Analysis the Creative Process of Charernjai Sundaravadin

Abstract

Charernjai Sundaravadin national artist, the important and outstanding person of Thai Classical music industry especially Thai traditional singing. She is the disciple of Prayasanohdhuriyang (Cham Sundaravadin), whose father and the one who create and adjust Thai traditional singing from the past to be more fluent and melodious. Besides, she has learned both playing music instruments and singing from various famous teacher made she gained a plenty sources of knowledge that allowed her to created her own singing technique. I appreciate all that Charenjai Sundaravadin here done for Thai classical music industry. So, that is the reason why I pick the composition workings of Charenjai Sundaravadin up as the subject of my research. The workings that picked up to analyze are Jintaravatee tao, Phaya See Sao tao and Lob Roi Phlae Rak tao.

          The main factor of her singing melody composition is the basic knowledge of the principle melodic which is the essence for making the full song. Also there are the other factors for example how to put the lyrics, word division, word placing, word distributing and proportionality in rhetoric formation. The rhetoric formation can divide into two form that is, go the same time with the last note of bar and go after the last note of bar. Furthermore, the principle melodic direction, the rhythm pattern and scale have to considered as well. From this research, it was found that the distinctive characteristics of Charanjai Sundaravada singing melody composition are the singing technique. The important technique can divide to three pattern that is three tone uttering, short two tone uttering and Sound tripping uttering. These technique appeared in both word uttering and melody uttering. In addition, there is also breathing proportion that she had placed beautifully.

This Jintaravatee tao, Phaya See Sao tao and Lob Roi Phlae Rak tao's Charoenjai Sundaravadin singing melody composition research was completed according to the objectives.