Inner Mongolia high school students inherit the long tune! What do you know about this tradition?

Long tune is a traditional Mongolian vocal music, a song on the grassland and a song on horseback.

Mongolian long tune is a unique singing form with distinct nomadic culture and regional cultural characteristics. It tells the Mongolian people's understanding of history, culture and aesthetics in the unique language of grassland nationalities. It embodies the characteristics of Mongolian nomadic culture and is closely related to Mongolian language and literature. ?

Mongolian long-tune music is characterized by high pitch, wide range, beautiful and smooth melody, large fluctuation of melody, free and long rhythm, and mostly adopts compound beats. In music structure, paragraphs composed of upper and lower sentences are common, and there are also links composed of multiple paragraphs or even multiple paragraphs, mostly non-square structures. Write two more lines in the lyrics and repeat them with different rhymes. The combination of lyrics and songs is "more words and fewer sentences", which is often used to drag and drop the cavity and embellish the melody with various decorative sounds (Nogula). In addition to solo, there are chorus, duet, accompaniment and even "Chaoer" chorus. Mongolian long-tune folk songs are a form of Mongolian folk songs, which are divided into long-tune and short-tune. Long-tune folk songs have existed since the formation of Mongolians, and one of its major characteristics is that the words are few and the tune is long. According to the historical origin of Mongolian music culture and the present situation of music forms, long tune can be defined as a kind of folk song created by nomadic people in northern grassland in animal husbandry production and labor, and sung in wild grazing and traditional festivals. Generally, it consists of two lyrics. Singers play according to their own life accumulation and understanding of nature, and the rhythm of singing is different. Most of the lyrics of long tunes describe grasslands, horses, camels, cattle and sheep, blue sky, white clouds and rivers and lakes.

Long Tune is a lyric song, which consists of 32 melodies with a lot of decorative sounds. It praises the beautiful grasslands, mountains and rivers, praises the love and close friendship of parents, and expresses people's thinking about fate. It is characterized by the extensive use of decorative sounds and falsetto, including long and continuous flowing melodies with rich rhythm changes and improvisational forms with a wide range. The rhythm of ascending melody is slow and steady, and the descending melody is often inserted with lively three-tone repetitive sentences, which comes from imitating the rhythm of grassland life. The singing and creation of long tunes are closely related to the pastoral lifestyle of herders, and are still widely continued by Mongolians. ?

Abundant and Vast Alashan, Song of Drinking by turns, Chagan Tao Hai, Farewell and Peony Beam, Hulunbeier's Vast Grassland, Xilin Gol's Little Huang Ma and Walking Horse are popular in Horqin Grassland. ?