Folk music of the Ethnic groups in Hà Giang province
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HÀ GIANG is a mountainous frontier province in the north pole of Vietnam. Its North and West border People’s Republic of China, Lào Cai, and Yên Bái; its East is contiguous to Cao Bang province; its South borders Tuyên Quang province. Twenty ethnic groups such as Hmông, Dao, Pà Then, Tày, Nùng, Giáy, Bố Y, Thái, La Chí, Pu Péo, Cờ Lao, etc. are living in Hà Giang at present. Each group has their own cultural heritages, which create the special characteristic of Hà Giang culture.
The Vietnamese Institute for Musicology would like to introduce some selected musical items of Hmong, Dao, and Giày groups collected in the fieldwork in 2009 in Quản Bạ district, Hà Giang province. This is one of the activities belonging to the project “Supporting Vietnamese culture for sustainable development” sponsored by SIDA (Sweden).
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1. Tinh nhia - sỉnh sinh (Invitation of listening and singing)
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8. Tòng dú (Opening song in the cổ phà ceremony) - The collective performance |
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2. Song hỏn (Seeing off the lover) - Alternative playing of leaf horns
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9. Khêy khó trùng (Singing for opening door in the wedding) |
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3. Pia phia (Parting) - Alternative singing between the man and the woman |
10. Pìa phá (Animated flute melody)- Solo music of the chang tà
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4. Hêu hón hậu (Calling the rice soul) - The worship singing |
11. Mưa tây - Labor singing
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5. Tìu piêu (Giving the paper to the ancestor) - The music and the dance in the cổ phà ceremony
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12. Kềnh sai (Rice worship in the morning) - Solo music of the su
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6. Lô sây (Lullaby) |
13. Hệu pổng tý (Origin of the khèn pan-pipes) - The kểnh solo |
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7. Áy dùng (Alternative singing on fields)
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14. Sà co thào chông (Seeing you off at the mountain) - Solo music of the trà chua |