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The music of Hué, Don-Nguyet and Don-Tranh
Amis du Vieux Hué, Bulletin • 6 • Published In 1919 • Pages: 233-387
By: Hoàng-Yèn, Botsford, Keith.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Research on the old music, for the sake of their preservation and use, forms the basis of this article on music in Hué. Hoàng-Yèn was secretary-interpreter to the Residency. Included are the 'laws' concerning music, i.e., when it is not played, the eight 'perfections', descriptions and illustrations of both stringed and wind instruments, famous musicians, and musical techniques. The latter includes notations, symbols, and musical structure as well as the techniques of playing, tuning and the size of the strings. A short description of the kinds of music is followed by full musical notations of many airs for both the 'moon' guitar (don-nguyet) and the sixteen-stringed guitar (don-tranh). The factual parts of this article are good. Where footnotes have consisted only of the ideogram equivalents of the QUOC NGU or the English word, they have been omitted from the translation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Leisure time activities
- Music
- Musical instruments
- Numerology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Roseanne Mandler ; 1953: John Beierle ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hué, central (TRUNG BO) Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Hoàng-Yèn
- Translation of: [La musique a Hué, Dòn-Nguyet et Dòn-Tranh]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Keith Botsford
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese