instruments which gave rise to the development of music and dance
• Pi Phat


  Plays for court ceremonies and theatrical presentations
• Pi Phat


  Composed of woodwind and percussion instruments including PINAI (woodwind), RANAT-EK (xylophone), KHONG-WONG (gong), CHING (cymbal), and TAPHON (drum)
• Khruang Saay


  Combines some of the percussion and wind instruments of the piphat with stretched string section
• Mahori


  Combination of Piphat and Khruang Sai played by women in courts
• Introduced instruments such as drums, trumpets, bells and other string and percussion instruments for entertainment?

  Sukothai Period
• Thais enjoyed creating and performing music. It was during this time that the instrumental group first emerged (pi phat, khruang say, mahori)?

  Ayuthaya Period
• It is ensemble that used woodwind and percussion?

  Piphat
• combines some of the percussion and woodwind instruments of the piphat with a stretched string section?

  Khruang Sai
• This classical Thai ensemble mainly uses string instruments. It typically uses fiddles, zithers, flutes, drums and cymbals?

  Siam