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A research project in the Vietnamese folk arts heritage
Mekong NYC hosts a music class to teach students how to play the đàn tranh (Vietnamese zither). The class is infused with storytelling, especially Vietnamese folk tales and culture, community building through group playing and listening, and group theory, examining traditional Vietnamese and Cambodian songs and pop music.

Lesson: Ly-Tinh-Tang_Melody
for Vietnamese 16-string zither
by Teacher Phan Gia Anh-Thư & Teacher Ngô Thanh Nhàn
Dec 04, 2024 13:29:02
m17_Ly-Tinh-Tang
1 – Ly-Tinh-Tang
Ly-Tinh-Tang • Melody • YWCM •

Tablature to Click and Print: tablatures/m17_Ly-Tinh-Tang_Melody_YWCM.pdf
T H E   S T O R Y:
Lý Tình Tang [Song of Romantic Love], also named Lý Mười Thương [Song of Ten Reasons to Fall in Love with a Huế girl]. A more famous folk song of Huế, central Vietnam, in twenty six-eight syllable couplets, describing exactly like a late rockability song, Susie Q, by Dale Hawkins 1956, I like the way you let your hair down, I like the way you talk, I like the way you walk... The orignal is always based on two six-eight syllable couplet:
Ai đem con sáo sang sông
Để cho con sáo sổ lồng bay xa.
Who brought the starling across the river,
And allowed her to break the case and fly away.

The song describes women free stature in the kingdom of Vietnam. She was always the master of her choice.


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