What folk stories about music are there in Mongolia?

In 840 AD, great changes have taken place in the ethnic pattern of the Mongolian Plateau. The Uighur khanate was defeated by the Uighurs from the north, and left the center of the Mongolian Plateau and migrated to the west and south. Mongolian ancestors seized this golden opportunity and bravely walked out of the virgin forest of Daxing 'anling and entered the center of Mongolian Plateau.

Since then, Mongols have changed from hunter-gatherers to nomads, and their lifestyles have undergone fundamental changes. But also gradually separated from the mountain hunting culture and entered the period of grassland nomadic culture.

Related to this, great changes have taken place in Mongolian music. As nomadic music, its basic style has changed into "long tune". The main music schools at that time were: long-tune pastoral, "Chaoer" chorus, Ma Touqin and so on. Such as rural areas, small Huang Ma and so on.

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Style characteristics of Mongolian music

Mongolian folk music is basically composed of pentatonic scale, without semitones, and each tone in pentatonic scale can be used as the mode tonic. The modes with consonants and feathers as the main sounds are more common. The tune fluctuates greatly, often jumping six, seven, eight, nine and ten degrees; The vocal range is also very wide, and a song often contains 14 or 15 degrees, which gives people a feeling of being broad and unrestrained, and shows the uninhibited personality characteristics of Mongolian people.

Singing is the separation of true and false sounds. Because of its high pitch, it is more sonorous, loud and changeable. When singing long notes, singers often add some decorative tones or decorative vibrato to create a lively mood or euphemistic style, and often end the sentence with a short slide after the long notes to make the tune soft and mellow.

In addition, Mongolia also has a singing method called "Chaoer", namely "Humai". This method is to use the air in the mouth to vibrate the vocal cords to make * * * sounds, skillfully adjust the gap of the tip of the tongue, and choose different overtones from the pitch, thus forming a tune in the high-pitched area on the basis of bass continuity.

In this way, you can hear two kinds of sounds clearly at the same time, that is, the tune in the high-pitched area and the persistent sound in the low-pitched area. But this method is mostly two-part singing, that is, several people sing a continuous bass and one person sings a treble.

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