Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Đờn ca tài tử (Chữ Hán: 彈 歌 才子) or nhạc tài tử (樂才子) is a genre of chamber music in the traditional music of southern Vietnam. Its instrumentation resembles that of the ca Huế style; additionally, modified versions of the European instruments guitar, violin, and steel guitar are used.
Nhạc dân tộc cải biên is a modern form of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s after the founding of the Hanoi Conservatory of Music in 1956. This development involved writing traditional music using Western musical notation, while Western elements of harmony and instrumentation were added.
Singing Quan họ at Hoàn Kiếm Lake Women sing Quan họ at Đô Temple. Quan họ (Vietnamese: [kwaːn hɔ̂ˀ]) singing is a Vietnamese folk music style characterized both by its antiphonal nature, with alternating groups of female and male singers issuing musical challenges and responses.
Band performances Ca trù. Ca trù (also hát cô đầu) is a popular folk music which is said to have begun with ca nương, a female singer who charmed the enemy with her voice. Most singers remain female, and the genre has been revived since the Communist government loosened its repression in the 1980s, when it was associated with prostitution.
Birth of the Hung Ca movement (since 1985) gathered around ten young composers, including Ha Thuc Sinh, Nguyen Huu Nghia, Nguyet Anh, Viet Dzung, Phan Ni Tan, and Khuc Lan. They have composed new songs on different themes: struggle, resistance, and love, and this movement work to collect and preserve some new songs.
Ca Huế (Vietnamese: [kaː hwě], 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 South.
In 2006 he published the fruit of 30 years work, 60 selected romances for voice and piano (“Tuyển chọn 60 bài Romances và Ca khúc cho giọng hát với Piano”) - the first major Lieder collection by a Vietnamese composer. Several of these songs have been widely performed and broadcast including "Cơn mưa sang đò" ("Rain upon the ...
Player of đàn nhị. Man sitting in the centre playing the đàn nhị. The đàn nhị (Vietnamese: [ɗâːn ɲîˀ], Chữ Nôm: 彈二), also called đàn cò, is a Vietnamese bowed string instrument with two strings.