<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Thai classical music scale The seven - note scale of Thai classical music played on the ranat ek </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> Thai classical music is synonymous with those stylized court ensembles and repertoires that emerged in its present form within the royal centers of Central Thailand some 800 years ago . These ensembles, while being influenced by older practices and repertoires from India, are today uniquely Thai expressions . While the three primary classical ensembles, the Piphat, Khrueang sai and Mahori differ in significant ways, they all share a basic instrumentation and theoretical approach . Each employ the small ching hand cymbals and the krap wooden sticks to mark the primary beat reference . Thai classical music has a wide influence on the musical tradition of the neighboring countries . The traditional music of Myanmar was strongly influenced by the Thai music repertoire, called Yodaya (ယိုးဒယား), which were brought over from the Ayutthaya Kingdom . As Siam expanded its political and cultural influence to Laos and Cambodia during the early Rattanakosin period, its musical model was quickly absorbed by the Cambodia and Lao courts . As Frédéric Maurel explains: </P> <P> "From the close of the eighteenth century and through the nineteenth century, a number of Khmer pages, classical women dancers, and musicians studied with Thai ajarn (masters or teachers) in Cambodia . The presence of this Thai elite in Cambodia contributed to the development of strong Thai cultural influence among the Khmer upper classes . Moreover, some members of the Khmer royal family went to the Thai court and developed close relations with well - educated Thai nobility, as well as several court poets . Such cultural links were so powerful that, in some fields, one might use the term' Siamization' in referring to the processes of cultural absorption at the Khmer court at that time ." </P>

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