(ĐN)- A meeting to evaluate one-year implementation of the national action program to preserve the musical genre "Don ca tai tu" took place on Saturday in Ho Chi Minh city.
(ĐN)- A meeting to evaluate one-year implementation of the national action program to preserve the musical genre “Don ca tai tu” took place on Saturday in Ho Chi Minh city.
At the meeting, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and tourism Dang Thi Bich Lien asked the relevant sectors and agencies to complete the project to preserve and develop the musical genre “Don ca tai tu” by the first quarter this year.
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| A “Don ca tai tu” performance in Dong Nai |
She also stressed that, to date, “Don ca tai tu” is one of the nine Vietnamese intangible cultural heritages which was recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Last year, 21 provinces and cities nationwide worked together to organize successfully the first National Don Ca Tai Tu Festival in Bac Lieu. In addition each locality also launched campaigns to popularize the traditional musical art form of the South to their local people.
Currently, there are 8 out of 21 provinces and cities, including Dong Nai, to draft plans or complete the project to preserve and develop the musical genre “Don ca tai tu.”
“Don ca tai tu”, a musical art in southern Vietnam, known as a musical art that has both scholarly and folk roots, “it developed in southern Vietnam in the late 19th century.
It has been transmitted from generation to generation through official and unofficial forms of education. “Don ca tai tu” has continually been popularised through cultural exchanges among peoples.
The art form is played on a variety of different instruments including both traditional instruments such as ty ba (pear-shaped lute), tranh (16-string zither), bau (monochord), sao (bamboo flute), and the western instruments of violin and guitar.
Reported by S.T
