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Khmer Entertainments


Khmer music is often divided into three categories: (1) pin peat, the ceremonial music of the former royal courts; (2) phleng kar, the songs of the wedding ceremony; and (3) mohori, secular entertainment music, also originating in the royal courts, that is played by a string-based ensemble. Mohori usually accompanies a play of the same name and Khmer folk dances. Khmer music instruments consist of roneat, khloy (duct flute), salay (a type of flute), tror (two-stringed fiddle), khim (dulcimer), takhae, skor dai (hand drum), skor sampho (two-sided drum), and chhing.

Khmer Music Intruments

Khmer music instruments comprise a wide range of wind (khloy, Salay), string (tror, takhae, khim), and percussion (roneat).

Khloy is a wind-type instrument made of from a bamboo pipe.

Salay is another wind-type instrument made of from wood.

Khloy 

Salay

Tror Sor is a high-pitch khmer fiddle. It is a string-type instrument.

Tror Ou is a low-pitch khmer fiddle. It is a string-type instrument.

Tror Sor

Tror Ou

Takhae is a string-type instrument made of from wood.

Khim is a Khmer dulcimer and is a string-type instrument made of from wood and has metal strings.

Takhae 

Khim (Khmer dulcimer)

Roneat Ek is a khmer wood xylophone. It is a percussion instrumen.

Roneat Dek is another khmer metal xylophone. It is a percussion instrument.

Roneat Ek

Tror Ou

Gong is another khmer metal xylophone. It is a percussion instrument.

Sampho is a two-sided drum instrument.

Gong 

Sampho

Skor Dai is another Khmer drum.

Chhing used mainly in Mohoree music.

Skor Dai

Chhing

Chapey Dangveng

 

Chapey

 

 

Phleng Khmer

The word "phleng" is a literal translation of the English word 'music". The word "Khmer" is used interchangeably with the word "Cambodian" to mean people of Cambodia or Cambodian language. We can divide the Cambodian music into two main categories: modern/contemporary music and traditional music. "Phleng Khmer" refers to the Cambodian traditional music. Phleng Khmer can be divided into three sub-categories (as described above), each of which is suitable for a particular social and traditional event.

Phleng Pinpeat

Phleng Pinpeat is performed at different events ranging from praying to Buddha to classical dances to funeral processions. The songs and lyrics vary according to the event type. The praying music is melodious and serves simply to enhance the praying services. The classical dance Pinpeat emphasizes the drum beat that coordinates and synchronizes the dancers' footsteps. The funeral type has a sad tone and lyrics that may cause one to cry.

Phleng Kar (Wedding music)

Phleng Kar is one of the major components in the wedding ceremony. In fact, it is an essential one. Unlike the Phleng Mohoree theme, which is always an offbeat and happy tune, the Phleng Kar is much sober, much more emotional. It is the time for the bride and the groom to reflect about their lives, from the day they were born, how they have been raised, the good deeds of their parents, and the journey ahead as a married person. The Phleng kar is played from the early morning of the wedding day to the conclusion of the ceremony (the thread-tying and the blessing) early next day.There are six musicians in the ensemble. They use two types of fiddles (a melodic fiddle that leads the whole ensemble and the bass fiddled), one dulcimer, one Takhe (two-string dulcimer), one drum and a singer.

Phleng Mohoree (Mohoree Ensemble)

Mohoree musicians use different type of fiddles, recorder (Khloy), dulcimer and banjo, Roneat and drums. The music is suitable for an entertainment in social and traditional events. It normally has an upbeat, happy-going style of music. Songs and lyrics of Mohoree music normally depict the beauty and admiration of nature, the confession of love or the teasing between man and woman.

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Communities

VOA News Coverage - CCD 2012 (click on pictures)

Voice of America/Khmer: Dr Chanthourn Thuy

A Khmer Archaeologist visited USA in July 2012 to present his research finding about ancient iron smelter in Cambodia to Cambodian-American communities. One of his stop was Washington, DC Metro area. 


 

Voice of America Interviewed Ms Sophia Tep, CCD Vice-President

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Sam Relief Dec 2012 Newsletter

Sam Relief was very busy in early April of 2012 and has delivered another 10 tons of rice to Angkor Children Hospital at Siem Reap.


Women's Health Study: http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu


Replica of Angkor Wat

We have bought a replica of Angkor Wat (picture shown above). It is a sculpture made out from stone, by a sculptor in Pursat province, Cambodia. It is 1.3 meter long, 1.1 meter wide and .35 meter high. It took more than 2 months to complete the sculpture. Click the picture to enlarge.


Phare Ponleu Selpak

Phare Ponleu Selpak (website: www.phareps.org) is a Cambodian association providing artistic activities to children and adults around the Battambang vicinity. The artistic fields are: performing arts (circus, theater, dancing, music), visual arts (cartoon animation, painting contemporary, illustration and graphic design) and social actions (governmental school pre-school through high school, child care center, and transitional youth house). Learn more ...

Khmer Music Festival

Thank you for coming to our Khmer Music Festival on Saturday September 5th 2015

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