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Vietnamese National Anthem for String Orchestra
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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices."Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam. The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the reunification of Vietnam. Though it has two verses, only the first one is usually sung.
On 17 August, 1945, Hồ Chí Minh approved "Tiến Quân Ca" to be officially recognized as the anthem of the newly established Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
On 2 September, 1945, a parade was performed on the day of the Declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at Ba Đình Square by the Liberation Army band commanded by Đinh Ngọc Liên. A day before, musicians Đinh Ngọc Liên, Nguyễn Hữu Hiếu, and Văn Cao discussed changing the two words in "Tiến Quân Ca" in order to shorten the song by shortening the length of the first E pitches in the word "đoàn" and the F in the middle of the word "xác" to make the song more "snappy".
In 1946, the first National Assembly officially recognized "Tiến Quân Ca" as the national anthem. In Article 3 of the first Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, it stated directly about the national anthem. In 1955, the 5th session of the first National Assembly decided to invite authors to participate in another editing of the song. Văn Cao had regrets after this because the "heroic spirit" of the song had been lost after being edited.
After the fall of the government of South Vietnam, and on 2 July, 1976, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam agreed to be reunified into the new Socialist Republic of Vietnam. "Tiến Quân Ca" was chosen as the official National Anthem. In 1981, a contest was opened for a new national anthem but after more a year, it was and has never been mentioned again nor are there any official statement about the results. Thus, "Tiến Quân Ca" remains today as the national anthem of Vietnam.
