What are the two types of Mongolian folk songs?

Mongolian folk songs are famous for their grand voices and melodious tunes. Its content is rich, including descriptions of love and marriage, praises of horses, grasslands and mountains and rivers, and praises of grassland heroes. These folk songs reflect Mongolian customs.

Mongolian long-tune folk songs are a unique singing form with distinctive nomadic culture and regional cultural characteristics. The Mongolian people's understanding of history and culture, humanistic customs, morality, philosophy and art is described in the unique language of grassland people.

La Su Rong, the master of Mongolian long tune art, said that in Mongolian, long tune is called "Wuri Tudao", which means Long song. As far as short songs are concerned, it is a long tune and a long history. According to textual research, long-tune folk songs have existed since the formation of Mongolians and have a history of thousands of years.

Long tune is a free translation of Mongolian language "Wuri Tingduo". "Five-Day Pavilion" means "Long" and "Eternity", and "Duo" means "Song". In related works and papers, it is also translated into long-tune songs, long-tune songs or pastoral songs. 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 long-tune lyrics describe grasslands, horses, camels, cattle and sheep, blue sky, white clouds and rivers and lakes.

The long melody is long and soothing, with broad artistic conception, many sounds and few words, long breath, and the melody is very decorative (such as leaning forward, backward, sliding sound, echo, etc.). ), especially the singing method of "Nogula" (Mongolian transliteration, zigzag or decorative sound) is the most distinctive.