Ten famous Mongolian long tunes

The classic songs of Mongolian long tune include Zouma, Little Huang Ma, Vast Grassland, Vast and Rich Alashan, and Song of Drinking by turns.

1, Zou Ma

The creation of Mongolian long-tune folk songs is closely related to the pastoral lifestyle of herders, reflecting the Mongolian lifestyle that has continued to this day.

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 the accumulation of life and their understanding of nature. Most of the materials are about grasslands, horses, camels, cattle and sheep, blue sky, white clouds, rivers and lakes. The history, culture, humanistic customs and moral concepts of Mongolian people are described in the unique language of grassland people.

2. Little Huang Ma

Listening to a long-tune pastoral is like standing on the vast grassland and telling the experience to nature. As long as one person leads the long note and three or five people keep the bass tide, it will produce a solemn, grand and magnificent momentum. It realizes the perfect unity of image and artistic conception, man and nature, and also gives people a vast and unrestrained masculine beauty.

3. The vast grassland

Mongolian long-tune folk songs, as expressions related to grand celebrations and festival ceremonies, enjoy a unique and respected position in Mongolian society. Long Tune is a lyric song, which consists of 32 melodies with a lot of decorative sounds. High pitch, wide range, beautiful and smooth melody, large fluctuation of melody and free and long rhythm.

4. The vast and rich Alashan

Decorative sound and falsetto are widely used, and the long and continuous flowing melody contains rich rhythm changes, extremely wide range and improvisation forms. 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 the cavity, embellish the melody with colorful colors and various decorative sounds (Nogula).

5. "Wine to Song"

Under this historical background, short-tune ballads and long-tune rap songs have been further developed, forming the musical and cultural period of Mongolian farmers and herdsmen. Mongolian long-tune folk songs in this period maintained their own characteristics and became more mature.