A COMPOSITION PROJECT “MUSIC AND LOVE”
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Thai Composer, Piano, Composition, Music, Love, CommunityAbstract
Music and love is a set of compositions for piano solo that aimed to offer original works by Thai composer as a choice for Thai piano students and listeners. Each composition is a program music that reflected and represented different interpretation of affection and love, such as love of a family, love between individual persons, love of the nature, love of religion, and love of national heritage. The title of 10 pieces are as follows: Home, Jasmine, Sibling, Soulmate, Oceans, Spirit of the Forest, Blue Sky Rag, Night Falls, Pagoda, and Blue Moon.
The researcher studied and analyzed character pieces for piano solo from the romantic period and used them as models for this composition project. The stylistic and pianistic approach had a strong connection with the title of each composition.
The researcher invited four distinguished Thai pianists to perform these works. These pianists are Pornphan Banternghansa, Tarin Supprakorn, Akkra Yuenyonghattaporn, and Mintra Rungruengsorakarn. The project was successfully presented as audio recordings, music videos, published score, and an online conference on different platform of social media. The link to music videos of this project was included in the discussion.
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