Mongolian folk music is basically composed of pentatonic scales without semitones, and each tone in the pentatonic scale can be used as the mode tonic. The mode with the consonant and feather as the tonic is more common. The tune fluctuates greatly, and it often jumps six, seven, eight, nine and ten degrees; The range is also wide, and a song often contains 14 or 5 degrees, which gives people a vast and unrestrained feeling and shows the uninhibited personality characteristics of the Mongolian people.

The singing method is to use the true voice and the false voice separately, and because of the high pitch, it is more sonorous, loud and varied. Singers often add some decorative tones or decorative vibrato when singing long notes, so as to create lively emotions or euphemistic styles, and often end sentences with short slips after the long notes, making the tunes soft and mellow.

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

By singing in this way, you can clearly hear a person making two sounds at the same time, that is, the tune in the high-pitched area and the sustained tone in the low-pitched area. However, this method is mostly sung by two parts, that is, several people sing a continuous bass and one sings a high-pitched tune.

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The development of Mongolian music

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the ancestors of Mongols lived in the Ergun River Basin, a virgin forest in Daxinganling, Inner Mongolia, and made a living by hunting and gathering. As a hunting nation, its basic style is "ancient short tune".

in 84 ad, the ethnic pattern on the Mongolian plateau changed greatly. The Uighur khanate was defeated by the Uighurs from the north, and the Uighurs left the center of the Mongolian Plateau and migrated westward and southward.

After liberation, the nobles and monks who lived at the top of society withdrew from the historical stage, and the rich herdsmen and ordinary herders formed new social relations in a brand-new way. The establishment of new social system, ideology and new political and economic system has changed the social and cultural life structure on which Mongolian long tune depends.

in the late 197s and early 198s, with the help of a more relaxed political and economic environment, the long tune was restored to some extent. The traditional way of life began to recover in the civil society, herdsmen began to sing the senior tune, many literary and art groups introduced outstanding folk singers to enrich the professional stage, and some art colleges and universities also set up long tune majors.

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