Kirgiz folk songs are classified according to content, including resistance songs, labor songs, custom songs, love songs and new folk songs. Customary songs are divided into cradle songs, game songs, marriage songs, wedding songs, farewell songs, welcome songs, mourning songs, etc. Folk poems are all metrical poems with rhymes.

Their music is divided into two categories: one is the soundtrack with lyrics; the other is the performance music without lyrics. Epics, narrative poems, folk songs, etc. generally have accompanying music. The soundtrack expresses the content of the lyrics. When the content changes, the soundtrack also changes. For example, the soundtrack of "Manas" is sung when the hero Manas is born, and the melody is similar to a lullaby; when it is sung when Manas goes to war, the melody is unrestrained and heroic; when it is sung until Manas is injured and dies At that time, the soundtrack was very sad.

The Kyrgyz people’s lyrics-free music can be divided into big songs and small songs. The major songs include "Kubar Khan", "Karezi Song", "Shenggerema", "Butoy", "Kairbez", "Hunter Song", "Kapaltu", "Zheti" "Kul" (Seven Slaves), "Gazigayike", "The Lion and the Cuckoo", "Zoru Ayrek", "The Black Horse", etc.

The ditties include "Kawuzibashi", "Chuokouyi", "Sekatebai", "Komzumu", "Botomu", "Black Eyeball", "Kelmaitao", "Kachiken", etc. "Kubal Khan" consists of dozens of movements and is very grand in scale.

What Daqu and Xiaoqu describe include the labor production of farmers, herdsmen, and manual workers, the history and customs of the nation, the heroic deeds of heroes, the mountains, rivers, and grasslands of their hometown, and the nation. There is also the friendship among people and the struggle of the people against the exploiting classes such as the Bayi and foreign invaders.

Kirgiz music, especially those without lyrics, is generally relatively free in rhythm and has the characteristics of being open and long. Kirgiz music also makes extensive and fluent use of vocal music. Vocal music mostly consists of a pure fifth and fourth, and also uses triads. This phenomenon is particularly prominent in the performance of folk songs. Sometimes in the decorative phrases, you can also see the harmonies of the main key and the pure fourth or sixth interval.

However, the entire music structure of the Kirgiz ethnic group is still based on seven-level whole-syllable harmony. These musical characteristics of the Kirgiz ethnic group highlight their grassland characteristics and national style.