Hae (Clarinet Quintet)

In Thai traditions, many of them has procession (in Thai is pronounced Hae (แห่)). Each of which associated with various kinds of music. In an auspicious occasion, such as, wedding day ceremony, buddhist monk ordination ceremony, usually the procession would have the parade with the music. The Parade would walk around from one place to another while the music band, usually at the front, playing entertaining music. Those music are mostly consist of folk tune and popular music.

Charles Ives composed “Country Band March” around 1903 containing tremendous collections of music quotation within the piece as to make a parody of the realities of performance by a country band. With the similar idea in mind, Hae contained the music one might have heard in a Thai procession. Those tune were presented in a different ways, different technique, different harmony and even a twist in the tune itself!