Topics of Speaking skill VIII. Mongolian music and fine art
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Mongolian music and fine art Music. A key element of traditional Mongolian music is the Long Song form. Each syllable of each word is drawn out or extended for a long duration. One four-minute song, for example, might only have 10 words, but each syllable of each word is prolonged, with vibrato on the vowels. The long vibrating notes gives these songs a deeply meditative quality that carries over the grand distances of the steppes. Mongolian songs express the singer’s deep feelings for their horses, natural beauty, love of family or the nomadic life. Long songs may be accompanied by the other key element of Mongolian traditional music, the Morin khuur or horse-head fiddle. These two-string fiddles have elaborately carved horses’ heads crowning the fiddle. The Morin khuur can sound the deep tones of the cello or it can emulate the neighing of a Mongolian horse. Khoomii – throat singing, is a type of singing found nowhere else in the world. The khoomii is the art when a skillful singer who produces several notes at once from deep in the throat. The hoomii is widely used for describing sounds of nature, singing praises and folk songs. Fine Art. Historical and cultural monuments on and under the ground of central Asia are mirrors of the wisdom and rich cultural heritage of our ancestors. Rock and cave pictures found in Dundgobi, Uvurkhangai and Khovd aimags indicated that this art was flourishing in Mongolia at the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. The paintings of the 13 th and 14 th centuries reflect mainly the nomadic lifestyle, wars and nature, though portraiture began to flourish. From the 15 th century, religion (especially yellow Lamaism) began to dominate painting. Mongolian paintings began developing in the two major directions of iconography and genre painting, depicting simple life and ordinary people. B.Sharav was a painter whose art linked the old and the new. The way of life is most famously depicted in his One Day in Mongolia. The new social system which emerged with the 1921 Revolution produced art dedicated to promoting that system. Mongolian artists became acquainted with European painting and began using both Mongolian and western styles.
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Mongolian music and fine art
Music. A key element of traditional Mongolian music is the Long Song form. Each syllable of each word is drawn out or extended for a long duration. One four-minute song, for example, might only have 10 words, but each syllable of each word is prolonged, with vibrato on the vowels. The long vibrating notes gives these songs a deeply meditative quality that carries over the grand distances of the steppes. Mongolian songs express the singer’s deep feelings for their horses, natural beauty, love of family or the nomadic life.
Long songs may be accompanied by the other key element of Mongolian traditional music, the Morin khuur or horse-head fiddle. These two-string fiddles have elaborately carved horses’ heads crowning the fiddle. The Morin khuur can sound the deep tones of the cello or it can emulate the neighing of a Mongolian horse.
Khoomii – throat singing, is a type of singing found nowhere else in the world. The khoomii is the art when a skillful singer who produces several notes at once from deep in the throat. The hoomii is widely used for describing sounds of nature, singing praises and folk songs.
Fine Art. Historical and cultural monuments on and under the ground of central Asia are mirrors of the wisdom and rich cultural heritage of our ancestors. Rock and cave pictures found in Dundgobi, Uvurkhangai and Khovd aimags indicated that this art was flourishing in Mongolia at the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. The paintings of the 13 th and 14th
centuries reflect mainly the nomadic lifestyle, wars and nature, though portraiture began to flourish. From the 15th century, religion (especially yellow Lamaism) began to dominate painting.
Mongolian paintings began developing in the two major directions of iconography and genre painting, depicting simple life and ordinary people. B.Sharav was a painter whose art linked the old and the new. The way of life is most famously depicted in his One Day in Mongolia. The new social system which emerged with the 1921 Revolution produced art dedicated to promoting that system. Mongolian artists became acquainted with European painting and began using both Mongolian and western styles.
In the 1950s, many genres of fine art, carpeting and porcelain were introduced, when a number of artists and architects became noted for their thematic work. They included painter O.Tsevegjav for his animals, U.Yadamsuren for workers, N.Chultem and G.Odon for history and everyday life, L.Gavaa for nature, and architect S.Choimbol for monuments. In the 1960s there was a great artistic change, as artists began to reject linear perspective and colour harmony and began to work with more modern styles, themes and content. Such notable art works include U.Yadamsuren's The Old Horse-fiddler, A.Sengetsokhio's The Mongol Lady, B.Avarzed's Uurgach, and Ts.Minjuur's Caravan Guide.
At present, new and different artistic trends are emerging, and creative young painters like as S.Sarantsatsralt, Do.Bold, J.Munkhtsetseg and D.Tengisbold are developing modern Mongolian art.
