Vietnam Music

Vietnam music and its history are too complicated to be described briefly. Truely, to a large extent, Vietnamese music was handed down from one generation to another.

The exact ethnological origin of the Vietnamese music is not clearly known. In addition to the Chinese, Korean, Mongolian and Southeast Asian’s influences found in archeological remnants, there seems to be something that can only be explained as indigenously Vietnamese.

Along with Chinese literature, architecture, government, and religion, Vietnam had adopted Chinese music models and developed music of her own. However, in the process of adaptation, the system was likely reshaped by the Vietnamese people according to their own well established habit.

Western music is easily understood by Westerners because it is part of their own heritage. A large part of Vietnamese music is either incomprehensible to them or greatly oversimplified for them by convenient stereotypes provided by only partially-informed writers, who sometimes confuse it with that of China. Therefore, before Westerners could understand Vietnamese music, they must first have an idea of its place in the general history of Vietnam.

Because of her geographical locations, Vietnam belongs as much to East-Asia as to South-Asia. Moreover, Vietnam was under Chinese domination for a thousand years (from the 1st to the 10th century). Besides, at the crossroads of peoples and civilization, Vietnam was also in touch with the people of the ancient Indianized Kingdom of Champa (The Cham still exist in greatly reduced number as one of the ethnic minorities in Viet Nam today).

Lullaby song, folk song, spiritual song… Gongs or Cong-Chieng, lithopone, 36 string zither… Traditional music has played an important role in the life of the Vietnamese. Nowadays, music still occupies a considerable position in the spiritual life of the Vietnamese.

Vietnam traditional music is a thing should not miss when you visit this land!

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