ON BEAUTY: FORMALISM AND VARIATION MELODY IN TRADITIONAL THAI MUSIC

Abstract

This article is entitled ‘On Beauty: Formalism and Variation Melody in Traditional Thai music’- aims to specify and clarify a traditional Thai music and aesthetics matters. Beauty is significantly a part of philosophical axiology regarding invisible qualification in Arts. And to question to Thai music variation and creation processes. Though, the variation melody is identified as objectivity which depended on musician’s subjectivity. So that, the paper discussed the beauty in variation melody could refer to formalism and fundamentally formed on sanitary and coherence elements. The formalism of beauty in Thai music could be clarified into procreation, imagination, creation, decoration, and expresion. The beauty in variation melodies is classified in 3 standards namely; compositional element based rendition, Arranged structural variation, and variation creation in ensemble coordination.