Nangma (Tibetan: ; Chinese: 囊玛) is a genre of

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closely related to Toeshey (སྟོད་གཞས་). The word Nangma derives from the

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word ''Naghma'' meaning melody. Both a band and a

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have been named after it. "Nangma" is the name of a four-person, traditional Tibetan band dedicated to these two styles of music.Four veteran artistes to tour US.
Retrieved January 13, 2006. "Nangma" is also the name of a

Lhasa Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa (city), Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining ...

which plays this traditional music.Lost horizons of Lhasa
Retrieved January 13, 2006.

References

Bibliography

*Geoffrey Samuel. 1976. 'Songs of Lhasa.' ''Ethnomusicology'', vol.20 no.3, pp. 407–449.

External links

A webpage on the band and the U.S. tour
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