ANU researcher discovers first music score of Vietnamese TΥ_i tφ__ music
While visiting a French museum in April this year, Le-Tuyen Nguyen, a Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the ANU School of Music, discovered a 113 year-old music score of Tài tφ__ music. 
The piece, titled Danse de L’Indo-chine (Indochina Dance) is the first Western music score of Tài tφ__ music, and was performed by a group of musicians from Indochina at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle (Paris World Fair).
Tài tφ__ music emerged in the nineteenth century and still has a strong connection with people’s lives in Southern Vietnam today.
The music score is a significant finding, as Tài tφ__ music will be examined by UNESCO in December this year to determine whether it can be classified as a Masterpiece of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The music was notated by Julien Tiersot, a prominent French musicologist of the nineteenth-century.
Le-Tuyen worked with Vietnamese scholars and a group of traditional musicians to recreate the music. The inaugural recreation of Danse de L’Indo-chine was performed at the Culture House in Ho Chi Minh City and subsequently in a concert series in Shanghai in July 2013.
The finding and subsequent performance received extensive media coverage in Vietnam – some examples of this are listed below.