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Acho Namgyal playing piwang in 1937. The chiwang (Dzongkha: སྤྱི་དབང་; Wylie: spyi-dbang) [1] is a type of fiddle played in Bhutan. [2] The chiwang, the lingm (), and the dramyen comprise the basic instrumental inventory for traditional Bhutanese folk music.
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Bhutan was first united in the 17th century, during the reign of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal (1594–1652); the same period saw a great blossoming of folk music and dance. . Religious music is usually chanted, and its lyrics and dance often reenact namtars, spiritual biographies of saints, and feature distinctive masks and cos
The lingm (Dzongkha: གླིངམ་, Wylie: glingm) [1] is a bamboo flute indigenous to Bhutan. [2] The lingm, the dramyin and the chiwang comprise the basic instrumental inventory for traditional Bhutanese folk music.
The dramyin or dranyen (Tibetan: སྒྲ་སྙན་, Wylie: sgra-snyan; Dzongkha: dramnyen; Chinese: 扎木聂; pinyin: zhamunie) [1] is a traditional Himalayan folk music lute with six strings, used primarily as an accompaniment to singing in the Drukpa Buddhist culture and society in Bhutan, as well as in Tibet, Ladakh, Sikkim and Himalayan West Bengal.
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 ...
The Tungna (Nepali: टुङ्ना) is a plucked string instrument from the Northern Himalayan region: Nepal, Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan. [1] It is made from a single piece of carved wood . The front hollow body (which serves as the sound-box ) is covered with stretched animal skin on which the ' bridge ' sits. [ 2 ]
Suresh Moktan released an album, New Waves, in 1996 that is the highest-grossing Bhutanese album in sales. However, he has now begun criticizing rigsar as unmusical. Others dislike the genre because it is repetitive, simple and generally a copy of Indian popular songs, [4] or because rigsar is not influenced by traditional Bhutanese music. [2]