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The đàn bầu (Vietnamese: [ɗàːn.ɓə̀w]; "gourd zither"; Chữ Nôm: 彈匏), 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.
The instrument has twenty-three 800 mm (31 in)-long wire strings attached to a bamboo tube with a metal hose-clamp around the top rim. A 4 litres (0.88 imp gal; 1.1 US gal), rectangular olive oil tin, which acts as a resonator, is clamped to the base of the tube. The instrument is capable of playing both Vietnamese and Western music.
The duxianqin is a Chinese plucked string instrument with only one string; it is derived from the Vietnamese đàn bầu.Chinese sources describe duxianqin as being an instrument of the Jing (also spelled Gin or Kinh) ethnic group, who are ethnic Vietnamese living in China. [1]
Way Out West are an Australian jazz group, formed in 2001. [1] They originated in the western suburbs of Melbourne and are noted for their unusual instrumentation which includes West African drumming, and many traditional Vietnamese string instruments such as a dan tranh, dan nguyet and dan bau.
Oliver Sudden Productions is a Canadian independent record label [1] focusing on traditional music from various parts of the world. [2] The label was founded by music producer Paul Etch in Montreal, Canada in 1993. [3]
Among his compositions should be mentioned a large orchestral work commissioned by the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Italy and titled "Ragazzi incoscienti scarabocchiano sulla porta di un negozio fallito an.1902" (reckless children scribble on the door of a failed shop in 1902), "Movements", a multimedia work for 16mm film, dan bau and ...
Songs for the spirits: Music and mediums in modern Vietnam. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Norton, B. (2013). Vietnamese popular song in '1968': War, protest and sentimentalism. In Music and protest in 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pham, N. (16 June 2010). Risking life for pop music in wartime Vietnam. BBC News.
Red music (Nhạc đỏ) is the common name of the revolutionary music (nhạc cách mạng) genre in Vietnam. This genre of music began soon after the beginning of the 20th century during the French colonial period, advocating for independence, socialism and anti-colonialism.