Ca Trù Singing docx

Ca Trù Singing Ca Tru music sounds strange to the uninitiated. Clicks and clacks accompany the centuries old ballads. It is not the kind of music that inspires toe tapping or humming. Ca Tru was popular with the royal palace and a favorite hobby of aristocrats and scholars. The Phach Ca tru requires at least three performers. The singer is always a woman and plays the phach, an instrument made of wood or bamboo that is beaten with two wooden sticks . A woman and plays the phach A musician accompanies the singer on the Dan Day, a long-necked lute with three silk strings and 10 frets. There is also a drummer or Trong Chau Praise drum Instrument of Ca Tru Instrument of Ca Tru Cheo Opera A plays of Cheo opera Cheo is a form of popular theatre in Vietnam that has its roots in ancient village festivals. It is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam. [...]... of romance, tragedy and comedy A Cheo play could be put on stage in a large theater, but it could also be performed successfully on one or two bed mats spread in the middle of a communal house with a cast of only three: a hero, a heroine and a clown Instrument of Cheo Praise drum Bamboo Flute Two-string Fiddle Two-String Guitar . Ca Trù Singing Ca Tru music sounds strange to the uninitiated. Clicks and clacks accompany the centuries. music that inspires toe tapping or humming. Ca Tru was popular with the royal palace and a favorite hobby of aristocrats and scholars. The Phach Ca tru requires at least three performers and 10 frets. There is also a drummer or Trong Chau Praise drum Instrument of Ca Tru Instrument of Ca Tru Cheo Opera A plays of Cheo opera Cheo is a form of popular theatre in