A beautiful song performed by Dinh Manh Ninh
In this video clip, you can see a lot of familiar places in Hanoi
Enjoy!
In this video clip, you can see a lot of familiar places in Hanoi
Enjoy!
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
September 29, 2010
September 09, 2009
I love Vietnam
Before continuing discovering more about Vietnamese Culture. Let's watch a video with a beautiful song "I love Vietnam"... Enjoy!
September 03, 2009
Ca trù (Hát ả đào)- traditional stage performance
This type of song took shape in the 15th century and was performed at communal houses. From the beginning, it was appreciated by many Confucian scholars and madarins. I then became court music which acquired its noble character.
Hat a dao is like singing a poems, that is why it is called saying-singing music . The singing technique is rather refined and meticulous. Without a good understanding the literacy value of the songs and of the harmony between the singer and the accompanying instruments, it may be difficult to fully appreciate this art.
There are three main performers on the stage: a female singer playing her "phach" (small wooden sticks beaten on a small bamboo platform to serve as percussion), a man playing "dan day" (a long-necked, 3-string lute) and a spectator who plays "trong chau" (praise drum).
Famous ca tru singing songs: Hồng hồng tuyết tuyết, Khen ai khéo vẽ, Đêm chia lửa, Tỳ bà hành, Hương Sơn phong cảnh, Tự tình, Gặp xuân...
Listen to a ca tru song: Thành phố rồng bay (The city of flying dragon) by Kim Ngoc- Linh Huong- Thuy Long
Where can you listen to ca tru song in Vietnam? Go to visit Thang Long Ca Tru Singing
Address: number 40- 32, Khuong Trung, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, VN
Email: info@catruthanglong.com
Site: http://www.catruthanglong.com
Contact: suongcam@hotmail.com and hongngoc.nguyen241@gmail.com
Hat a dao is like singing a poems, that is why it is called saying-singing music . The singing technique is rather refined and meticulous. Without a good understanding the literacy value of the songs and of the harmony between the singer and the accompanying instruments, it may be difficult to fully appreciate this art.
There are three main performers on the stage: a female singer playing her "phach" (small wooden sticks beaten on a small bamboo platform to serve as percussion), a man playing "dan day" (a long-necked, 3-string lute) and a spectator who plays "trong chau" (praise drum).
Famous ca tru singing songs: Hồng hồng tuyết tuyết, Khen ai khéo vẽ, Đêm chia lửa, Tỳ bà hành, Hương Sơn phong cảnh, Tự tình, Gặp xuân...Listen to a ca tru song: Thành phố rồng bay (The city of flying dragon) by Kim Ngoc- Linh Huong- Thuy Long
Where can you listen to ca tru song in Vietnam? Go to visit Thang Long Ca Tru Singing
Address: number 40- 32, Khuong Trung, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, VN
Email: info@catruthanglong.com
Site: http://www.catruthanglong.com
Contact: suongcam@hotmail.com and hongngoc.nguyen241@gmail.com
August 09, 2009
Vietnamese Stage Music
Vietnam Stage Music belongs to Vietnamese Traditional Music. It is now kept and being shown in theater in many special events. These are the most common ones:
1. Hát chèo: China has Peking opera, Japan has Nogaku and Vietnam has Chèo. Hát chèo is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam. It is usually performed outdoors by semi-amateur touring groups, stereotypically in a village square or the courtyard of a public building, although it is today increasingly also performed indoors and by professional performers.
(Quan am Thi Kinh tells a story of a girl, named Thi Kinh, who gets married with a rich man Thien Sy. When her husband is sleeping, she sees a mole on his face, she takes scissors and intends to trim his hair. He suddenly wakes up and thinks that she is trying to murder him. Therefore, his mother and his family put her out of the house. Lonely, she dresses as a man and goes to live in Buddhist Pagoda where she works and prays. She is named Kinh Tam. In the village, there is another girl Thi Mau who falls in love with Kinh Tam but her love is not accepted. Crazily, she has relation with a man in the same village and gets pregnant. Kinh Tam is accused of the father of the baby and she is maltreated strongly. When the baby is born, Thi Mau gives the baby back to the pagoda. Kinh Tam compassionates the baby and goes everywhere to look for milk feeding the baby. She dies 3 years later. After all, people recognize that Kinh Tam is a woman... She is called as the Bo Tat Kinh Tam- Guanyin)
2. Tuồng: It is believed that tuồng was imported from China around the 13th century when Vietnam was warring against against the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. A famous actor named Lý Nguyên Cát was imprisoned by the Vietnamese. The imperial court asked him to spread his knowledge of Chinese theatre to the children of the elite, thus explaining how tuồng had first had its beginnings in Vietnam in the royal court. Later on, it was adapted to travelling troupes who entertained commoners and peasants. Along with Hát chèo, tuồng was one of the other highly popular art forms for commoners.
3. Cải lương: can be roughly translated as "reformed theater" or "renovated theater" in English, is a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam. It blends southern Vietnamese folk songs, classical music, hát tuồng (a classical theatre form based on Chinese opera), and modern spoken drama.It originated in Southern Vietnam in the early 20th century, and blossomed in the 1930s as a theatre of the middle class during the country's French colonial period. Cải lương is now promoted as a national theatrical form. Unlike the other folk forms, it continued to prove popular with the masses as late as the 1970s and the 1980s, although it is now in decline.
4. Bài chòi: is both traditional music and game in Central Vietnam. It is often held in Vietnamese New Year Day (Tết Nguyên Đán). It consists a group of people playing the game.
5. Vọng cổ: 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 1919 by a Mr. Cao Văn Lầu (also called Sáu Lầu or Sáu Làu), of Bạc Liêu, a province in southern Vietnam (Trainor 1975). The song achieved great popularity and eventually its structure became the basis for numerous other songs. The tune is essentially melancholy in character and is sung using Vietnamese modal inflections
1. Hát chèo: China has Peking opera, Japan has Nogaku and Vietnam has Chèo. Hát chèo is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam. It is usually performed outdoors by semi-amateur touring groups, stereotypically in a village square or the courtyard of a public building, although it is today increasingly also performed indoors and by professional performers.
An excerpt of Quan Am Thi Kinh- Bad news for the monk
(Quan am Thi Kinh tells a story of a girl, named Thi Kinh, who gets married with a rich man Thien Sy. When her husband is sleeping, she sees a mole on his face, she takes scissors and intends to trim his hair. He suddenly wakes up and thinks that she is trying to murder him. Therefore, his mother and his family put her out of the house. Lonely, she dresses as a man and goes to live in Buddhist Pagoda where she works and prays. She is named Kinh Tam. In the village, there is another girl Thi Mau who falls in love with Kinh Tam but her love is not accepted. Crazily, she has relation with a man in the same village and gets pregnant. Kinh Tam is accused of the father of the baby and she is maltreated strongly. When the baby is born, Thi Mau gives the baby back to the pagoda. Kinh Tam compassionates the baby and goes everywhere to look for milk feeding the baby. She dies 3 years later. After all, people recognize that Kinh Tam is a woman... She is called as the Bo Tat Kinh Tam- Guanyin)
2. Tuồng: It is believed that tuồng was imported from China around the 13th century when Vietnam was warring against against the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. A famous actor named Lý Nguyên Cát was imprisoned by the Vietnamese. The imperial court asked him to spread his knowledge of Chinese theatre to the children of the elite, thus explaining how tuồng had first had its beginnings in Vietnam in the royal court. Later on, it was adapted to travelling troupes who entertained commoners and peasants. Along with Hát chèo, tuồng was one of the other highly popular art forms for commoners.
3. Cải lương: can be roughly translated as "reformed theater" or "renovated theater" in English, is a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam. It blends southern Vietnamese folk songs, classical music, hát tuồng (a classical theatre form based on Chinese opera), and modern spoken drama.It originated in Southern Vietnam in the early 20th century, and blossomed in the 1930s as a theatre of the middle class during the country's French colonial period. Cải lương is now promoted as a national theatrical form. Unlike the other folk forms, it continued to prove popular with the masses as late as the 1970s and the 1980s, although it is now in decline.
4. Bài chòi: is both traditional music and game in Central Vietnam. It is often held in Vietnamese New Year Day (Tết Nguyên Đán). It consists a group of people playing the game.
5. Vọng cổ: 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 1919 by a Mr. Cao Văn Lầu (also called Sáu Lầu or Sáu Làu), of Bạc Liêu, a province in southern Vietnam (Trainor 1975). The song achieved great popularity and eventually its structure became the basis for numerous other songs. The tune is essentially melancholy in character and is sung using Vietnamese modal inflections
August 08, 2009
Vietnamese folk songs
Now you are going to discover dozens of treasures of Vietnamese folk songs. Each region in Vietnam has it own types of folk songs. Vietnamese music varies slightly in the three regions: Bắc or North, Trung or Central, and Nam or South. Northern classical music is Vietnam's oldest and is traditionally more formal. Vietnamese classical music can be traced to the Mongol invasions, when the Vietnamese captured a Chinese troupe. Central classical music shows the influences of Champa culture with its melancholic melodies. Southern music exudes a lively attitude.
1. Northern folk songs contain Quan ho singing (in Bac Giang, Bac Ninh), Xoan singing (in Phu Tho), Hát trống quân (in nothern plain provinces from Thanh Hoa), hát xẩm (in northern plain provinces), hát dặm (in Ha Nam), Ca trù (in northern provices), chèo tàu hát dô (singing on boats). Besides, there are a lot of kinds of songs of northern ethnic groups such as: Thai (in Son La, Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Hoa Binh...), Tay and Nung (in Cao Bang, Ha Giang...), Muong (in Hoa Binh), Hmong (in Son La, Thanh Hoa...)
2. Central of Vietnam contains some types of traditional music scuh as Hò (most popular in Can Tho), Hò Trung Bộ ( a kind of Hò), Hát ví dặm (in Nghe An, Ha Tinh...), Hô bài chòi (in Quang Binh)
3. Southern Vietnam consists of Hò Nam Bộ (a kind of Hò), Lý Nam Bộ (it has in 3 regions but is most popular in the South), Đờn ca tài tử (origined from Nhã nhạc in Hue and traditional literature). Besides, there are some traditional music of ethnic groups such as Ede, Bana...
Nowadays many modern artists have covered these traditional songs which have new interesting sound.
This is a potpourri of traditional songs, "Three regions" performed by Minh Tuyet- Ha Vy- Tam Doan (these artists are living and working in C.A, USA), released by Thuy Nga production
Another potpourri of traditional songs,"Three regions", performed by a pop singer Thanh Thao (belongs her album in 2007): Download
Contact: suongcam@hotmail.com and hongngoc.nguyen241@gmail.com
1. Northern folk songs contain Quan ho singing (in Bac Giang, Bac Ninh), Xoan singing (in Phu Tho), Hát trống quân (in nothern plain provinces from Thanh Hoa), hát xẩm (in northern plain provinces), hát dặm (in Ha Nam), Ca trù (in northern provices), chèo tàu hát dô (singing on boats). Besides, there are a lot of kinds of songs of northern ethnic groups such as: Thai (in Son La, Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Hoa Binh...), Tay and Nung (in Cao Bang, Ha Giang...), Muong (in Hoa Binh), Hmong (in Son La, Thanh Hoa...)
"Giao duyên mời trầu"- Quan họ singing
Ca trù
2. Central of Vietnam contains some types of traditional music scuh as Hò (most popular in Can Tho), Hò Trung Bộ ( a kind of Hò), Hát ví dặm (in Nghe An, Ha Tinh...), Hô bài chòi (in Quang Binh)
"Hò Giã gạo"- Hò Trung Bộ
3. Southern Vietnam consists of Hò Nam Bộ (a kind of Hò), Lý Nam Bộ (it has in 3 regions but is most popular in the South), Đờn ca tài tử (origined from Nhã nhạc in Hue and traditional literature). Besides, there are some traditional music of ethnic groups such as Ede, Bana...
"Lý ngựa ô"- Lý Nam Bộ
Nowadays many modern artists have covered these traditional songs which have new interesting sound.
This is a potpourri of traditional songs, "Three regions" performed by Minh Tuyet- Ha Vy- Tam Doan (these artists are living and working in C.A, USA), released by Thuy Nga production
Another potpourri of traditional songs,"Three regions", performed by a pop singer Thanh Thao (belongs her album in 2007): Download
Contact: suongcam@hotmail.com and hongngoc.nguyen241@gmail.com
August 07, 2009
Listen to "Hello Vietnam" by Pham Quynh Anh
Now, listen to a beautiful song, named "Hello Vietnam"
Written: Marc Lavoine
Artist: Pham Quynh Anh
Lyric:
Tell me all about this name, that is difficult to say.
It was given me the day I was born.
Want to know about the stories of the empire of old.
My eyes say more of me than what you dare to say.
All I know of you is all the sights of war.
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar.
One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know my soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.
Tell me all about my colour, my hair and my little feet
That have carried me every mile of the way.
Want to see your house, your streets. Show me all I do not know.
Wooden sampans, floating markets, light of gold.
All I know of you is the sights of war.
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar.
One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know my soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.
And Buddha’s made of stone watch over me
My dreams they lead me through the fields of rice
In prayer, in the light…I see my kin
I touch my tree, my roots,my begin
One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know my soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.
One day I’ll walk your soil
One day I’ll finally know my soul
One day I’ll come to you
To say hello…Vietnam
To say hello…Vietnam
To say xin chào… Vietnam
Written: Marc Lavoine
Artist: Pham Quynh Anh
Lyric:
Tell me all about this name, that is difficult to say.
It was given me the day I was born.
Want to know about the stories of the empire of old.
My eyes say more of me than what you dare to say.
All I know of you is all the sights of war.
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar.
One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know my soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.
Tell me all about my colour, my hair and my little feet
That have carried me every mile of the way.
Want to see your house, your streets. Show me all I do not know.
Wooden sampans, floating markets, light of gold.
All I know of you is the sights of war.
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar.
One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know my soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.
And Buddha’s made of stone watch over me
My dreams they lead me through the fields of rice
In prayer, in the light…I see my kin
I touch my tree, my roots,my begin
One day I'll touch your soil.
One day I'll finally know my soul.
One day I'll come to you.
To say hello... Vietnam.
One day I’ll walk your soil
One day I’ll finally know my soul
One day I’ll come to you
To say hello…Vietnam
To say hello…Vietnam
To say xin chào… Vietnam
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