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Heard

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Dong Son bronze

practice · prehistoric–2nd century CE

Also called Dong Son drums, Đông Sơn bronze drums, Heger drums

Mainland ceremonial bronze of the Yunnan–Red River corridor: large tuned drums (Heger types and the related Wanjiaba/Shizhaishan series), known from surviving instruments and burial contexts. Living Mường Heger II rite (Muong bronze drum) is the named continuation of use in the same hill populations. Hood’s drum→gong→Munggang story leftover as the old hypothesized hop onto Javanese gamelan; later work doubts the empty centuries, and the edge is not drawn. Wanjiaba leftover as a contested earlier type inside this same drum complex, not a second parent. Highland Tai/Karen display leftover as later object-use of drums, not the Mường school. It is not a court gamelan, not a leftover “Asia” bin, and not Chinese Yayue. Nhã nhạc leftover as a later Vietnamese court job that hears yayue, not these drums.

Listen

  1. Heger Type I drum (Ngọc Lũ type) Dong Son bronze tradition (c. 2nd–1st century BCE) YouTube
  2. Heger bronze drum (ceremonial) Dong Son / mainland Southeast Asian (1st millennium BCE) YouTube

Passed on

Muong bronze drum practice · 4th century–

Heger Type I Dong Son drums and later Heger Type II drums occupy overlapping hill country south of the Red River.

Influence

Dong Son bronze → Muong bronze drum

instrumentationfunction and contextperformance practicestrength: mediumwell documented300–1800oralpatronage

Mechanism

Heger Type I Dong Son drums and later Heger Type II drums occupy overlapping hill country south of the Red River. The users remain Viet-Muong highland communities; Mường still sound Type II drums in funeral and festival rite (Nishimura). Strength medium. This is a named continuation of the bronze-drum job, not Hood’s empty-century hop onto Javanese gamelan, and not Nhã nhạc (a court suite that hears Yayue). Tai/Tày leftover as groups that did not keep this continuous use. Karen/Tai heirloom display leftover as object-use of drums, not this living Mường school.

Evidence

Nishimura’s ethnohistoric mapping of Heger types; ethnographic record of Mường Type II use (Cuisinier and later); Grove on mainland bronze drums.

Debate

Whether Type II is the same school or a later recast (Guangxi casting for highland patrons). The edge is continuity of use in the same hill populations, not identity of every workshop. Do not upgrade this into a parent of island gong-chime.

Mediators

community: Viet-Muong highland users of Heger drums