Vietnamese song and Thai song refer to Vietnamese music and Thai music.
1. Vietnamese music is mostly pentatonic without semitones, but there are also six-tone and seven-tone scales. There are 5 modes, which are often used interchangeably. Due to the six tones of the Vietnamese language, Vietnamese music has the characteristics of large intervals, wide range, and many portamentos. The music of its southern region is slightly different from that of the north.
2. Thai music refers to the traditional music of Thailand. The instruments and ensembles of Thai royal music are different from those in the West and are influenced by Khmer and Indonesian Gamelang.
The main percussion instruments include xylophones made of iron or wood, gongs, kongs, cymbals, etc. of various sizes, as well as Thai-style waist drums and northern Thailand's round and fat magic single-sided double-sided drums. There are drums, pottery drums, kalonka drums, elephant foot drums, and all kinds of drums in shape.
Various bamboo flutes such as 筚, 6-hole seedlings, shengs of various sizes, suonas, string instruments including erhu and sanxian, Kaqi pipa with plucked crocodile harp and dulcimer, and adapted from Indian Uighurs. Naqin's harp.
Vietnam is a multi-ethnic country. In addition to more than 80 people from Beijing, there are more than 60 ethnic minorities. Folk music is mainly folk songs.
According to its traditional classification habits, folk songs are divided into six categories: "Shuo", "Yin", "Hu", "Singing", "Slang" and "Song". Among them, "Singing" alone includes "Tao" There are several types such as "Singing", "Jiao Singing", "Spring Singing", "Blind Singing", "Single Drum", "Miyato" and so on.
The "Bac Ninh Palace Door" is the most famous, and it has become an important source of modern music creation in Vietnam. The singing form of folk songs is mostly duet singing by male and female groups. The contents are mostly about worshiping gods and heaven, folk stories, love, labor chants, lullabies, etc.