Thailand Part 2

Bellwork

Khong wong lek: higher pitched 18-gong instruments

Ching: small cymbals

Chap: large cymbals

Chakay: three stringed chordophone

Tapone: large laced-head barrel drum

Angklung: two bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame.

Outcomes

Grammar: Learn basic facts about music from Thailand.

Rhetoric: Write a script for a shadow puppet play

Announcements

Shadow Puppet Presentations this friday

Reading #15 due Thursday Nov 21nd

Interviews and Listening excerpts for the final project due today.

Puppet Presentation is worth 100 mastery points

Ching

Chap

Chakay

Tapone

Haruman

Active Listening #2Cherd Chin เชิ�ดจี�นWhat new instrument has been added to this pi phat ensemble?

What instrument dominates in volume?

Which instrument dominates in timbre?

Listening Example #2Just the Phacts

There are three types of rhythm: slow, medium and fast

Most of Thai music is in duple meter.

When a percussion instrument trills one tone is struck in rapid succession with different mallets

Video Angklung

Map Quest: ID Thailand, Laos and Cambodia

Guided Nophes

The pi phat are heard in the royal palaces where they accompany the official ceremonies and classical dramatic presentations.

The Ranet ek carries the melody in the pi phat ensemble

A wat is a buddist church festival

Ranets (xylephones) and khongs (gongs) tune by adding or removing a mixture of beexwax or lead to their gong or bar.

CFU: Snowball

Create one question from the phacts you learned in our class today.

Write it on a piece of paper along with your name and then crumple it up and throw it to the front of the room.

When you are instructed to, go up and choose one snowball. Open it up and answer the question then turn it in.

This will count as your exit ticket for today.

Active Listening #3Kruang sai Mahori

What Chinese instrument does the bowed instrument remind you of?

The plucked one?

What is the name of the small cymbal being chimed?

Listening Example #3Just the Phacts Man

The Mahori orchestra, being much softer and mellower, was sometimes preferred over the percussive pi pat orchestra for royal banquets.

Mahori is a stringed band.

This spiked fiddle called the saw sam sai leads the ensemble.

Rubric for Shadow Puppet Plays

Write your script

In your groups from yesterday, write a script. Either use the Haruman story from the Ramayana or develop your own story.

Remember to write it in dialogue form.

It may be helpful to write out a short synopsis first.

Scripts must be at least 2 pages in length.

The completed shadow puppet assignment is worth 100 mastery points.