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Vietnamese Musical Instruments
Traditional Vietnamese musical instruments are the musical instruments used in the traditional and classical musics of Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende .... They comprise a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments, used by both the Vietnamese people, Viet () majority as well as the nation's List of ethnic groups in Vietnam, ethnic minorities. Strings Plucked * - monochord zither: often tuned C3, though tuning varies * - long-necked three-stringed lute with trapezoidal body: tuned G3 C4 * (also called , or ) - moon-shaped two-string lute: no fixed tuning; strings are tuned a 4th, 5th, or 7th (minor), derived from the Chinese * - two-string lute derived from the Chinese *''Đàn tam'' - fretless lute derived from the Chinese with snakeskin-cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make Music, musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an ''#Instrumentalist, instrumentalist''. The history of musical instruments dates to the beginnings of human culture. Early musical instruments may have been used for rituals, such as a horn (music), horn to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a religious ceremony. Cultures eventually developed composition and performance of melody, melodies for entertainment. Musical instruments evolved in step with changing applications and technologies. The exact date and specific origin of the first device considered a musical instrument, is widely disputed. The oldest object identified by scholars as a musical instrument, is Divje Babe flute, a simple flute, dated back 50,000–60,000 years. Many scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar Phím Lõm
The đàn lục huyền cầm (chữ Hán: 彈六絃琴) (literally "lute with six strings"), or colloquially đàn ghi-ta phím lõm (literally ghi-ta "guitar", + phím "fret", + lõm "sunken"), is a scalloped Vietnamese adaptation of the French guitar. The guitar, or ghi-ta, was adopted by Vietnamese musicians during the 19th Century. However, in order to adapt a western guitar to the deep pressing on the strings necessary for Vietnamese music the fingerboard - the wood of the neck between the frets - was scooped out to ease the pressing. This carving out of the fingerboard is what gives the distinctive scalloped appearance to the six-string ''đàn lục huyền cầm''. This form of guitar is commonly used in cải lương or "Southern Reformed Theater."Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo ''World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific'' The Rough Guide - Volume 2 - Page 265 2000 "Because of the anti-religious stance of the Vietnamese gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ca Trù
''Ca trù'' (, , "tally card songs"), also known as hát cô đầu or hát nói, is a Vietnamese genre of musical storytelling performed by a featuring female vocalist, with origins in northern Vietnam. For much of its history, it was associated with a pansori-like form of entertainment, which combined entertaining wealthy people as well as performing religious songs for the royal court.Ca trù singing , ''UNESCO.org''. Ca trù is inscribed on the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2009. History There are different myths and theories related to ca trù's conception. There is a theory points to a woman named Đào Thị, a talented musician who was beloved by the Lý dynasty, Lý Dynasty imperial court. This theory also claims that ever since the ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
đàn đáy
The ''đàn đáy'' (Chữ Nôm: 彈𡌠)is a Vietnamese plucked lute with three strings, a trapezoidal wooden body, and a very long wooden neck with ten raised frets. Players formerly used silk strings, but since the late 20th century have generally used nylon. Usage It is used primarily in Northern Vietnam, and is one of the accompanying instruments used in ''ca trù''. In the late 20th century, a modernized version of the electric bass guitar in the shape of the ''đàn đáy'' was developed for use in the neo-traditional music composed and performed at the Hanoi Conservatory. Unlike the ''đàn đáy'', this instrument has a solid wooden body and metal strings, and without raised frets. Etymology In the Vietnamese language, ''đàn'' is a classifier used primarily to refer to string instruments, and ''đáy'' means "bottom." Thus, the instrument's name translates literally as "bottom string instrument." However, the instrument's body has no back. According to one onlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
đàn Bầu
The ''đàn bầu'' (; "gourd zither"; Chữ Nôm: ), also called ''độc huyền cầm'' (獨絃琴, "one-string zither"; the name is only used by the Jing ethnicity in China) is a Vietnamese stringed instrument, in the form of a monochord (one-string) zither. History While the earliest written records of the ''đàn bầu'' date its origin to 1770, scholars estimate its age to be up to one thousand years older than that. A popular legend of its beginning tells of a blind woman playing it in the market to earn a living for her family while her husband was at war. Whether this tale is based in fact or not, it remains true that the ''đàn bầu'' has historically been played by blind musicians. Until recent times, its soft volume limited the musical contexts in which it could be used. The ''đàn bầu'', played solo, is central to Vietnamese folk music, a genre still popular today in the country. Its other traditional application is as an accompaniment to poetry readings. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tube Zither
The tube zither is a stringed musical instrument in which a tube functions both as an instrument's neck and its soundbox. As the neck, it holds strings taut and allows them to vibrate. As a soundbox, it acoustic resonance, modifies the sound and transfers it to the open air. The instruments are among the oldest of chordophones, being "a very early stage" in the development of chordophones, and predate some of the oldest chordophones, such as the Chinese Se (instrument), Se, zithers built on a tube split in half. Most tube zithers are made of bamboo, played today in Madagascar, India, Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Tube zithers made from other materials have been found in Europe and the United States, made from materials such as cornstalks and cactus. There are both round and half tube zithers, as well as tube zithers with the strings cut out of the bamboo body, ''idiochordic'', or, rarely, have separate strings, ''heterochordic''. Cultural connections The areas where the bamboo tube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goong (instrument)
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Thai People
Thai people, historically known as Siamese people, are an ethnic group native to Thailand. In a narrower and ethnic sense, the Thais are also a Tai peoples, Tai ethnic group dominant in Central Thailand, Central and Southern Thailand (Siam proper). Part of the larger Tai ethno-linguistic group native to Southeast Asia as well as Southern China, Thais speak the Sukhothai languages (Thai language, Central Thai and Southern Thai language), which is classified as part of the Kra–Dai languages, Kra–Dai family of languages. The majority of Thais are followers of Theravada Buddhism. Thai cultural mandates, Government policies during the late 1930s and early 1940s resulted in the successful forced assimilation of various ethno-linguistic groups into the country's dominant Central Thai language and culture, leading to the term ''Thai people'' to come to refer to the Demographics of Thailand, population of Thailand overall. This includes other subgroups of the Tai ethno-linguistic grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nung People
Nung may refer to: * Nùng people, a Tai-speaking ethnic group of Vietnam and China * Chinese Nùng, a group of ethnic Chinese of Vietnam * Nùng language (Tai), a Kra-Dai language of Vietnam, China and Laos * Nung language (Sino-Tibetan), a Sino-Tibetan language of China and Myanmar * Yue Chinese Yue () is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Northern and southern China, Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (collectively known as Liangguang). The term Cantonese is often used to refer ... language, also called Chinese Nung * Nung/Nong, Chinese surname (農 / 农) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tay People
Tay or TAY may refer to: People and languages * Tay (name), including lists of people with the given name, surname and nickname * Tay people, an ethnic group of Vietnam ** Tày language * Atayal language, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan (ISO 639-3 code "tay") * TAY (singer), Portuguese singer Tiago Amaral (born 1999) Places Canada * Tay, Ontario, a township * Tay River, Ontario ** Tay Canal, a part of the river * Tay Sound, Nunavut Scotland * River Tay ** Tay Bridge, a railway bridge that collapsed in 1879, killing all on board a train ** Loch Tay, a freshwater loch ** Firth of Tay, the estuary into which the Tay flows Elsewhere * Tay, Iran, a village * Tay, Ardabil, a village * Lough Tay, a lake in County Wicklow, Ireland * Tay Head, Antarctica ** Firth of Tay (Antarctica) Transportation * Rolls-Royce RB.44 Tay, a turbojet aircraft engine * Rolls-Royce RB.183 Tay, a turbofan aircraft engine * ASL Airlines Belgium, formerly TNT Airways, ICAO airline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuang People
The Zhuang (; ; , , Sawndip: 佈獞) are a Tai-speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. Some also live in the Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Hunan provinces. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. With the Bouyei, Nùng, Tày, and other Northern Tai speakers, they are sometimes known as the Rau or Rao people. Their population, estimated at 18 million people, makes them the largest minority in China. Etymology The Chinese character used for the Zhuang people has changed several times. Their autonym, "Cuengh" in Standard Zhuang, was originally written with the graphic pejorative , (or ''tóng'', referring to a variety of wild dog).漢典.獞. Chinese. Accessed 14 August 2011. 新华字典, via 中华昌龙网. 字典频道.". Chinese. Accessed 14 August 2011. Chinese characters typically combine a semantic element or radical and a phonetic element. John De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
