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Mongolian Traditional Music

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The traditional music of the Mongolian steppe: the long song urtiin duu with its vast melismas, khöömii throat singing, the horse-head fiddle morin khuur and the epic and praise songs of nomadic life.

Mongolia and Inner Mongolia · emerged Ancient times · peak 20th century

Also called: music of mongolia

History

Herding culture produced music for open space — long songs across valleys, overtone singing imitating wind and water — and twentieth-century state ensembles and the post-1990 revival carried it to the world stage.

What it sounds like

Urtiin duu long song
Throat and overtone singing
Morin khuur horse-head fiddle
Themes of horses, nature and nomadic life

Beneath it: central asian throat singing, urtiin duu, zohioliin duu