What I have Learned 1. The music of Southeast Asia has unique musical style and it plays an important role in the lives of the Southeast Asian people because it is greatly associated with their culture and roots. 2. Pinpeat is a Cambodian musical ensemble or an orchestra that usually accompanies ceremonial music of the royal courts and temples. It consists of five (5) musical instruments such as samphor, oneat, chhing, skorthom ang kongvong. 3. Gamelan or Gamelan orchestra is the most popular form of music in Indonesia. It contains a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, kendang and gongs: bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. 4. Javanese Gamelan and Balinese Gamelan are the most famous types of Gamelan. 5. Vocal music is used as omamentation of the Gamelan. It is as important as gamelan. 6. Pesindhen is a female soloist singer who sings with a Gamelan. 7. Gerong refers to the unison male chorus that sings with the Gamelan. 8. Hsaing Waing is Myanmar's traditional folk music ensemble. It is made up mainly of different gongs and drums such as hne, chauk lon pat, maung hsaing, pat waing and kyi waing. 9. Classical Folk Music and Syncretic (or Acculturated music) are the two categories of Malaysian Music. 10. Agung and Kulintang is a gong-based musical ensemble commonly used in funerals and weddings in East Malaysia. It is similar to the kulintang of the Philippines, Brunei and Indonesia. 11. Kertok is a musical ensemble from the Malay Peninsula that consists of xylophones played swiftly and rhythmically in traditional Malay functions. 12.Dikir Barat is a type of musical form that is important to Malaysia's national culture. It is performed by singing in groups and often in a competitive manner usually with percussion instrumental accompaniment or sometimes without instruments at all. 13. Silat Melayu is a form of martial art that is similar to t'ai chi. Dance and music usually accompanied by gongs, drums and Indian oboes. 14. Thailand has 3 primary instrumental ensembles that are similar to the other ensembles in Southeast Asia, they are Piphat, Khureang Sai, and Mahori. 15.Lao orchestra are divided into two categories: Sep Nyai and Sep Noi. 16. Sep Nyai is similar to the Piphat of Thailand with instruments that are strictly percussive but also integrates the use of an oboe. 17.Sep Noi is also known as the Mahori of Thailand however it incorporates the use of several Khene which is a large bamboo mouth organ and is the most popular folk music instrument of Laos. 18. Nha nhac is the most popular imperial court music of Vietnam during the Tran Dynasty to the Nguyen Dynasty.
