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What is the classification of Kazakh folk songs?

Traditional Kazakh folk songs can be divided into labor songs, hymns, love songs and folk songs.

According to the characteristics of music, Kazaks divide their folk songs into "An" and "Yue Lun". "An" means melody. This kind of songs have a beautiful melody and a wide range, and most of them take 24 or 34 beats as the beat, and the chorus structure is repeated in a single paragraph. The person who is good at singing "An" is called "An Qi"-a singer. Widely circulated, beautiful girls and swallows all belong to "An". On the Moon means poetry. More improvisation, more complex rhythm, melody close to intonation. The person who is good at singing Moon Lun is called Moon Lun Qi, a folk poet.