chiwang
Illustration — Acho Namgyal playing piwang in 1937 The chiwang (Dzongkha: སྤྱི་དབང་; Wylie: spyi-dbang) is a type of fiddle played in Bhutan. The chiwang, the lingm (flute), and the dramyen (lute) comprise the basic instrumental. Although the chiwang is considered typically Bhutanese, it is a variety of the piwang, a Tibetan two-stringed fiddle.
chiwang
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- necked box lute played with a bow
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- Bhutan
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Illustration — Acho Namgyal playing piwang in 1937 The chiwang (Dzongkha: སྤྱི་དབང་; Wylie: spyi-dbang) is a type of fiddle played in Bhutan. The chiwang, the lingm (flute), and the dramyen (lute) comprise the basic instrumental. Although the chiwang is considered typically Bhutanese, it is a variety of the piwang, a Tibetan two-stringed fiddle.
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It is heavily associated with boedra, one of two dominant genres of Bhutanese folk music, in which it symbolizes a horse.
It is associated with Bhutan.
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- 1.Bigamudre Chaitanya Deva: Musical Instruments. National Book Trust, Neu-Delhi 1977, S. 101
- 2.Harvey Turnbull: A Sogdian friction chordophone. In: D. R. Widdess, R. F. Wolpert (Hrsg.): Music and Tradition. Essays on Asian and other musics presented to Laurence Picken. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981, S. 197–206, hier S. 197
- 3.Laurence Picken: Early Chinese Friction-Chordophones. In: The Galpin Society Journal, Band 18, März 1965, S. 82–89, hier S. 82–86
- 4.Alan R. Thrasher, Jonathan P. J. Stock: Huqin. In: Grove Music Online, 2001
- 5.Terence M. Liu: Instruments: Erhu. In: Robert Provine (Hrsg.): Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Band 7: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea. Routledge, New York / London 2001, S. 176
- 6.Andrea Nixon: Dörvön chikhtei khuur. In: Grove Music Online, 11. Februar 2013
- 7.Roger Blench: Cambridge, Dezember 2011, S. 29f
- 8.Curt Sachs: Die Musikinstrumente Birmas und Assams im K. Ethnographischen Museum zu München. In: Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-philologische und historische Klasse, 2. Abhandlung. München 1917, S. 24f
- 9.Curt Sachs, 1917, S. 24
- 10.Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Tsering Dhondup: Tibetan music. III. Traditional music. 1. Folk music. (iii) Song-and-dance. In: Grove Music Online, 2001
- 11.Mari Savolainen: Dunglen Lute Music and the Beginning of Popular Music in Amdo. The Sixth Nordic Tibet Research Conference, May 5–6, 2007. Helsinki University, 2007, S. 3
- 12.Projects. Tibetan Music Preservation. Classical traditional music from Lhasa
- 13.Drangyen and Chiwang (Traditional Lute and Fiddle). Bhutan Art Gallery (Abbildung: links chiwang, rechts dran-nye)
- 14.Music of the Bhutan. LP. Folkways Recordings (FE 4038), 1978. J. S. Szuszkiewicz: Text Begleitheft, S. 2
- 15.Bhutan Traditional Musical Instruments. Bhutan Tours, 22. September 2019
- 16.Jagar Dorji (Hrsg.): Intangible Cultural Heritage of Bhutan. Research & Media Division, National Library & Archives of Bhutan, 2015, S. 64, ISBN 978-99936-17-20-4
- 17.Sara Nuttal: Bhutan. 1. Non-ritual music. In: Grove Music Online, 2001
- 18.Mireille Helffer, Wolfgang Hauptfleisch: Tibet, Bhutan, Ladakh. III. Musik außerhalb der Klöster. 1. Lieder. In: MGG Online, November 2016
- 19.Six Musical Instruments of Bhutan on stamps – Bhutan 2017. stampdigest.in
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