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• ClassicalZhungdraThe slow, sustained vocal style of Bhutanese court music — long melismatic phrases sung over a drone.
• Folk & WorldSherpa Folk MusicHigh-altitude vocal music of the Sherpa people of the Nepalese Khumbu region — two-part choir, foot-stomp, modest drum.
• Folk & WorldNepalese Folk MusicDiverse traditional musics of Nepal, varying by ethnic group and altitude band.
• ClassicalLhamo (Tibetan Opera)Tibetan opera: an outdoor sung-drama tradition with masked dance, drum-and-cymbal accompaniment and Buddhist narrative.
• Folk & WorldTibetan Folk SongsFolk-song traditions of the Tibetan plateau — herders, farmers and pilgrims, in open-throated high-register voices.

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