3/26/2023 0 Comments Stringed instruments listĐàn tính and Đàn tam thập lục Vietnamese Wind Instruments Đàn tính: 2 or 3-stringed lute of the Tay and Thai people in the North.Đàn đáy: 3-stringed lute with a rectangular body.Đàn tam: 3-stringed lute with the body covered by python skin.Several other Vietnamese musical instruments with strings are: In “Đờn Ca Tài Tử” performance, some signature lutes include “Đàn nguyệt” or “Đàn kìm” (2 strings, a moon-shaped body with no soundhole) or “Đàn sến” (2 strings, flower-shaped lute) are more popular, while “Đàn bầu” (gourd zither with a single string) and “Đàn nhị” or “Đàn cò” (2-stringed bowl-shaped chordophone) are usually played in “Hát xẩm” performances (Vietnamese folk songs in the North), and “Đàn k’ni” (a single-stringed instruments with which you have to stretch the string with your mouth) is one of the rare string instrument in Central Highland’s music orchestra. And like many other aspects of Vietnamese culture, some Vietnamese musical instruments are also partly influenced by or adopted from Chinese ones like “Đàn tranh” (16-stringed zithers) and “Đàn tỳ bà” (4-stringed lute, with the body shaped like a water drop). It is not easy to list all and tell each kind of string instruments in Vietnam apart because there are too many with similar looks. While the traditional music of people in the deltas uses more string instruments, the people in the mountainous area tend to create melodies with percussion instruments and wind instruments. They can be used to create music for songs or dances, in solo or orchestra performances. Most of the traditional Vietnamese musical instruments are string, wind, and percussion instruments, made of natural materials like wood, bamboo, stones, ivory, and animal skins. It is not easy to find these Vietnamese musical instruments in modern time band, but you can still see them in museums and traditional performances that are recognized as the intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO like “Nhã Nhạc” (Vietnamese court music in Hue), “Quan Họ Bắc Ninh” (Vietnamese antiphonal music in the North), and “Đờn Ca Tài Tử” (South Vietnam theatrical music), or many familiar tunes of folk songs and Central Highland’s music. The origin of some Vietnamese musical instruments can be dated back to thousands of years ago, in the first form of government known in Vietnam, the Hung Kings Dynasty, while others were invented or upgraded from primitive ones about couple hundreds of years ago. In this article, we can only list out and go into details a small portion of this extensive list.Īn Overview of Vietnamese Musical Instruments It is believed that there are hundreds of Vietnamese musical instruments some are similar to one another, while some stand out to be known worldwide. Traditional instruments displayed at the Museum of Ethnology in HanoiĮach of the 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam has their own musical instruments, inherited from their ancestors, reflecting their life, rituals, and living environment.
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