Mongolian Music Characteristics
Mongolian folk songs are famous for their grand and majestic voices and high and melodious tunes. Its content is very rich, there are depictions of love and marrying and marrying a daughter, there are praises of horses, grasslands, mountains and rivers, and there are also praises of grassland heroes and so on, and these folk songs vividly reflect the customs of the Mongolian society.
Categorizing Mongolian Music
Mongolian music is categorized according to the form of music, such as long tune, short tune, huomai, chaoer, folk song, rap form of uregel, narrative song, hollabao, etc. The content of the music is divided into hunting song, herding song and other songs. According to the content of the music, there are hunting songs, pastoral songs, hymns, homesickness songs, ritual songs and so on. Musical instruments that have been passed down to the Mongols include the horse-head qin, the sihu, the huibis, the huubis, the huubis, and other percussion instruments.
Long tune
Mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, in addition to the joint "heritage", China and Mongolia have committed to make the Mongolian long tune folk songs as soon as possible ten-year action plan to take protective measures. Sung in Mongolian, the words are few and long, high and far-reaching, soothing and free, suitable for narrative, but also long in the lyric, expressing the unique feelings of the children of the steppe. Long-key folk songs are accompanied by the horse-head fiddle, which has more flavor of the grassland culture. Long tunes are generally two lines each, and the singers play them according to the accumulation of life and the perception of nature, and sing them in different rhythms. Most of the lyrics are about grasslands, horses, camels, cows and sheep, blue sky, white clouds, rivers and lakes. The style of the long tune varies according to the region. The folk songs of the Xilingol Grassland have a long and loud voice, popularized by "Little Yellow Horse" and "Walking Horses". Hulunbeier grassland long tone folk songs are passionate and unrestrained, there are "vast grassland", "horse stealing girl" and so on. The folk songs of the Alashan area are slow in rhythm, and the popular ones are "Rich and Vast Alashan" and "Resignation", etc. The folk songs of the Keerqin Plateau are very popular. The folk songs of the horqin grassland are mainly lyrical, and the popular ones are "Homesickness Song" and "Mighty Horse". Zhaoda Grassland Folk Songs are popular, such as "Cuiling" and "Meng Yang". The long tone folk songs can be extended freely according to the singer's mood in some long tones, and they are characterized by vast, bold and rough grassland folk songs in terms of melodic style and singing. The liner notes of long-toned folk songs are "ta-ee", "ee-yo", "ee-yo", etc. The liner notes of the high notes are usually open. The soprano's liner notes are generally open or half-open; the alto's liner notes are more flexible, and the liner notes at the end are generally half-open or closed.
Short tunes
Short tunes were one of the earliest folk song genres developed. In the fertile Hetao Plain. The folk songs of the Tumecheon Plain and other agricultural and semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas of the autonomous region are all short-key folk songs. Short tune folk songs are also called climbing tune, mountain song, mostly sung in Chinese. Therefore, not only the Mongolians in the western part of Inner Mongolia like to sing it, but also the Han Chinese and people of other nationalities like to sing this kind of mountain song. Obviously different from the long folk songs, the short tune is generally two lines, rhyming two-stanza or four-stanza style, the beat is more fixed. The lyrics are simple, but not dull, and are characterized by the extensive use of superimposed characters in the rhyme scheme. The songs are often improvised and highly flexible. Love songs occupy a great proportion in short-key folk songs. For example, "Senjidma", "Dagura", "Little Lover", etc., profoundly reflect the Mongolian young men and women's desire for freedom and happiness. Secondly, the revolutionary folk songs reflecting the Mongolian people's resistance to invasion and exposing the evil deeds of the feudal ruling class, as well as the revolutionary folk songs produced in the revolutionary struggle, such as "Dokguilon", "Li Hongzhang who led the wolf into the house", "Anti-Japanese Song", etc., are the masterpieces of such short songs.
Humai
"Humai" is the Chinese translation of the Tuvan word xoomei, also known as "Hao Lin - Chao Er", which in its original meaning means "throat", i.e., "throat sound". "Throat singing, an overtone singing technique in which the throat is tightened to produce a "double voice". "Biphonic refers to the ability of a person to sing with two different voices at the same time. In addition, hula is also known as "Mongolian throat singing". Hula as a method of singing is currently practiced mainly in Inner Mongolia, China, and in the regions of Tuva, Mongolia, Altai and Khakass in Southern Siberia. The Gyuto and Gyume monasteries of the Tibetan Tantric Gelugpa sect also have a tradition of using a low guttural voice to chant mantras. "Hula, also known as "Hao Lin Chao Er", is a Mongolian polyphonic form of chor, a kind of "throat singing" art. Hula is an ancient way of singing, the voice comes out from the bottom of the throat and drills into a deep, deep tunnel, which is the memory of time. It is said that Khoomei has a history of thousands of years and now it is a national treasure of Mongolia, unique in the world. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, the Mongolian hula was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Chaol
Chaol is a general term for the Mongolian concept of polyphonic music, which refers to two or more polyphonic musical forms. There are the following forms of music: plucked Chaoer (Tubshuur); bowed Chaoer (directly called Chaoer in Horqin); throat singing Chaoer (also known as huomai); and Chaoerdol (a long song sung by one person accompanied by many people with their throat voices). Chaoer do is a type of Mongolian folk song that consists of two parts, namely, several people singing in the bass and one person singing a long song in the treble.
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