Dka’ thub sgrol ma is one of our project members, recorded eighteen songs inMa ru Township, Jone County, Kan lho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture?Gansu Province, PR China, during the summer of 2006. Here we present a sample of her recordings, focusing on working songs. All the songs presented here were sung by one female singer, Giritso (Gu ru mtsho, b. 1941).
Rdo rje rgyal has recorded these songs in Dkar lung TibetanVillage, Khams ra Township, GcantshaCounty, Rma lho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, PRC. On August 7th 2008, he recorded ten songs, including praising songs and wishing song. Below are three samples of his songs:
Project member ‘jigs med bzang po recorded these songs in four Tibetan villages: Thang long, Brag mda’, Go’u yis, and Rdu ma villages in Nyin mo Township, Brag mgo County, Dkar mdzes Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PRC. He recorded a total of nineteen songs, including dancing, herding, working, and wedding songs.
Project member Skyod pa skyabs recorded these songs in Dpon ru TibetanVillage, Zho ‘ong Township, Reb gong County, Rma lhao Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, PRC. During July 2008, he recorded sixteen songs, including praise and play songs.
During August 2008 Pad ma rdo rje recorded these songs in RdzastodTownship, (Khrid ‘dudCounty, Yul shul Prefecture, Qinghai Province, PR China). He recorded fourteen songs, which fell into folk, work, love, and religious song genres. Here we present three of those genres: religious, love, and working.
Melha recorded these songs during February 2007 in Rega Village, Hongyuan County, Aba prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR China. Please click on the three highlighted samples to listen and see the details:
These songs were recorded by Sgrolma Lhaskyid during June of 2007 in ThaRgyasVillage, RtsaZholTownship, MolGroGungDkarCounty, Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region. Most of her recorded songs were sung by Sgrol dkar (b. 1939) and Lha g.yag (b. 1933). The following are three samples of these two villagers’ songs. Please visit http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/music/thargyas/ to see the entire collection of Sgrolma Lhaskyid’s recordings from Tha Rgyas.
These songs were recorded by one of our project members, Dka’ thub sgrol ma, during August 2006, in Mido Village, Mari Township, Jone County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. Below, we present three types of songs: wedding, dancing, and drama.
Larong Awu, one of our members from Shangri-laCounty, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, also recorded some endangered Tibetan songs from his village.
Click the links below and listen to some songs recorded by him.
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