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Music of Thailand

Index Music of Thailand

The music of Thailand reflects its geographic position at the intersection of China and India, and reflects trade routes that have historically included Persia, Africa, Greece and Rome. [1]

119 relations: Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm, Akha people, Alternative rock, Asanee–Wasan, Asia, Ayutthaya Kingdom, Bakery Music, Bar (music), BEC-TERO, Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Big Ass, Bodyslam (band), Britpop, Cambodia, Carabao (band), Caravan (Thai band), Chakee, Chakhe, Christina Aguilar, Clash (Thai band), Classical music, Cliff Richard, Colonialism, Colonization, Composer, Dance music, Equal temperament, Ethnic groups in Thailand, Eua Sunthornsanan, Europe, Funk, Germany, GMM Grammy, Hi-Rock, Hmong people, Isan, Jazz, Johnny Hodges, Kantrum, Karen people, Khene, Khim, Khlui, Khmer people, Khong wong lek, Khong wong yai, Khrueang sai, Klong khaek, ..., Klong thap, Korphai, Krap, Lahu people, Lao people, Lawa people, Lionel Hampton, Lisu people, Loso, Louis Armstrong, Luk krung, Luk thung, Mahori, Metre (music), Modern Dog, Montri Tramote, Mor lam, Mor lam sing, Music of Laos, Music of Myanmar, Nationalism, Phleng phuea chiwit, Phleng Thai sakon, Phonograph cylinder, Phrase (music theory), Pi, Pi (instrument), Pinpeat, Piphat, Pongsit Kamphee, Pongsri Woranuch, Pop music, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Pulse (music), Pumpuang Duangjan, Ranat, Ranat ek, Rewat Buddhinan, Rhythm, Sansoen Phra Barami, Saw duang, Saw sam sai, Saw u, Scale (music), Showtune (musical), Sidney Bechet, Silly Fools, Sony Music, Stan Getz, Stone Metal Fire, Suphan Buri Province, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, Swing (jazz performance style), Syncopation, Tango music, Thai Elephant Orchestra, Thai language, Thai pop music, Thailand, Thammasat University, The Impossibles (Thai band), The Overture, Thon and rammana, Thongchai McIntyre, Traditional Thai musical instruments, Tro (instrument), United States, Wat Khung Taphao, Wong shadow. Expand index (69 more) »

Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm

In music, the terms additive and divisive are used to distinguish two types of both rhythm and meter.

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Akha people

The Akha are an indigenous hill tribe who live in small villages at higher elevations in the mountains of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Yunnan Province in China.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Asanee–Wasan

Asanee–Wasan (อัสนี-วสันต์ โชติกุล or Asanee & Wasan Chotikul) is a Thai rock band fronted by brothers Asanee "Pom" and Wasan "Toe" Chotikul.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Ayutthaya Kingdom

The Ayutthaya Kingdom (อยุธยา,; also spelled Ayudhya or Ayodhaya) was a Siamese kingdom that existed from 1351 to 1767.

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Bakery Music

Bakery Music is a Thai record label founded in 1994.

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Bar (music)

In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the bar are indicated by vertical bar lines.

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BEC-TERO

BEC-TERO Entertainment Public Co.

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Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Bhumibol Adulyadej

Bhumibol Adulyadej (ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช;;; see full title below; 5 December 1927 – 13 October 2016), conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great in 1987, was the ninth monarch of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty as Rama IX.

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Big Ass

Big Ass is a Thai rock band.

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Bodyslam (band)

Bodyslam is a Thai rock band.

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Britpop

Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.

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Cambodia

Cambodia (កម្ពុជា, or Kampuchea:, Cambodge), officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia (ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា, prĕəh riəciənaacak kampuciə,; Royaume du Cambodge), is a sovereign state located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Carabao (band)

Carabao (คาราบาว) is a Thai rock band that is very popular in Thailand and other Asian countries.

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Caravan (Thai band)

Caravan (ฅาราวาน), is a Thai folk-rock band that formed out of the 1973 democracy movement.

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Chakee

The Chakee are a Muslim community found in the state of Gujarat in India.

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Chakhe

The chakhe (จะเข้,, also spelled jakhe or ja-khe), or krapeu (ក្រពើ; also called takhe, តាខេ, takhe, takkhe or charakhe), is a fretted floor zither or lute with three strings used in Thai and Khmer music.

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Christina Aguilar

Christina Aguilar is a Thai singer of French and Filipino heritage, dubbed Thai "Queen of Dance".

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Clash (Thai band)

Clash was a Thai rock band.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Colonization

Colonization (or colonisation) is a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Equal temperament

An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which the frequency interval between every pair of adjacent notes has the same ratio.

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Ethnic groups in Thailand

Thailand is a country of some 70 ethnic groups, including 24 groups of Tai peoples.

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Eua Sunthornsanan

Euah Suntornsanan (เอื้อ สุนทรสนาน;; January 21, 1910, Amphawa, Samut Songkhram Province – April 1, 1981) was a singer, Thai composer and bandleader of Suntaraporn band.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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GMM Grammy

GMM Grammy Public Company Limited (จีเอ็มเอ็ม แกรมมี่, or G"MM' Grammy) is the largest media conglomerate entertainment company in Thailand.

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Hi-Rock

Hi-Rock (ไฮ-ร็อก) were a Thai rock band famous and popular in the 1990s.

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Hmong people

The Hmong/Mong (RPA: Hmoob/Moob) are an indigenous people in Asia.

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Isan

Isan (Isan/อีสาน,; also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issarn, Issan, Esan, or Esarn; from Pali ऐशान aiśāna or Sanskrit ऐशान aiśāna "northeast") consists of 20 provinces in the northeastern region of Thailand.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Johnny Hodges

John Cornelius Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band.

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Kantrum

Kantrum (Thai กันตรึม) is a type of folk music played by the Khmer in Isan, Thailand, living near the border with Cambodia.

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Karen people

The Karen, Kayin, Kariang or Yang people (ကညီကလုာ်, ကရင်လူမျိုး,; Per Ploan Poe or Ploan in Pwo Karen and Pwa Ka Nyaw or Kanyaw in Sgaw Karen; กะเหรี่ยง) refer to a number of individual Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic groups, many of which do not share a common language or culture.

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Khene

The khene (spelled "Can" in English; Lao: ແຄນ; แคน,,; គែន - Ken; Vietnamese: khèn) is a mouth organ of Lao origin whose pipes, which are usually made of bamboo, are connected with a small, hollowed-out hardwood reservoir into which air is blown.

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Khim

The khim (ขิม,; Khmer: ឃឹម Khum) is a stringed musical instrument derived from the Persian Santur.

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Khlui

The khlui (ขลุ่ย) is a vertical duct flute from Thailand.

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Khmer people

Khmer people (ខ្មែរ,, Northern Khmer pronunciation) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Cambodia, accounting for 97.6% of the country's 15.9 million people.

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Khong wong lek

The khong wong lek (ฆ้องวงเล็ก) is a gong circle used in Thai classical music.

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Khong wong yai

The khong wong yai (ฆ้องวงใหญ่,.

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Khrueang sai

Wong khrueang sai (วงเครื่องสาย,, literally "string ensemble") is a musical ensemble in Thai classical music which consists primarily of string instruments.

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Klong khaek

Klong khaek (กลองแขก) is a type of double-headed barrel drum used in Thai music.

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Klong thap

The klong thap (กลองทับ) is a goblet-shaped drum used for providing the changes of rhythm and also for supporting rhythm of the Nora (Southern dance drama).

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Korphai

Korphai Ensemble, Korphai or kor phai (กอไผ่) which literally means a 'bunch of bamboo', is an ensemble of traditional Thai percussion music.

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Krap

The krap (กรับ) is Thai percussion instrument, which comes in three varieties.

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Lahu people

The Lahu people (Lahu: Ladhulsi / Kawzhawd; La Hủ) are an ethnic group of China and Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Lao people

The Lao are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia, who speak the eponymous language of the Tai–Kadai group.

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Lawa people

Lawa (ลัวะ or ละว้า) are an ethnic group in northern Thailand.

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.

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Lisu people

The Lisu people (လီဆူလူမျိုး,;; ลีสู่; Lisu: or) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who inhabit mountainous regions of Burma (Myanmar), southwest China, Thailand, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Loso

Loso (Thai: โลโซ) were a Thai rock band fronted by singer–guitarist–composer Seksan Sukpimai (aka Sek Loso).

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Luk krung

Luk krung (ลูกกรุง,; literally "child of the city"), also called phleng luk krung (เพลงลูกกรุง), is a genre of Thai popular music.

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Luk thung

Luk Thung, or Phleng Luk Thung (ลูกทุ่ง or เพลงลูกทุ่ง,, "Child of the Field song"), often known as Thai country music, is an acculturated song genre that emerged after World War II in the central region of Thailand.

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Mahori

The mahori (มโหรี) is a form of Thai classical ensemble traditionally played in the royal courts for the purpose of secular entertainment.

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Metre (music)

In music, metre (Am. meter) refers to the regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.

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Modern Dog

Modern Dog (Thai language: โมเดิร์นด็อก) is a Thai rock band, formed in 1992.

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Montri Tramote

Montri Tramote (มนตรี ตราโมท, 1900 – 6 August 1995) was a Thai musician, known as a master of Thai classical music.

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Mor lam

Mor lam (Thai/Isan: หมอลำ) is a traditional Lao form of song in Laos and Isan.

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Mor lam sing

Mor lam sing (Thai/Isan หมอลำซิ่ง) is a fast-paced, racy and modernized version of the traditional Lao/Isan song form mor lam (for ex:in 1986).

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Music of Laos

Music of Laos mainly refers to the music of the Lao people, a Tai ethnic group, although it can include other ethnic groups living in Laos.

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Music of Myanmar

The music of Burma (or Myanmar) has similarities with and is related to many other musical traditions in the region.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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Phleng phuea chiwit

Phleng phuea chiwit (Thai: เพลงเพื่อชีวิต; IPA:; lit. "songs for life") describes a type of Thai folk music, strongly influenced by elements of Western folk and rock music with a protest theme mainly centred on the hardship of working-class people and in favor of a democratic political system.

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Phleng Thai sakon

Phleng Thai sakon (เพลงไทยสากล) is a Thai term translating roughly as "international-style Thai music".

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Phonograph cylinder

Phonograph cylinders are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.

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Phrase (music theory)

In music theory, a phrase (φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.

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Pi

The number is a mathematical constant.

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Pi (instrument)

Pi (ปี่) is the generic term for any of a variety of quadruple reed oboes used in the traditional music of Thailand, piphat.

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Pinpeat

The pinpeat (ពិណពាទ្យ) orchestra or musical ensemble performs the ceremonial music of the royal courts and temples of Cambodia.

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Piphat

A piphat (ปี่พาทย์) is a kind of ensemble in the classical music of Thailand, which features wind and percussion instruments.

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Pongsit Kamphee

Pongsit "Pu" Kamphee (พงษ์สิทธิ์ คำภีร์) is a Thai pop singer and producer popular in the Phleng pheua chiwit (Songs for Life) genre.

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Pongsri Woranuch

Pongsri Woranuch (Thai: ผ่องศรี วรนุช) is a Thai musician.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a New Orleans jazz band founded in New Orleans by tuba player Allan Jaffe in the early 1960s.

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Pulse (music)

In music and music theory, the pulse consists of beatsWinold, Allen (1975).

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Pumpuang Duangjan

Pumpuang Duangjan, also known by the nickname Pueng ("Bee"), was a Thai megastar singer, actress who pioneered electronic Luk Thung.

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Ranat

Ranat (ระนาด,, also spelled ranad or ranaat) is the generic name for keyboard percussion instruments used in the music of Thailand.

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Ranat ek

The ranat ek (ระนาดเอก,, "alto xylophone") is a Thai musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of 21 wooden bars suspended by cords over a boat-shaped trough resonator and struck by two mallets.

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Rewat Buddhinan

Rewat Buddhinan (เรวัต พุทธินันทน์;; September 5, 1948 – October 27, 1996), or nicknamed Ter (เต๋อ Toe), was a pioneer in the Thai pop music industry.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Sansoen Phra Barami

"Sansoen Phra Barami" (สรรเสริญพระบารมี, lit: glorify his prestige) is the royal anthem of Thailand.

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Saw duang

The saw duang (ซอด้วง) is a two-stringed instrument used in traditional Thai music.

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Saw sam sai

The saw sam sai (ซอสามสาย,,, also spelled saw samsai, and occasionally called simply sam sai; literally "three stringed fiddle") is a traditional bowed string instrument of Thailand.

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Saw u

The saw u (ซออู้,,, also spelled saw ou) is a Thai bowed string instrument.

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Scale (music)

In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.

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Showtune (musical)

Showtune is a musical revue celebrating the words and music of Broadway composer and lyricist Jerry Herman.

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Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an African American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

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Silly Fools

Silly Fools (SF) is a Thai rock band.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Stone Metal Fire

Stone Metal Fire, known in Thai as Hin Lek Fai (หิน เหล็ก ไฟ) and stylized as SMF, is a Thai rock band famous and popular in the 1990s.

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Suphan Buri Province

Suphan Buri (สุพรรณบุรี) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand.

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Suraphol Sombatcharoen

Suraphol Sombatcharoen (September 25, 1930 – August 16, 1968) (Thai: สุรพล สมบัติเจริญ, also Surapon Sombatjalern) was a Thai luk thung singer.

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Swing (jazz performance style)

In music, the term swing has two main uses.

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Syncopation

In music, syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.

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Tango music

Tango is a style of music in 4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the "Rioplatenses").

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Thai Elephant Orchestra

The Thai Elephant Orchestra is a musical ensemble consisting of as many as fourteen Thai elephants near Lampang in Northern Thailand.

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Thai language

Thai, Central Thai, or Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the first language of the Central Thai people and vast majority Thai of Chinese origin.

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Thai pop music

A Thai pop, or T-pop, is a genre of Thai music roughly equivalent to western pop.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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Thammasat University

Thammasat University (มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์) (TU) (ม.), is a public research university in Thailand with campuses in Ta Prachan near the Grand Palace in the heart of Bangkok Old City (also known as Rattanakosin), in Rangsit which is 42 kilometers north of Bangkok, in Pattaya, a popular seaside district in the Eastern Seaboard, and in Lampang Province near Chiang Mai.

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The Impossibles (Thai band)

The Impossibles (ดิ อิมพอสซิเบิ้ล) was a well known Thai music or String (Thai pop) band that was active in the 1970s.

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The Overture

The Overture (โหมโรง or Hom rong) is a 2004 Thai tragic-nostalgia music-drama film.

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Thon and rammana

The thon and rammana (โทนรำมะนา) are hand drums played as a pair in Thai classical music.

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Thongchai McIntyre

Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre (ธงไชย แมคอินไตย์) (born Albert Thongchai McIntyre, December 8, 1958) is a Thai pop singer who released his debut album in 1986.

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Traditional Thai musical instruments

Traditional Thai musical instruments (เครื่องดนตรีไทย) are the musical instruments used in the traditional and classical music of Thailand.

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Tro (instrument)

Tro (ទ្រ) is the generic name for traditional bowed string instruments in Cambodia.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Wat Khung Taphao

Wat Khung Taphao (วัดคุ้งตะเภา, literally Temple of the bend of sailing ship watercourse) is a Buddhist temple (wat) is an ancient monastery located in Ban Khung Taphao, Mueang Uttaradit District of Uttaradit Province in Northern Thailand, near Khung Taphao intersection on national highway route number 11.

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Wong shadow

Wong shadow was a genre of Thai pop music current in the early 1960s.

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Classical Thai music, Thai classical music, Thai music, Traditional Thai music.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Thailand

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