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  Music of Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mongolia is a nation located in Asia, and its people form a distinct ethnic group composed of several smaller tribes and clans.
In Mongolia, Communist control led to the forced cultural domination of the Khalkhas, who are the largest ethnic group in the country.
UNESCO proclaimed the traditional music of the moriin khuur a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on November 7, 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Mongolia   (511 words)

  
 Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mongolia (Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked nation in central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
The 18th largest country in the world by area, Mongolia has very little arable land: much of its area is grassland, with mountains in the north and west and the Gobi Desert in the south.
The Manchu conquered Inner Mongolia in 1636 and Outer Mongolia in 1691.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongolia   (1347 words)

  
 Music of Inner Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inner Mongolia is a province of China, with traditions related to Tuvan music and Mongolian music.
Musically, it is known for the Han shanxi opera tradition.
Musical institutions include the China Inner Mongolia Nationality Music and Dance Opera Troupe and the Morin Khuur Society of China.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Inner_Mongolia   (180 words)

  
 Mongolian Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Traditional music was influenced deeply by the lifestyles and economy, as well as by the beliefs of the Mongols.
Many specific features of Mongolian music the way the sound is produced vocally, the timbre and coloring of the sound, the way musical instruments are played all of this is determined by the close relationship of music to the natural environment and by the Mongol's notions about the essence of music and its purpose.
Music, and singing in particular, is an obligatory component of most of the actions in traditional Mongolian society.
www.greenkiwi.co.nz /footprints/mongolia/mong_music.htm   (1591 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Mongolia
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked nation in central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
Mongolia is spilt in to 22 Aymags, Ulaanbaatar (the capital) is a municipality.
Mongolia's economy is centered on oil, coal, and copper, with smaller industries in molybdenum, tungsten, and phosphate mining.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mongolia   (984 words)

  
 Inner Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Inner Mongolia is contrasted with Outer Mongolia which was used by the Republic of China and previous governments to refer to is covered today by the independent nation Mongolia plus the Russian -administered Tannu Tuva.
Present-day Inner Mongolia then part of Manchuria came under the control of the puppet state Manchukuo in 1931 and was administered thus until the of the war in 1945.
In general the climate of Inner Mongolia is continental with long winters and sharp temperature in spring and fall.
www.freeglossary.com /Inner_Mongolia   (1208 words)

  
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Mongolia was distinguished among Asian countries, and the epics "Geseriada" and "Jangar" ranking with supreme world poetry such as the "Illiad" and "Odyssey" of Greece, and the "Mahabharata" and "Ramayana" of India, were created.
There are in Mongolia a number of already-established schools of Mongolian long song in certain local regions.
Mongol khoomi is a musical art to be delivered with the help of a guttural voice and specific way of breathing.
www.indiana.edu /~mongsoc/mong/artmusic.htm   (1354 words)

  
 Mongolia - Gurupedia
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked country in
In the 13th century, Mongolia was part of the Mongol Empire.
Mongolia's economy is centered on oil, coal, and copper, with smaller industries in
www.gurupedia.com /m/mo/mongolia_(country).htm   (441 words)

  
 Mongolia Sings its Own Song | Mongoluls.Net
In exchange for the state government's granting of musical instruments, rehearsal and performance spaces, and concert and touring opportunities, the early bands were closely watched, their actions restricted by suspicious government officials.
The music would be recognized in the West as techno, hip-hop, and pop along the lines of the Backstreet Boys, Celene Dion and the Spice Girls, and is almost always electronically produced in recording studios and then backgrounded to the singers and dancers themselves on stage with the use of a tape player.
While not new to Mongolia, pop-rock's growing diversity certainly is. The general feeling these days seems to be one of celebration of its freedoms and appreciation of its diversity, without the isolation of audiences into genres that is typical in the West.
mongoluls.net /ger/sing.shtml   (2522 words)

  
 Juulchin Tourism Corporation of Mongolia | Mongolia | Traditional music and dancing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mongolians have made their music through the ages using metal, stone, bamboo, leather and wood.
The most popular musical instrument is the Morin Huur (the horse fiddle) which is said to represent the movement and sounds of a horse.
The scenery, opening, inaction, musical climax and outcome of Tsam dance reflect the character of the participants in different ways: cruel, calm or humorous.
www.juulchin.com /mongolia/music.htm   (427 words)

  
 Visit Mongolia - Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In Mongolia at the time of the communist takeover in 1921, there were 110,000 lamas (monks) living in about 700 monasteries.
There's a significant minority of Sunni Muslims in the far western regions of Mongolia, most of whom are ethnic Kazaks.
Mongolia's paintings, music and literature are dominated by Tibetan Buddhism and nomadism.
www.visitmongolia.com /culture.htm   (506 words)

  
 Kazakh Adoptive Families: Music
Any music that I have been able to find through Barnes and Noble or iTunes is on Music Page2.
Musical heritage of Kazakhstan is a project of the Ministry of Culture in Kazakhstan to preserve traditional Kazakh music.
It is usually made of reed or wood, rarely of metal in the form of two small wooden flutes put together with hollow sides inside and fastened with a thread.
kazakhadoptivefamilies.com /music.html   (1344 words)

  
 EGSCHIGLEN. (Mongolia) El Espíritu del Sur
From the very beginning, the musicians are focusing on contemporary music of Mongolia and searching systematically for the sound dimensions of this repertory with their traditional instruments and the central asian vocal technics.
The music of a country is formed by its landscape and the way of life of its people.
Mongolia, in the heart of Asia, is a vast country, roughly five times the size of Germany.
www.espiritudelsur.com /grupos/egschiglen_eng.htm   (773 words)

  
 Mongolia: Living Music of the Steppes CD - MCM-3001
Instrumental music and song from the nomadic shepherding peoples of Mongolia.
With song specifically directed to coax and sooth the herd, music and dance are interwoven with the survival and livelihood of the people.
Highlights from this collection by fieldworker Haruo Hasumi include numerous traditional urtun duu (long songs) and 8 examples of koomiy, a form of vocal instrumentation where the glottis is utilized to produce two simultaneous tones.
www.worldmusicstore.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=31   (118 words)

  
 Mongolia - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mongolia (Khalkh Mongol: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked nation in central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
Before the 13th century, the land of Mongolia was occupied by various nomadic tribes.
Mongolia was aligned closely with the Soviet Union.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Mongolia   (1251 words)

  
 SIT Study Abroad - Mongolia: Culture and Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Through previous research, I had discovered the ICES as a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of traditional music, an organization also interested in bringing different types of foreign music to Mongolia as well as sharing Mongolian music with the world.
During my time in Mongolia, I have been lucky enough to meet and perform with some of the new Mongolian jazz groups in Ulaanbaatar on a regular basis, in different restaurants and clubs throughout the capital city.
My time in Mongolia has taught me the importance of learning and sharing different cultures with the world, and I can think of no better way to start doing this than through the medium of music.
www.sit.edu /studyabroad/asia/mongolia_student_essay.html   (1659 words)

  
 CDeMUSIC
The issues includes a companion CD of Tudor's music, produced by Ron Kuivila, that includes Anima Pepsi (1970), Toneburst (1975), and Dialects (1984), all three of which are here released for the first tiime.
Music by Leon Biriotti, Jose Augusto Mannis, Carlos Vasquez, Roberto Morales-Manzanares, Pablo Freire, Andres Posada, Adina Izarra, Ricardo Dal Farra.
Music by Alexander Abramovitch Krejn, John Cage, Paul De Marinis, Robert Ashley, Cornelius Cardew, Henning Christiansen, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Alvin Lucier, Peter Cusack and Nicolas Collins, Shelley Hirsch, Frieder Butzmann, Oval / Markus Popp, and Michael Snow.
www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=lmjvolumes   (1483 words)

  
 Tsagaan Sar, White Moon (Traditional and Popular Music from Mongolia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mongolia is hardly a hot bed in the world music scene.
The gentle melodies, heart-felt singing, and other-worldliness of the music of this disc give it immediate appeal to anyone interested in seeing what other cultures create in their desire to sing the stories of their people.
And, given the common ground much of this music has with styles more familiar to Western audiences, Tsagaan Sar would be a good place for a fan of "world-music" to begin the search towards "humanity-music", a search well worth taking.
www.greenmanreview.com /mongolian_music.html   (451 words)

  
 World History - The Mongols - Identifying the Common Structural Features of Stringed Musical Instruments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Use as references The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan catalogue.
Music is a universal means of expression more in terms of its technical production than in the precise outcome of its sounds.
Musical style is typically a reflection of artistic and cultural needs and interests; it is not, in and of itself, a matter of "good" or "bad".
www.woodrow.org /teachers/world-history/teaching/mongol/music.html   (651 words)

  
 Gil Asakawa's Nikkei View   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I was lucky enough to be on hand for a short concert by Winds of Mongolia, a group well-known in its native country as cultural ambassadors to the rest of the world.
The two have since visited Mongolia, a longtime province of China and a Soviet state for much of the last century that is still in the process of joining the contemporary global community.
The music was gorgeous, and intricately played; it was a treat to watch the group members weaving their instruments together.
nikkeiview.com /archives02/022502.htm   (1117 words)

  
 Ethnic Music From The Land of Ghengis Kahn - Folk Music of Mongolia by Various Artists at Audio Lunchbox
1: Ethnic Music From The Land of Ghengis Kahn - Folk Music of Mongolia - "Uzesgelen Ua"
4: Ethnic Music From The Land of Ghengis Kahn - Folk Music of Mongolia - "Zamba Tiv" (2)
10: Ethnic Music From The Land of Ghengis Kahn - Folk Music of Mongolia - "Urt Sajham Huren"
www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=4115   (231 words)

  
 Ensemble Temuzhin: The Music of Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When a stag had lost his hind and grieved for her the whole region of the Khan Khökhii mountains, the land, the mountain peaks and even the river mourned with him.
This melody is devoted to the queen Mandukhai, the young wife of king Manduul, who reigned Mongolia from 1463 until 1467.
The eighth Bogd Javzandambu (Agvaanluvsan) khutagt was the secular and religious ruler of Mongolia from the 29th of December 1911 until the people's revolution in 1921.
www.deepdownproductions.com /artists/Tumbash.shtml   (1300 words)

  
 e-Mongol.com - Culture of Mongolia
Ascendancy of Tibetan Buddhism and nomadism is visible in Mongolia's paintings, music and literature.
Traditional music and dance performances are not complete without a touch of contortionism, an ancient Mongolian body art.
He ordered that all government houses, ministries, the army and monasteries keep this flag raised outside their compounds from the 30th day of the last month of winter to the 15th day of Tsagaan Sar.
www.e-mongol.com /mongolia_culture.htm   (1922 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cross together the music of the indigenous people of the Americas with Celtic and Northern Chinese (and roughly in that ratio) and you have Mongolian music.
The recording is superb, the liner notes are thorough (if somewhat awkward in their translated form), and the photos are suitable cheesy enough (there is an overtly strong tendency to photograph Mongolian musicians in their most outlandish formal costumes, as opposed to their everyday clothes) to call this a masterpiece of the genre.
I'm very biased towards the music of Mongolia; it is a tradition that has great breadth, rings familiar in a multitude of ways, and yet is obviously original (and anciently so at that).
www.greenmanreview.com /mongoliantrad.html   (894 words)

  
 Music in Mongolia by Philip Marsden | Travel Reviews from Travel Intelligence
Song is a constant, the glue that binds the quotidian to the transcendent.
Despite decades of Soviet-sponsored rule, Mongolia remains at heart a pastoralist society, one of the last genuine examples on earth.
Drumming and song were at the core of traditional shamanic ritual, used first for invocation (often in well-practised, rhyming couplets) then in improvised verses describing the meanderings of the visiting spirit.
www.travelintelligence.net /wsd/articles/art_3112.html   (777 words)

  
 MusicDish Industry e-Journal
World music is the one genre that deserves greater financial rewards than ANY other.
Perhaps like many of you, this is my first excursion into the music of Mongolia, and it shan't be my last.
Mongolia is in the heart of Asia, being 5 times the size of Germany.
www.musicdish.com /mag/index.php3?id=3906   (925 words)

  
 Mongolia: Living Music of the Steppes - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Multicultural Media has been releasing relatively exceptional albums of international traditional musics in recent years, and this installment for Mongolia is no exception.
The album covers the ensemble music and song of Mongolia, with various bogino duus (short songs) as well as urtin duus (long songs) showcasing the pastoral style of music enjoyed by the Mongolians.
Overall, the album is an exceptional reprise, if a short one, of Mongolian music, and should be checked out by anyone with a leaning towards the Central Asian sound, though it can range from overly complex to drab for the uninitiated.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,289962,00.html   (350 words)

  
 www.throatsinging.co.nz
Altai-Hangai is a Mongolian musical group that fuses the sounds of traditional throat-singing and horse-head fiddle with contemporary forms of jazz.
Many good teachers (of traditional music) died during that time and now we are the beginners of the new time.
Mongolian audiences describe their emotions by clapping (during the music) and there is a lot of interaction and it gives is a lot of energy.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /janetg/webwork/throatsinging/features.html   (1017 words)

  
 Mongolia - Time - Weather - Coins - Hotels - Music
The Palace Hotel located in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, welcomes you - the worldwide traveler to its renovated facilities.
The Palace Hotel is conveniently situated among a number of city tour attractions of Ulaanbaatar, including the Bogd Khaan Palace Museum, Naadam Stadium and Zaisan Hill, all of which are located within a few minutes walk.
Bayangol Hotel of Mongolia is situated in the heart of Ulaanbaatar city, capital of Mongolia.
www.exxun.com /Mongolia/k_lk.html   (344 words)

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