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| | EOL 5 reviews: Mongolian CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The liner notes, written by Haruo Hasumi, paint an idyllic picture of life in Mongolia where time is occupied with herding and with song to coax female animals to nurse their young. |
 | | To his credit, Hasumi does mention that the musical landscape of Mongolia, particularly in Ulaanbaatar, has been touched by some eighteenth and nineteenth century "Western" composers, such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky, and that only since Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet regime has an interest in folk culture been revived. |
 | | Furthermore, Hasumi gives no hint that there are at least six different styles of köömiy: tseedjnii köömiy (mentioned above), bagalzuuriin köömiy (which has a rough drone and a mid-range harmonic), and kharkhira köömiy (characterized by its extremely low drone), to name a few. |
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