Losar antiphonal songsTshangla and Dakpa
Greeting, blessing and competitive teasing between two groups singing in alternation, with new verses fitted to a fixed tune and chhang passed through the circle.
कब गाया जाता है: New year, over several days.
इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Monpa & Tawang Belt · Eastern Himalaya & Brahmaputra Belt
लोकगीत
The songs of Tsangyang GyatsoTibetan
Love, longing and the difficulty of being what one is expected to be, in short quatrains attributed to the sixth Dalai Lama, who was born at Urgelling near Tawang. They circulate orally far beyond this valley.
कब गाया जाता है: Sung informally, everywhere.
Brokpa herding songsBrokpa
Weather, animals, distance and the long walk up. Sung unaccompanied in a high open voice because they were made to carry across a valley.
कब गाया जाता है: At the summer pastures.
Wedding negotiation songsTshangla
A sung exchange between the two families in which the groom's party has to answer for itself before being let in. Formalised argument, with the outcome never in doubt.
कब गाया जाता है: At the door of the bride's house.
Choskar field songsTshangla and Dakpa
Blessing of the standing crop, sung by the procession as it walks the field boundaries behind the monks and the volumes of scripture.
कब गाया जाता है: When the scriptures are carried around the fields.
Ajilamu song sequencesTshangla
Narrative and comic verse carrying the plot of the masked drama, alternating between sung passages and spoken exchanges.
कब गाया जाता है: With the masked play.
Monpa & Tawang Belt के लोकगीत — किस बारे में हैं, कौन गाता है और कब। (6)