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What does Vietnamese song Thai song mean

Vietnamese song Thai song means Vietnamese music and Thai music.

1. Vietnamese music is mostly pentatonic without semitones, but also hexatonic and heptatonic. There are five tunings, often used interchangeably. Due to the six tones of the Vietnamese language, Vietnamese music is characterized by large intervals, a wide range and many glissandos. The music of its southern region is slightly different from that of the north.

2. Thai music means the traditional music of Thailand. The instruments and ensembles of Thai royal music are different from those of the West and are influenced by Khmer and Indonesian Gamelan.

The main percussion of the xylophone made of iron or wood, various sizes of gongs, khon, cymbals, etc. and Thai-style waist drums, the northern Thai round fat magic single double-sided drums oblong on the drum, ceramic drums, kalonka drums, elephant-footed drums, a variety of drums.

Various kinds of bamboo flutes such as Wicker, 6-hole Miao, various sizes of sheng, suona, strings such as erhu, three-stringed zither, Kachi-pipa plucked crocodile zither and dulcimer and the Lagenaria, which is adapted from the Indian vinayan zither.

Vietnam is a multi-ethnic country. In addition to more than 80 percent Kinh people, there are more than 60 ethnic minorities, and folk music is mainly folk songs.

Ballads are traditionally categorized as "say", "chant", "call" and "sing", "Slang", "song" 6 categories, of which only "singing" includes "Tao singing", "Jiao-sing", "Chun-sing", "Blind-sing", "Shan-drum", "Gong-do" and several others. The "Miyado" and other kinds of songs.

The most famous of these is the "Bei Ninh Gong Do", which has become an important source of modern Vietnamese music creation. Most of the ballads are sung by groups of men and women. The content of the ballads is mostly about sacrifices to gods, heaven, folk stories, love, labor songs, lullabies and so on.