Hello everyone,
If you are interested in Vietnamese culture and want to know more about the Vietnamese music, here are some links you can look at :):
This link is about the Vietnamese music in the United States. It is specifically talking about the "Hue" and "Tai Tu" music which are Vietnamese music coming from the Central and Southern Vietnam. There are research papers on Vietnamese music. There is also a little bit of Vietnamese music history in the United States if you're interested in it.
This one is more about traditional music in general. There are definitions and explanations of the different type of Vietnamese music you can find.If you go on this website, you will also learn more about the traditional Vietnamese instruments, culture, customs, and history.
This website also gives information about the different type of music in Vietnam. However, it seems more detailed and more accurate than the previous website. There is also a nice article about "pre-war Vietnamese music".
This website gives a brief history of the Vietnamese music. It also gives some books' titles referring to this type of music. The website includes two samples of Vietnamese music for those who wants to have an overview of it. As the name of the websites indicates, there are also different other Asian music histories to learn about.
This website tells more about the "Vietnamese pre-war music". You can also listen to diverse Vietnamese music to get more familiar with it. However, the titles are in Vietnamese..
I think this website is very well organized and is simple to follow. It classifies the five types of Vietnamese music and gives clear and simple information. They also gives some examples of CD's sets that you can listen to.
You can listen to the several types of music on this website. It gives you an sample of the different kind of music you can listen to wherever you are in Vietnam (north, center, south). It also gives you information about the different kind of instrumental music such as idiophones, membranophones, aerophones, and chordophones.
You can learn about traditional and modern Vietnamese music on this websites as well as other information about Vietnamese culture. I think it has a lot of information about Vietnamese history, culture, news and others. It is very complete. They also gives other links about Vietnamese music you can listen to in the United States.
