PROJECT : ENCORE™: Standard notation

 
Program note:

I first encountered this poem through Libby Larsen's setting of it, which I saw while working as an Editorial Assistant at Oxford University Press in New York. I was immediately and profoundly moved by it, not least because of the way it unifies the Spiritual, Natural, and Human worlds in plainspoken language that is nevertheless deeply musical in its rhythm and cadence and rich in its imagery and emotional associations.

Awarded piece of the 100 years Jubilee Berlin´s Cathedral International Composition Competition/
Jury: Wolfgand Dinglinger, Uwe Gronostay, Ulrike Grosch and Jörg Sturbe

 
Program Notes:
 

 
In this piece, I combined two musical contexts, which are Thai language and style and western harmony. It is very obvious that the texts are not in English, but it is written by using English characters to make it easier to read for non-native speakers. Furthermore, most of the melodic direction, scale, and rhythmic pattern are not in western style. On the other hand, in term of harmony, it is obvious that this piece is harmonize in western style by using chords and some counterpoints, which Thai music does not have these two elements.