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Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include Lục bát, Song thất lục bát, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines" (a type of quatrain), and "five ...
Under the reign of Bảo Đại, lyrics were added, composed by the musician Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Thiều (chữ Hán: 阮福膺昭). In the 1945 with the creation of the short-life Empire of Vietnam , prime minister Trần Trọng Kim selected "Đăng đàn cung" as Vietnam's national anthem.
Dạ cổ hoài lang (Vietnamese: [zâːˀ ko᷉ hwâːj laːŋ], "Night Drum Beats Cause Longing for Absent Husband") is a Vietnamese song, composed circa 1918 by songwriter Cao Văn Lầu, colloquially known as "Sáu Lầu," from Bạc Liêu. It was a massive hit across Vietnam in 1927 as it was taken up by travelling troupes and spawned many ...
Malay folklore refers to a series of knowledges, traditions and taboos that have been passed down through many generations in oral, written and symbolic forms among the indigenous populations of Maritime Southeast Asia .
Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one thousand songs to his credit, [1] he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with ...
Khánh Ly (born as Nguyễn Thị Lệ Mai; 6 March 1945 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese-American singer. She performed many songs written by Vietnamese composer Trịnh Công Sơn and rose to fame in the 1960s.
The song had to be easy to remember, sing, perform and popularize. Mai Văn Bộ and Huỳnh Văn Tiểng wrote the lyrics and Lưu Hữu Phước composed the music. The trio decided to use a new pseudonym " H uỳnh M inh L iêng", with the letter H, M, L representing the family name of each member.
This song was inspired by an online photo of the Gulf of Alaska, which showed two distinct shades of blue water that could not merge.He saved the title "Gulf of Alaska" on his phone, determined to write a song for a girl he wanted to win back after a heartbreak.