In 840 AD, the ethnic structure on the Mongolian Plateau underwent major changes. The Uyghur Khanate was defeated by the Chigas people from the north. The Uyghurs left the center of the Mongolian Plateau and migrated westward and southward. The ancestors of Mongolia seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and bravely walked out of the primeval forests of the Greater Khingan Mountains and entered the heart of the Mongolian Plateau.

Since then, the Mongols have transformed from a hunting people into a nomadic people, and their lifestyle has undergone fundamental changes. Moreover, they gradually broke away from the mountain and forest hunting culture and entered the period of grassland nomadic culture.

Related to this, Mongolian music has also undergone tremendous changes. As the music of nomadic people, its basic style has changed to "long tune". The main music genres at that time included: long-key pastoral songs, "Chaoer" chorus, morinouqin, etc. For example, "Pastoral", "Little Yellow Horse", etc.

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Style characteristics of Mongolian music

Mongolian national music is basically composed of a pentatonic scale without semitones. Each of the five steps has a Any tone can be used as the main tone of the mode. Modes with Zhengyin and Yuyin as the main tones are more common. The tunes have great ups and downs, often with large jumps of six, seven, eight, nine, and ten degrees; the range is also wide, and a song often contains fourteen or five degrees, giving people a vast and unrestrained feeling and expressing the boldness of the Mongolian people. character traits.

The singing method is to use the real and false voices respectively, and due to the high pitch, the pitch is high-pitched, loud and full of variety. Singers often add some decorative sounds or decorative vibrato when singing long slow tones to create a lively mood or euphemistic style, and often end the sentence with a short upward glide after the long tones to make the tune soft and mellow.

In addition, there is a singing method called "Chaoer" in Mongolia, which is "Khumai". This method uses the air in the oral cavity to vibrate the vocal cords to produce a buzzing sound, and cleverly adjusts the gap at the tip of the tongue to select the different overtones it contains from the fundamental tone, thus forming a continuous low-pitched sound and continuously producing high-pitched sounds. District tunes.

Using this method of singing, you can clearly hear a person making two sounds at the same time, namely the melody in the high range and the sustained sound in the low range. However, this method is mostly performed by two people, that is, several people sing continuous bass and one person sings high-pitched tunes.

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