Traditional music is a way to spread Vietnamese culture

Vietnamese traditional music, or folk music, was born very early. Since ancient times, Vietnamese residents have been very passionate about music, for them music is an indispensable part of life. Therefore, in the process of historical development, residents here have constantly created many musical instruments and music genres to express their emotions, to gain strength, work spirit or to to escape from the entanglements of everyday life.

We can hear the melodies of lullabies, nursery rhymes, and musical genres in rituals, funerals, or in responses between members of the community, in entertainment, and in meetings. Competing with quiz songs, answering songs to compete with boys and girls, singing tunes when playing cards or reciting epic poems, musical verses of buskers, and groups of "amateurs" together. traditional musical genres...

Vietnamese traditional music is rich because of the accumulation of genres from many different eras and because of its ethnic diversity. The same musical genre, but each ethnic group has its own method of expression, performance and melody. Vietnamese lullabies are different from Thai lullabies, Dao lullabies, Muong lullabies... Some tribes use lyrics to put children to sleep. Some tribes lull their children to sleep with the soft sound of a guitar or flute.

The country of Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups, which means that there are 54 different traditional musics. So in this article, we would like to mention the traditional music of the Kinh people. There are many ways to classify traditional music of the Kinh people:

If divided by genre, we have: Royal music, Cheo, Tuong, Hat Xam, Don ca tai tu, folk songs, Ca tru...

If divided by region, we have: Southern traditional music; Central region, Central Highlands, Northern region... or smaller division according to each cultural region

If classified by type, it can be: Solo singing, duo singing, group singing...

There are many ways to classify, depending on the purpose and criteria, there will be a reasonable division

In traditional music, people also use many types of musical instruments such as monochord, erhu, stork, dan day, pliers... There are musical instruments specialized for one type of music, some are used for for many types of music. For example, the bottom, drum, and adoring drums are specialized for Ca Tru, while the two are specialized for Xam...

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