Materials
Music
ICH Materials 1,170
Audios
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Mời trầu(Treating betel leaves and areca nuts)
Song “Mời trầu” is performed as a response to “Mời nước”. A quid of betel and areca nut express a woman’s hope that her man can understand how much she misses him.
Viet Nam 1996 -
Đò đưa (on boat)
Đò đưa is one of a few folk songs that was influenced by Ca trù and then became a Ca trù song for entertainment. A late Ca trù folk artist, Đinh Thị Bản, said: “This is a favourite song, sung when mandarins were on a boat on Hồ Tây Lake in Hanoi in the past”.
Viet Nam 1982 -
Thinking about mother at dawn
"And at dawn, the ducks and birds are calling\nAs I'm wondering about my mother with an unspoken ache."\n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.\n
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
The sorrow of infidelity
The breeze swiftly blow the (banana) bushes\nWhile you're enchanted by your lover and neglected your child\n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Bitter about the rope (2)
I thought the well was deep so I mended a long rope\nTurned out the well was shallow so I'm bitter about the rope \n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Flirting
Up in the forest there are rare trees\nUnder the ocean there are fishes that turn dragons\nYou travel around The Six Provinces (lục tỉnh)\nWhere fate carried your traveller's heart to me\n\nThe blues (Hò) is a folk genre that originates from the working environment. Thanks to hò, it's helped the worker to aid their spirit, harmoneously integrate with the social interactions to bring out the best productivity outcome.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Please don't marry a faraway husband
The fish lounges on the rocks\nThe bird settles on the tree branch \nYou told me not to marry someone faraway \nSo that one day your parents grow old\nThen who will hand them the chopsticks to eat, the tea tray to drink\n\nThe blues (Hò) is a folk genre that originates from the working environment. Thanks to hò, it's helped the worker to aid their spirit, harmoneously integrate with the social interactions to bring out the best productivity outcome.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Xu Xe Xang song
You've been gone away for so long\nLeaving me alone in this longing\nSo how many moons will you stay this time?\nWhy would you carry sickness then remain your stay\nChopping bamboos to weave baskets\nSo that I can carry the combs of all types
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
The yearning for husband
To celebrate our first day of the million years ahead\nI'm dressing up our boudoir so it can be fulfilled\nBut if I move here then I'd hit the trunk\nThen I move over there I'd hit the pillow\nAnd I thought it'd be my lover to caress \n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
An advise for fidelity
I hope our bond can last till tomorrow\nA thread can be sown into fabric, the iron can grind into a needle\nAnd if one day we fell into hardship\nOur precious bond can last like how a resilient rope is\n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Bitter about the rope (1)
I thought the well was deep so I mended a long rope\nTurned out the well was shallow so I'm bitter about the rope \n\nLullabies (Ru) within the family environment has a hypnotising function, where it's used to ease the child into sleeping. Southern Vietnam (Nam bộ) lullabies was formed and sustained through the many layers of Nam bộ culture. The environmental ecosystem and culture have given it a distinctive form that is expressed through lyrics, melodies, and rhytms.
Viet Nam October, 2021 -
Yearning for lover
Gobies joined the convent, mackerel cried, snakehead sorrowd\nOnly if the ocean has a bridge\nSo you can come and comfort my blues\n\nThe blues (Hò) is a folk genre that originates from the working environment. Thanks to hò, it's helped the worker to aid their spirit, harmoneously integrate with the social interactions to bring out the best productivity outcome.
Viet Nam October, 2021