Traditional Music: Spreading Vietnamese Culture

Traditional Vietnamese music or folk music, folk songs were born very early. Since ancient times, Vietnamese people have been very passionate about music, for them music is an indispensable part of life. Therefore, in the process of historical development, the residents here have constantly created many musical instruments and musical genres to express their feelings, to add strength, working spirit or to escape the entanglement in daily life.

We can hear the melodies of lullabies, nursery rhymes, musical genres in worship rituals, funerals, or in the dialogue between community members, in entertainment, in competitions with riddles, singing and responding to talent between boys and girls, the melodies when playing cards or telling epic poems, the songs and instruments of street singers, of "tao tu" groups, and traditional opera genres...

Vietnamese traditional music is rich because of the accumulation of genres from many different eras and because of its multi-ethnicity. The same musical genre, but each ethnic group has its own way of expressing, performing and melodies. Vietnamese lullabies are different from Thai, Dao, Muong lullabies... Some ethnic groups use lyrics and songs to put their children to sleep. Others lull their children to sleep with the gentle sounds of instruments and flutes.

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 the 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, Central Highlands, Northern... or divided further by cultural region.

If classified by type, it can be: Solo singing, duet 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, two-stringed fiddle, zither, quartet, day-shaped fiddle, and kim-shaped fiddle... There are musical instruments that are specialized for one type of music, and there are musical instruments that are used for many types of music. For example, the day-shaped fiddle, clapper, and drum are specialized for Ca Tru, and the two-stringed fiddle is specialized for Xam...

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