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Xoan singing - The present and the past. The ritual singing in Xoan performance is followed by Đúm singing of love exchange. Xoan singing, a cultural and artistic activity, associated with agricultural festivals of Việt people, has a long-standing development history. It is connected with sacrifice ceremonies and religious festivals, which appeared before the religion of worshiping village guardian spirits such as totemism, animism, lingaism (which is manifested in worshiping female and male sex organs or copulation behavior), or ancestor worship...>>

Some matters related to collection, preservation of musical instruments of ethnic minorities. Vietnam is a country with many ethnic groups and most of the peoples have their own traditional musical instruments. Thus, there are hundreds of different musical instruments of 53 ethnic minorities. It is a treasure of plentiful, diversified and valuable musical instruments...>>

Some Highlights and Bad Points of the current Musicology researching, theory and commentary activities. For us, one the highlight of now a day musicology researching, theory and commentary works is Vietnam Institution of Musicology...>>

Art and music. The new – it’s the well forgotten old Now, in 2008, we can say that Vietnamese art is familiar with all the existing contemporary art forms and genres...>>

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Experiences to make musical notation of the gong tunes and rhythms

Notation in vietnamese court music

About some Northern musical instruments imported into Vietnam

Nhạc chương in the Nguyễn dynasty

Ca trù’s thể cách in the recognition of  Hán-Nôm materials

Gongs in the Central Highland of Vietnam not in existence but in existence

Dream of a musical theory and criticism

Folk music of Ha Nhi ethnic group, Chung Chai commune, Muong Nhe district, Dien Bien province

Trống quân in Vietnam now and then

Survey the folk song of K'ho ethnic group in Lam Dong

Preservation - archive of traditional music

Lullaby in the community life A folk-song genre in need  of preservation and re-popularization

Song of the falls-crossing

Interpretation of some solutions to promote the value of “national sonic property” of the Vietnamese institute for musicology for social life

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