Traditional music of Mongolia
I wrote this brief overview in 1994, it
will be updated as and when I find the time
If you would like to comment, make any
corrections and add new insights, then please email me at
Also check out Carole Peggss excellent
book (2001)
Mongolian Music, Dance & Oral
Narrative (
Long Song (Urtyn
Duu) Short Song (Bogino Duu) Praise
Songs (Magtaal) Epics (Tuul) & Legends (Domog)
Khöömii
Mongolian Overtone Singing, Amaar Limbedekh (imitation of flute with the voice)
Instrumental Music of
Amaan Khuur
(sometimes Khel Khuur, Khel means tongue) Jews harps
Tömör Khuur
Khulsan Khuur (Bamboo Mouth Harp)
Morin
Khuur (horse head fiddle)
Tobshuur
(2 striing fretless plucked lute)
Limbe
(transverse mirliton flute)
Tsuur
(Three holed vertical end blown flute with vocal drone)
Yatag (half tube
plucked zither with movable bridges)
Shudraga or Shanz (Three
stringed fretless snakeskin lute)
Khuuchir and Dorvon Chikhtei Khuur (two and four stringed
spiked fiddle)
More
instruments and picture updates to be continued….
Here
is some information that I have found on the net.
Mongolian
Traditional Music adapted from Boris Avramets
Traditional
Songs and Dances of Mongolia by Ensemble Tumbash
INTRODUCTION
TO MONGOLIAN ART, FOLK TRADITION AND MUSIC
By
D. Shandagdorji, P. Khorloo,
Mongolian Music by the ENSEMBLE EGSCHIGLEN