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The traditional music of Vietnam has been heavily influenced by Chinese music, mainly in terms of musical instruments and performance styles. [3] The introduction of American music, particularly rock and roll and pop music, has influenced the development of modern Vietnamese music.
Biên khánh - a set of L-shaped flat stone chimes used in ancient court music; [1] derived from the Chinese bianqing; Cồng chiêng - tuned gong (comes in both flat and knobbed varieties) Tam âm la - set of three small, high-pitched flat gongs in a frame; used primarily in nhã nhạc music; T'rưng - bamboo xylophone
The Vietnamese elites were educated in Chinese culture and politics. A Giao Chỉ prefect, Shi Xie, ruled Vietnam as an autonomous warlord for forty years and was posthumously deified by later Vietnamese monarchs. [51] [52] Shi Xie pledged loyalty to Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms era of China. The Eastern Wu was a formative period in ...
The chimes were hung in a wooden frame and struck with a mallet. Along with the bronze bells called bianzhong, they were an important instrument in China's ritual and court music going back to ancient times. The instrument was imported to Vietnam (where it is called biên khánh), [1] and Korea (where it is called pyeongyeong).
A Đông Sơn drum in Guimet Museum, Paris. The earliest written records describing the drum appeared in the Shi Ben, a Chinese book dated from the 3rd century BC.The Hou Hanshu, a late Han dynasty book dated to the 5th century AD, describes how the Han dynasty general Ma Yuan collected bronze drums from northern Vietnam to melt down and recast into bronze horses.
The Hồng Bàng period (Vietnamese: thời kỳ Hồng Bàng Vietnamese pronunciation: [tʰəːi˨˩ ki˨˩ hoŋm˨˩ baŋ˨˩]), [4] also called the Hồng Bàng dynasty, [5] was a legendary ancient period in Vietnamese historiography, spanning from the beginning of the rule of Kinh Dương Vương over the kingdom of Văn Lang (initially called Xích Quỷ) in 2879 BC until the conquest of ...
The Sui dynasty reincorporated Vietnam into China following the Sui–Early Lý War. This period saw the entrenchment of mandarin administration in Vietnam. The third period of Chinese rule concluded following the collapse of the Tang dynasty and the subsequent defeat of the Southern Han armada by Ngô Quyền at the Battle of Bạch Đằng.
The dúxiánqín (Sino-Vietnamese: độc huyền cầm; Chinese: 獨絃琴) is essentially the same instrument but given a Mandarin name, played by the Jing people in China, who are ethnically Vietnamese. The instrument was introduced to China when the Jing Islands off the coast of Dongxing, Guangxi were ceded to China by France.