Talk with The Six Tones

Fri 21 Jul 2017, 10.30 am
Puppets cafe
27 lane 189 Giang Vo, Hanoi

From the organizer:

We would like to invite you to join an artist talk by The Six Tones.

The name of the group, emanating from a piece by Henrik Frisk, relates to the fact that the Vietnamese is a tonal language using six tones or intonations. For the Vietnamese members of the group, the six tones of their language is a foundation for communication within their culture. For most Westerners, such a language can only be learned with much effort.

Traditional Vietnamese music is closely related to theatre and its musical forms draw highly on the tonal structure of the language. Obviously, a text set to music cannot have any melodic structure but the melodic lines must follow the tones that give the words their meaning. Hence, the six tones of the language also signify the musical quest that a cross cultural learning situation implies: to negotiate musical meaning beyond the foundations of a single culture.

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A contemporary concert featuring The Six Tones will take place on the night of July 24 at Manzi Art Space.