The E – Saew sing strategy: case study of national artist Kwanjit Sriprajan

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The purposes of this thesis was to study 1) on the biography and success of Mae Kwanjit Sriprajan 2) analysis on strategy to sing E-Saew song of Mae Kwanjit Sriprajan,Research using qualitative population research, The 7 honor qualification people in E-Saew singing as Mae Kwanjit Sriprajan’s pattern by gathering information from relevant documents and interviews. analyzing information by using content analysis.

The results were as follows: 1) Mae Kwanjit Sriprajan is a folk artist who has specialized knowledge and expertise in the process of singing the folk songs of central region with diverse songs. She was learning the basic by recognized from teacher while they sing or teaching other, until she has been trained by Sawai Wongngam and Buapan Chansri, as well as folk music teacher who has performed with her. The E-Saew folk music has appeared publicly in the form of performances on various occasions, both government and the general public It’s alsoconvey to the young students in the institution and outside the institution. She wasalso a lecturer and shows her folk songs to various organizations. Her knowledge on E-Saew folk song is the important source of information of the folk song. She has been honored as a National Artist in folk arts performances (E-Saew) for the year 1996. 2) The E-Saew singing strategies of Mae Kwanjit Sriprajan are unique identity, consisting of a resonant intonation with clearly pronouncing voiced. She hasa folksy accent with a rural accent as people from Supanburi province. She also has utteredwith principles use of sound, in accordance with the principles singing Thailand folk song but also conceal witha rural accented harmoniously in her folk songs. The poems or lyrics are selected word with meaning; usually use the real Thai words, sounds simple, easy to understand, well communication with the audience and appropriate to the era. She always has art to sing E-Saew song with joke by using polite word. The singing principles are 3 factors including; the beginner factor, singing lyric factor and finishing factor. The singing lyric factor divided into five patterns according to the content of the lyrics including teacher respective chapter, introductory chapter, confront chapter, finishing chapter and a greeting chapter. She also can improvisation song with melodic poetically and helped to create and fill poetic flavor to the audience, with the principles are the observation training and to set objectives. Using a simple touch word and meaningful and set a beautiful storyline and finishing down.She sings from her heart and extemporaneous from what her seeing with prominent point, joke and humorous depictions that created from the old song.