Vietnamese music encompasses a broad range of musical traditions and styles from antiquity to the present day, and can also encompass multiple groups, such as those from Vietnam's ethnic minorities.
Performance of ca trù, a traditional genre of chamber music from northern Vietnam, inscribed by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009
A comedy theater in Tonkin during the Revival Lê dynasty
Drum from Sông Đà, Vietnam. Dong Son II culture. Mid-1st millennium BCE. Bronze.
Traditional orchestra performing at the Temple of Literature, Hanoi
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, is a country at the eastern edge of Mainland Southeast Asia. With an area of about 331,000 square kilometres and a population of over 102 millio
Music of Vietnam
…encompassed văn vũ (civil servant dance) and võ vũ (military dance). Dilettante music is a genre of chamber music in the traditional music of southern Vietnam. Its instrumentation resembles that of the ca Huế style. Sometimes, modified versions of European instruments like the guitar, violin, and the steel…
Capture of Saigon by Charles Rigault de Genouilly on 18 February 1859
The Grand Palais built for the 1902–1903 world's fair, when Hanoi became French Indochina's capital
First Nationwide Congress of Emulation Fighters, Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1952
Three US Fairchild UC-123B aircraft spraying Agent Orange during the Operation Ranch Hand as part of a herbicidal warfare operation depriving the food and vegetation cover of the Việt Cộng, c. 1962–1971