Components and Quality Indicators for Assessment and Judging of Thai Music Ensemble Competition

Abstract

The objective of this research is to develop components and quality indicators's
assessment and judging of Thai music ensemble competition with a mixed method ofresearch methodology with qualitative research that applied to the Delphi technique'sresearch method and experimental research.The research results showed that components and quality indicators's assessmentand judging of Thai music ensemble competition that consist; (1) elements of music skills
which contains quality indicators are the musician's personality and melody, (2) elementsof vocal skills which contains quality indicators are the singer's personality and lyric,(3) elements of ensemble skills which contains quality indicators are tempo and ensembleadjustment tactics. Quality inspection results of components and quality indicators'sassessment and judging of Thai music ensemble competition found that measurementand evaluation tools according to the components and quality indicators's assessmentand judging of Thai music ensemble competition by made into score record formaccording to the components and quality indicators's assessment and judging of Thaimusic ensemble competition that construct validity analysis results with the average ofscores from the evaluation results according to the components and quality indicators'sassessment and judging of Thai music ensemble competition between Thai ensemblegroups that have highly skilled (through to the finals round) ( X = 8 7 . 1 0 , S.D. = 3 . 9 1 )higher more than Thai ensemble groups that have low to moderate skilled level (qualified
for the qualifying round but did not qualify for the finals round) ( X =80.88, S.D. = 1.72)which statistical significance of . 0 5 level. There is Rater Agreement Index (Judges of theThai music ensemble competition, the royal cup of Her Royal Highness Princess MahaChakri Sirindhorn, Year 2023) is 0.864 – 0.964 in high level has reliability of measurement and evaluation tools equals .965 shows that the tool is reliable and can actually use this tool. In addition, the analysis results of the content consistency index were consistent across all assessment items and is appropriate at the highest level.