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A Tibetan dranyen player. Rigsar (Dzongkha རིག་གསར་; Wylie: rig-gsar; "new idea") [1] is a music genre, the dominant type of popular music of Bhutan.It was originally played on a dranyen (a kind of string instrument), and dates back to the late 1960s.
The modern popular rigsar genre (Dzongkha རིག་གསར་; Wylie: rig-gsar; "new type") [14] emerged in the 1960s. Rigsar can be contrasted from most traditional music in its updated electronic instrumentation, faster rhythm, and vernacular language, especially Dzongkha and Tsangla. Its context can also be contrasted, as rigsar is a ...
Boedra (Dzongkha: བོད་སྒྲ་; Wylie: bod-sgra; [1] "Tibetan music"; also spelled bödra) is a traditional genre of Bhutanese music. Boedra, which is influenced by Tibetan folk music, is one of the two main folk singing styles in Bhutan, the other being zhungdra, which was developed in the 17th century. [2]
Most of the programming is aired in Dzongkha, but two current events and news programs each night are aired in English. The programming from the previous night is repeated from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. the next morning. Special entertainment and music request programs are also aired between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on weekends.
The Best New Songs We Heard This Month Courtesy Bad Bunny/Ethel Cain/Aly & AJ/BANKS/Lucy Dacus. We’re just days away from honoring the best music of 2024 at the Grammy Awards, but let’s not ...
Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; [d͡zòŋkʰɑ́]) is a Tibeto-Burman language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. [3] It is written using the Tibetan script . The word dzongkha means "the language of the fortress", from dzong "fortress" and kha "language".
Druk Tsenden" (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཙན་དན, Dzongkha pronunciation: [ɖ(ʐ)ṳ̀e̯ t͡sén.d̥è̤n]; "The Thunder Dragon Kingdom") is the national anthem of Bhutan. Adopted in 1953, the lyrics were written by Dolop Droep Namgay and possibly translated into English by Dasho Gyaldun Thinley.
Zhungdra (Dzongkha: གཞུང་སྒྲ་; Wylie: gzhung-sgra) [1] is one of two main styles of traditional Bhutanese folk music, the other being bödra.Arising in the 17th century, zhungdra (zhung meaning "center, mainstream", and dra meaning "music") is an entirely endemic Bhutanese style associated with the folk music of the central valleys of Paro, Thimphu, and Punakha, the heart of ...