How to sing vietnamese music

Question

since vietnamese is an atonal language

and sometimes you have con lam cai(higher) do( higher) roi(lower)

how would you sing vietnamese music i wonder becuase if vietnam could figure out how to sing an atonal lagnuage i am fascinated

Answer 1

Vee ann is absolutely right about the difficulty in writing songs in Vietnamese due to its being a tonal language.

Answer 2

I don't understand your question clearly because I'm not really good in English but I think I've got what you mean.

Is it you call Vietnamese is an atonal language because it has the accent marks? (con làm(lower) cái(higher) đó( higher) rồi(lower)

Because of the accent so it's a little harder to write the lyric for a Vietnamese song. With a sentence in English, you can sing it in different melodies. But in Vietnamese, the melody must match the accent of the words.

But it doesn't matter too much, cause we still have many many wonderful songs.

Here's one of the songs I think is the best Vietnamese song ever. It make me love Hanoi (Vietnam's capital) althought I've never been to Hanoi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5r1FKQwr...

Answer 3

Good answer veeann.  hard question to answer and yes there are many beautiful song in the Vietnamese Language. C