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Cultural Sounds: The Spirit of Vietnam > Folk Music of Ethnic Minorities in Northern Mountain Regions of vietnam

CULTURAL SOUNDS: THE SPIRIT OF VIETNAM

- CD1
- Folk Music of Ethnic Minorities
  in Northern Mountain Regions of vietnam
- The northern mountainous regions are the residential land of the Kinh people and twenty-eight out of fifty-four ethnic minorities in Vietnam. This land has diverse forms of folk culture in general and folk music in particular. The CD, Folk Music of Some Ethnic Minorities in the Northern Mountainous Regions of Vietnam introduces some repertoires of folk music that were recorded in 1959 (tracks 1, 2, 5, and 7), in 1964 (tracks 10 and 15) and in 1970 (tracks 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 16) and performed by folk artists from minority ethnic groups, such as Thái, Tày, Nùng, Cao lan, Phù lá, Hmông, of the northern mountainous regions. Although the sound quality of the recordings isn’t that good, the materials will be valuable to history and art researchers and those who love folk music. The recordings allow listeners to compare folk art of a time that was almost isolated with the outside world with folk art of our time—the time of Internet.

SOUND LIST
1	Điệu đàn vui (A happy tune) - Solo for a string instrument Performer: Ô Lù Ethnic minority: Phù lá Time of audio-recording: 1959	01'20"
2	Bài hát vui xuân (A happy song in spring) Performer: Chao Hầu Xìn Ethnic minority: Phù lá Time of audio-recording: 1959	02'55"
3	Bụt lằn (expressing spring scences) Performer: Lô Văn Héo Ethnic minority: Nùng, sub-group Nùng lòi Time of audio-recording: 1970	01'04"
4	The medley of Dá Hai (singing with accompaniment) Performers: Lồ Dính Sang (singing), Trịnh Văn Lùng (playing nhị two-string fiddle) Ethnic minority: Nùng Hà lòi Time of audio-recording: 1970	06'11"
5	Solo of the khèn Performer: Phùng Văn Táo Ethnic minority: Hmông Time of audio-recording: 1959	01'19"
6	Ứ noọng nòn (Lullaby) Performer: Lô Văn Héo Ethnic minority: Nùng Hà lòi Time of audio-recording: 1970	01'37"
7	Solo of the kèn Performer: Nông Văn Tám Ethnic minority: Cao Lan Time of audio-recording: 1959	08'17"
8	(Opening the door to offer flowers) - Singing with pí lè accompaniment Performers: Phan Văn Vinh (singing), Phan Văn Thạch (playing the pí lè instrument) Ethnic minority:Tày Time of audio-recording: 1970	02'39"
9	Hò khuyên (Singing for confidence between men and women) Performers: Lương Thị Chằng, Lương Thị Nùng Ethnic minority: Nùng, sub-group Nùng An Time of audio-recording: 1970	01'40"
10	Solo of the kèn lá (The sound of leaves calling the lovers) Performer: Ms. Dua Ethnic minority: Hmông Time of audio-recording: 1964	02'52"
11	Hà lều (A patriotic song) Performers: Lý Thị Làm, Dương Thị Phấn Ethnic minority: Nùng, sub-group Nùng Inh Time of audio-recording: 1970	03'10"
12	Lượn Lặn Performers: Lý Thị Làm, Dương Thị Phấn Ethnic minority: Nùng, sub-group Nùng Inh Time of audio-recording: 1970	02'57"
13	Musical pieces in the weddings (Instrumental ensemble) Performers: Lô Vi Khai, Lô Vi Phan Ethnic minority: Nùng Time of audio-recording: 1970	03'19"
14	Phong Slư miền đông (Phong Slư in the east) Performer: Nông Ngọc Ninh Ethnic minority: Tày Time of audio-recording: 1970	00'58"
15	Sang sa (Solo of the tính tẩu lute) Performer: Hoàng Văn Ký Ethnic minority: Thái Trắng Time of audio-recording: 1964	01'56"
16	Sli Singing (Getting married when falling in love) Performer: Trần Hùng Mạnh Ethnic minority: Nùng, sub-group Nùng lòi Time of audio-recording: 1970	01'17"