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The music of Mongolia is also rich with varieties related to the various ethnic groups of the country: Oirats, Hotogoid, Tuvans, Darhad, Buryats, Tsaatan, Dariganga, Uzemchins, Barga, Kazakhs and Khalha. Besides the traditional music, Western classical music and ballet flourished during the Mongolian People's Republic.
In Okinawa of Japan known as sanshin, in China as sanxian, in traditional Mongolian Shudraga and Vietnam known as đàn tam. Yatug-a zithers - a plucked zither which is used in two sizes nowadays: ( Master Yatug-a ) (Mongolian: ᠶᠠᠲᠤᠭ ᠠ ) - usually equipped with 21 strings, sometimes 23 strings.
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 ).
A number of folk metal and folk rock bands from Mongolia and the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia have combined heavy metal and rock music with traditional Mongolian lyrical themes and instruments, including the morin khuur; some of these bands include Altan Urag, Nine Treasures, Tengger Cavalry, Hanggai, the Hu, and Uuhai.
Mongolian traditional music groups (5 P) Pages in category "Mongolian traditional music" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Mongolian songs (3 P) T. Mongolian traditional music (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Music of Mongolia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Mongolia features a rich tradition of classical music and ballet.The classical music owes its prosperity in the 2nd half of the 20th century to a patronage of the then Socialist government that favoured Western and Russian/Soviet classical arts to Western pop culture.
The Uriangkhai called the tsuur the “Father of Music”. A three-holed pipe was in use in Mongolia in the 18th century and was believed to possess the magical properties of bringing lamb’s bones back to life. In the Jangar epic of the 14th century, the tsuur is said to have had a voice like a swan. This reference may also be indirectly a ...