book chapter
Preliminary remarks on Mongolian musical instruments
music of the Mongols - - Eastern Mongolia. Reports from the scientific expedition to the north-western provinces of China under the leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin • (1) • Published In 1943 • Pages: 69-100 , plates
By: Emsheimer, Ernst.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study, based upon recordings made by Henning Haslund-Christensen, describes several types of Mongolian music and the various instruments employed in musical interpretation. The author defines the song-genre of the Mongols and gives examples of each category contained in musical folklore. The actual musical scale of the Mongols is explained. The instruments i.e. fiddle, zither, guitar, flute, used by modern Mongols are correlated with their nomadic mode of existence. The appearance, construction, and sound of these musical instruments are outlined by the author in some detail. Included in this article is a chart that lists songs according to tribe, tells how many strophes were recorded and published, and gives pertinent information about each song. The musical material referred to throughout the text has not, however, been reproduced for the Files. Photographs of Mongols playing their native musical instruments are included. HRAF pagination has been assigned to plates following the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- Musical instruments
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mongolia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- June Orloff ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-37
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936-1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Inner Mongolia, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Ernst Emsheimer
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongols--Music