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Playtime Festival, Mongolia's largest annual music festival. Largely unknown outside of Mongolia, there is a thriving popular music scene centred in the city of Ulaanbaatar. Actually, this is a mixture of various kinds of popular music. It is often subdivided into pop, rock, hip hop, and alternative (consisting of alternative rock and heavy metal).
In Mongolian, the instrument is usually called morin khuur [mɔrin xʊːr] or "horse fiddle". The full Classical Mongolian name for the morin khuur is morin toloğay’ta quğur, (which in modern Khalkh cyrillic is Морин толгойтой хуур) meaning fiddle with a horse's head. Usually it is abbreviated as "Морин хуур ...
The Mongolian long song folk music tradition has ties to other national traditions and customs, including Mongolian history, culture, aesthetics, ethics and philosophy. The main feature of the long song is the shuranhai (prolonged, tenuto notes with deeply modulated vibrato on the vowels ).
Aryun-Goa's music often incorporates elements of Buryat and Mongolian folklore and mythology. Her work has been praised for preserving and modernizing traditional cultural elements, making them accessible to contemporary audiences. By mastering throat singing as a woman, she has also challenged gender norms within traditional Buryat music.
Hanggai (Chinese: 杭盖乐队; pinyin: Hánggài Yuèduì) is an Inner Mongolian folk music group based in Beijing who specialize in a blend of Mongolian folk music and more modern styles such as punk rock. Their songs incorporate traditional folk lyrics as well as original compositions, and are sung in Mongolian and Mandarin.
Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa (Mongolian: Сэмбийн Гончигсумлаа; 1915-1991 [1]) was a Mongolian composer, generally considered [by whom?] to have been one of the greatest contributors to modern Mongolian national music and classical music. He is credited with being the first to write Mongolian ballet music. [2]
Namgar Lkhasaranova on stage in 2012. Namgar (Buryat: Намгар) is a 4-piece music group that performs traditional Buryat and Mongolian music.. Its leader Namgar Lhasaranova comes from the east borderland where three countries, Russia, Mongolia, and China meet.
In 2014, he chose the stage name Magnolian (a pun based on the similarity of the words "Mongolia" and "magnolia") to avoid being confused with another Mongolian artist who had the same name, Dulguun. [3] Magnolian's career in music began in 2015 when he performed as the only solo act at Mongolia's largest music festival, Playtime.