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South Asian music expresses the region’s culture, struggles, and life. It is considered to be a colorful music due to its vast population and wide culture. Vietnam is a South Asian country that holds a vast population of over 87 million people. It is a country full of chains of mountains covering the north, center, and south areas. Each area shares different languages, culture, religion, and different music.
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This show is a tradition in Vietnam since the 11th century. It consists of wooden puppets that dance in a waist-deep pool controlled by people that hide behind a screen. When the tradition first began, people would control the puppets over the flooded rice fields as a way of entertainment and joy.
An orchestra plays along while the show is performed. The orchestra is composed of drums, vocals, cymbals, horns, wooden bells, a monochord named Dan Bau, bamboo flutes, and gongs. The lyrics tell stories that are to be interpreted by the puppets and the singers sometimes interact with the puppets during the songs, shouting words at them according to the story being told. The stories are about their history or simply about their day-to-day living.
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Vietnamese Water Puppet Show in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

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Song Lang

This is a clapper idiophone used to have a “click” sound when the small beater strikes the slit wooden gong, giving the songs a rhythmic cycle. Song Langs (pronounced “shong longs”)are decorated with beautiful drawings, mostly flowers, that shows its Chinese influence.

Dan Bau

This is a monochord instrument in a zither form made of dour parts. This instrument is believed to be present in the Vietnamese culture since its dynasty period. The Dan Bau is played on the pentatonic scale and has a smooth, as well as a vibrating sound. The instrument is commonly played by blinded people, but it is still not easy to be played, requiring much precision by the player.

Dan Tranh

This is a plucked zither from Vietnam with 16 steel strings, although some may have 17, 19 or 21 strings. It is also played on the pentatonic scale. Following the Chinese tradition, Dan Tranhs are also decorated on their sides.
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One can hear the Dan Tranh in the first thirty seconds of the video, which then begins to blend in beautifully with the flutes and the drumming.
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Đàn Tranh: Tân Uyên Ương Hồ Diệp Mộng《新鸳鸯蝴蝶梦》

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Vietnamese chordophones have high frets and looser strings that give the stringed instruments a tone-bending and smooth sound. Their music is usually on a pentatonic scale and they somehow resembles the raga system of South Asia, however, certain pitches are more western related what gives Vietnamese music this complex sound.

When it comes to the beat, Vietnamese style resembles the tala style from India that consists in cycles accentuated by the song lang, having the last beat to be the most accented. Also, the Vietnamese style has such a rhythmic syncopation on its songs and a free rhythmic improvisation on most of the songs, specially on the beginning.

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Cambodia is a Southeast Asian nation, located West from Vietnam, with a population of more than 15 million people. It is a nation of multiple cultures, languages, and religions. The nation suffered a lot during the Vietnam war era, having the nation under 500 thousand of bombs that killed around 300,000 people. In 1979, the Cambodia communists, also called Khmer Rouge, led Cambodia to a genocide that killed millions of people that would be against their ideal society. Many artists, intellectuals, musicians, minorities, and foreigners were killed. They abolished school, religion, arts, music and many other things.
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The culture of music in Cambodia nearly disappeared along with its musicians. Its music was a mix of Indian, Chinese and indigenous tribes with a lot of influence from the West Rock of the 60s and 70s.

The modern music of Cambodia is highly rhythmic and has great influence of pop music. They are divided into two categories: Ramvong and Ramkbach. Ramvong tends to be more slow while Ramkbach has more energy and can be compared to Thai folk music.

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Ramvong - Khmer ramvong karaokeរូបអូនមិនល្អ

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