VNU Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
Areas of difficulty in teaching Vietnamese traditional and folk music to non-Vietnamese include t... more Areas of difficulty in teaching Vietnamese traditional and folk music to non-Vietnamese include the aural-oral traditions, the use of non-Western European scales and extensive multiple pentatonic scales, their associated airs and modes, the heterophonic texture when musicians in an ensemble improvise a tune freely, and the Vietnamese-specific sentence-based poetic structure of the piece-sometimes described as non-metrical. By analyzing voices and instruments, a group of community organizers attempt to set up an initial guide for understanding and teaching Vietnamese folk music. This involves searching for original musical pieces and identifying the scales, ranges, background knowledge, melodic contour, sequences, motives, and temporal characteristics before visual representations of the pieces can be suggested for documentation. A recording of Ru con miền Nam “Lullaby from southern Vietnam” is fed to a peak frequency engine. This produces the pitch/intensity contour, PIC, in real ti...
Areas of difficulty in teaching Vietnamese traditional and folk music to non-Vietnamese include t... more Areas of difficulty in teaching Vietnamese traditional and folk music to non-Vietnamese include the auraloral traditions, the use of non-Western European scales and extensive multiple pentatonic scales, their associated airs and modes, the heterophonic texture when musicians improvise a tune simultaneously in an ensemble, and the Vietnamese-specific sentence-based poetic structure of the piece—sometimes described as non-metrical. By analyzing voices and instruments, a group of educational community organizers attempt to set up an initial guide for understanding and teaching Vietnamese folk music. This involves, for example, searching for original or commonly accepted musical pieces and identifying the scales, ranges, background knowledge, melodic contour, sequences, motives, and temporal characteristics before the best visual representation of pieces can be suggested for documentation. We use the famous song Ru con miền Nam (“Lullaby from south Vietnam”) to demonstrate the method. S...
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