http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wovXWpI7CQs
Ritual Music of Tibetan Buddhism:
1.Ten Tha (Like Clouds).
2.Dham-Chen Choegyal (Kala-Rupa).
3.Neten Chudurk (16 Arahat Prayers).
4.Parchen Truk
PERFORMERS:
Monks of the Dip Tse Chok LIng Monastery
Cultural:
This is music which is performed inside of Buddhist Monasteries for prayer and meditation. The music is extremely repetitive and minimalist in its scope, suggesting its use to aid trance like meditation.
Orchestration:
Voice, Various percussive instruments
I was taken aback by the power of this music. I started listening to it thinking that I would never be able to get through the whole hour, but I soon found myself completely lost in the repetition or the motifs. THe performance is so authentic that you can even hear the acoustics of the Monastery when the percussion is played. This may be an impossible thing to replicate in the classroom, but a video such as this could be used to expose the students to this type of culture. The 4 pieces are also extremely contrasting, which caused me to buck some of my pre-conceived stereotypes about this type of music.
