Jerng Mon Fon Meng for Big Band

Abstract

            Jerng Mon Fon Meng is a new jazz composition for the Big Band. The melody of the traditional Lampang song, Kaoha, is modified to create the main theme in Jerng Mon Fon Meng, performed publicly to preserve culture.

            Jerng Mon Fon Meng lasts for approximately seven minutes. The first performance of Jerng Mon Fon Meng was at the Rangsit University Jazz Orchestra Featuring New Compositions by RSU Composers concert. The second one was at a graduation concert--the Graduate Recital Napat Tanuchid. Jerng Mon Fon Meng has a main melody that arises from an adaptation of the Kaoha melody of Lampang Province using jazz music theory as the basis and composing in the style of a Big Band jazz. The composition techniques are Mode, Rootless Voicing or Rootless Harmony, Quartal Voicing, Coltrane Changes, Ostinato, Related Key, Motivic Development, Improvisation, and other important methods that support the composition.