柬埔寨宮廷樂是吳哥王朝文明高度發展下的一項傳統文化藝術。宮廷樂於西元六世紀時開始形成，並在九世紀時達到發展成熟的狀態，包括宮廷裡的各項活動亦或民間百姓的婚喪喜慶，都和宮廷樂有著密不可分的關係，而宮廷樂獨特的表演形式與特殊的演奏風格，更是柬埔寨獨有的表演藝術，是一相當值得研究的主題。 本文主要探討宮廷樂的歷史、表演內容與音樂風格，其次是宮廷樂在現代化社會裡的變遷情況。宮廷樂發展至今已有一千多年的時間，因分別使用於宮廷與民間，可分成宮廷舞、面具舞及皮影戲三種表演形式，這三種表演形式都使用錛鍽樂團來作為伴奏音樂，且樂曲可以互相使用，而有相同的音樂表現風格，故而被統稱為“柬埔寨宮廷樂”。 柬埔寨宮廷樂，因不專屬使用於宮廷裡，也可稱為柬埔寨古典樂，作為柬埔寨的樂種之一，宮廷樂在1979年後，開始踏上復甦的道路，期間由於柬埔寨政府政治情況不穩、經濟狀況不佳，使得復原的過程艱辛且漫長，直至今日，宮廷樂雖於民間的活動頻繁，但卻未能重回宮廷裡，實為缺憾。面臨現代化社會後，宮廷樂因觀光經濟需求，現已轉移原本的使用目的，為一般社會大眾與國際間人士所認識，目前更因柬埔寨國際大門的敞開，讓不同的音樂觀念與想法帶進柬埔寨使宮廷樂未來有更大的發展空間。期盼藉由這份資料，能讓更多人認識柬埔寨宮廷樂，也提供未來研究者以作為資料的參考。 Cambodian royal music is a kind of traditional cultural art under the highly development of Angkor Empire civilization. The royal music was formed initially in the 6th century and was reached to its matured status of development in the 9th century. The various royal activities or the weddings and funerals of public people are all included to have close relationships with the royal music. And, the unique performing form of royal music and its special playing style are especially the exclusively self-owned performance art of Cambodia as well as a subject that is relatively deserved to study on it. This article was mainly to investigate its history, performance content, and music style of the royal music and was secondly to study about the change situation of this royal music in the modern society. The development of royal music already has its time of more than 1,000 years and can be divided into 3 kinds of performing forms: the royal dance, mask dance, and shadow play. All these 3 kinds of performing forms use the pin peat ensemble to play the accompany music and the music compositions can be mutually used by each others, as well as have the same style of music performance. Therefore, they are uniformly named as the “Cambodian court music”. The Cambodian court music can be called as the Cambodian classic music because of not only dedicated to be used in the royal palace. As one of the music kinds in Cambodia, the court music embarked on its recovery way after 1979. In the duration, the unstable political situation and poor economic condition has made its hard and long-term recovery process until now. Although the court music has its frequent civil activities among the public people; however, it regretfully failed to return back into the royal palace. As facing the social modernization, the original using purpose of court music is now changed due to the requirement of tourism economics and is recognized by the general social publics and international persons. Currently, different music concepts and ideas have been brought into Cambodia to make a broader development space of the royal music because of the opening international access in Cambodia. We expect to enable more and more people to know about the Cambodian court music via this information and also to provide a reference for the future researchers as their data information.
