Manual Conversion of Sadhukarn to Thai and Western Music Notations and Their Translation into a Rhyme Structure for Music Analysis

Sumetus Eambangyung (), Gretel Schwörer-Kohl and Witoon Purahong
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Sumetus Eambangyung: Institut für Musik, Medien- und Sprechwissenschaften (IMMS) Abteilung Musikwissenschaft, Martin—Luther—Universität Halle—Wittenberg, 06099 Halle (Saale), Germany
Gretel Schwörer-Kohl: Institut für Musik, Medien- und Sprechwissenschaften (IMMS) Abteilung Musikwissenschaft, Martin—Luther—Universität Halle—Wittenberg, 06099 Halle (Saale), Germany
Witoon Purahong: Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany

Data, 2022, vol. 7, issue 11, 1-9

Abstract: Sadhukarn plays an important role as the most sacred music composition in Thai, Cambodian, and Lao music cultural areas. Due to various versions of unverified Sadhukarn main melodies in three different countries, notating melodies in suitable formats with a systematic method is necessary. This work provides a data descriptor for music transcription related to 25 different versions of the Sadhukarn main melody collected in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. Furthermore, we introduce a new procedure of music analysis based on rhyme structure. The aims of the study are to (1) provide Thai/Western musical note comprehension in the forms of Western staff and Thai notation, and (2) describe the procedures for translating from musical note to rhyme structure. To generate a rhyme structure, we apply a Thai poetic and linguistic approach as the method establishment. Rhyme structure is composed of melodic structures, the pillar tones Look-Tok, and melodic rhyming outline.

Keywords: Sadhukarn; Khong Wong Yai; music notation; rhyme structure; Look-Tok (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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