A STUDY OF WISDOM IN THAI TRADITIONAL MUSIC THROUGH TACIT KNOWLEDGE OF THE REMARKABLE MASTER, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SANGOBSEUK THAMVIHARN

Abstract

This research focuses on the selective artist, Assistant Professor Sangobseuk Thamviharn, including his educational background in Thai traditional music, knowledge of the principal melodies (mue khong) of Thai traditional music, and his music compositions to make notated copies of such works and to record some of them as media for online dissemination to systematic storage and dissemination by qualitative research methods. The study findings reveal that he studied both theoretical and practical knowledge in Thai traditional music with many famous masters, especially those who inherited the mue khong (a composition with a hand-pattern practice for the khong wong yai) and were taught by Luang Bamrung Chitcharoen (Thup Sattanawilai). The study was able to compile written records of the mue khong of 250 pieces in the Thai notation system, and 50 pieces from this collection were selected and recorded as media for online dissemination. It also found important tacit knowledge, such as the three unique musical characteristics of Sangobseuk Thamviharn’s mue khong: the use of luk kep in combination with luk chiao or luk Sabat, which are similar to those used in khong wong lek melodies. These techniques were adapted from the distinctive characteristics of the mue khong of Luang Bamrung Chitcharoen, which consists of sabat son, sabat ton wak, and chiao ton wak performing techniques. For a musical composition, he has composed the song as follows: Homrong chaloemphrakiat, nathi thong thao, hokbot songchan and chandiao, and toi rup samchan for khong wong yai solo.