Đờn ca tài tử (
Chữ Hán
Chữ Hán (𡨸漢, literally "Chinese characters", ), Chữ Nho (𡨸儒, literally "Confucian characters", ) or Hán tự (漢字, ), is the Vietnamese term for Chinese characters, used to write Văn ngôn (which is a form of Classical Chines ...
: ) or nhạc tài tử (樂才子) is a genre of
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small num ...
in the traditional music of southern
Vietnam
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. Its instrumentation resembles that of the
ca Huế
Ca Huế (, Chữ Hán: 歌化, "Huế songs") is a form of classical Vietnamese music of Central Vietnam, particularly the Huế region. It contrasts with the ca trù genre to the North, and the đờn ca tài tử "gifted scholar" style to the ...
style; additionally, modified versions of the European instruments guitar, violin, and
steel guitar
A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...
are used. ''
Vọng cổ ''Vọng cổ'' (, Hán tự: , "nostalgia") is a Vietnamese song and musical structure used primarily in the '' cải lương'' theater music and '' nhạc tài tử'' chamber music of southern Vietnam. It was composed sometime between 1917 and 19 ...
'' ("Longing for the Past") is one of the more popular ''tài tử'' melodies, and was composed in 1919 by songwriter ông
Sáu Lầu, of
Bạc Liêu Province in southern Vietnam.
['']Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
''The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music'' is an academic reference work. It was initiated by editors at Garland Publishing in 1988 as a 10-volume series of encyclopedias of world music. The final volumes appeared in 2001, but editions have since ...
'' South East Asia p.262 Nhạc tài tử
Etymology
The term comes from the
Sino-Vietnamese terms ''nhạc'' (
樂, literally "music") and ''tài tử'' (
才子, literally "virtuoso"; the original Chinese meaning was "gifted scholar").
See also
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Guitar phím lõm
The đàn lục huyền cầm (chữ Nôm: 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 ...
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Vọng cổ ''Vọng cổ'' (, Hán tự: , "nostalgia") is a Vietnamese song and musical structure used primarily in the '' cải lương'' theater music and '' nhạc tài tử'' chamber music of southern Vietnam. It was composed sometime between 1917 and 19 ...
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Cải lương
''Tuồng cải lương'' (, Hán-Nôm: 從改良) often referred to as cải lương (Chữ Hán: 改良), roughly "reformed theater") is a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam. It blends southern Vietnamese folk songs, classical music, '' hát ...
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Vietnamese music
Traditional Vietnamese music encompasses a large umbrella of Vietnamese music from antiquity to present times, and can also encompass multiple groups, such as those from Vietnam's ethnic minority tribes.
History
Traditional Vietnamese music has ...
References
*Trần Văn Khê/Nguyễn Thuyết Phong. "Vietnam." ''Grove Music'' online.
External links
"Huế and Tài Tử Music of Viet Nam: The Concept of Music and Social Organisation of Musicians" by Lê Tuấn Hùng
Vietnamese traditional theatre
Vietnamese music
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