Characteristics of Inner Mongolia Songs

Mongolian folk songs from the musical characteristics, roughly divided into "long tone" and "short tone" two categories.

1, long tone folk songs. Long tune folk song is reflecting the Mongolian nomadic life of the pastoral genre, there are more grown-up length, free rhythm, breath wide, deep emotion, and unique and delicate vibrato decorations. Long-key folk songs are sung in Mongolian, and their rhythm is soothing and free, with fewer words and longer cadences, and different styles depending on the region.

2. Short-key folk songs. Obviously different from the long folk songs, the short folk songs are shorter and smaller in length, with compact tunes, neat and distinctive rhythms, and relatively narrower ranges. The short tunes are generally two lines long, with two or four rhyming stanzas, and the beat is relatively fixed. Lyrics are simple, not dull, characterized by the extensive use of superimposed characters in the rhyme. Short folk songs are popular in the semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas where the Mongols and the Han Chinese live side by side. They are often improvised and highly flexible.

Popular "Xiba Lama", "Genghis Khan's two green horses", "wine mellow such as fragrant honey", "pull the camel's brother twelve genera" and so on. Short-key folk songs are popular in the fertile Hetao Plain. The folk songs of Tumecheon Plain and other agricultural and semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas of the autonomous region are all short-toned folk songs. Short-key folk songs are also called mountain-climbing tunes and mountain songs, and are mostly sung in Chinese.

Expanded Information:

Mongolian folk songs have been the foundation of Mongolian musical culture and the mainstay of Mongolian literature and art as a whole for quite a long period of history. Living by water and grass is the traditional way of life of the Mongols and the basis of nomadic culture. Mongolian folk songs are the most vivid, simple and popular form of music. A history of Mongolian music is, in a sense, a history of Mongolian folk songs.

Famous Mongolian songs include "Gadamerin", "Danabala", "Pastoral", "Wanli", "Golden Cup", "Senjidma", "Sansaima", "Noengya", "Red Wine", "The Four Seas", "Walking Horses", "Little Yellow Horses", "Vast Prairie", "The Vast Rich Alaska", etc. The Mongolian folk songs are the most vivid, simple and popular form of music, and a history of Mongolian music is, in a sense, a history of Mongolian folk songs.

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