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Mongolian
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MUSIC
Mongolian music is a reaction to our surroundings
and life. Caring for a baby provokes melody. Seeing a calf
being rejected, its mother is convinced to return by singing.
Seeing white gers spread across the green pasture inspires
a proud melody. Traveling a long way on horseback, riding
sets a pace, the pace delivers rhyme, and here again the song
is involuntary. Hurrying to one's beloved, the heartbeat composes
another melody. The sources of song are endless. Birthdays,
weddings, national holidays, winning a horse race or wrestling
competition, celebration of the elderly, mare's milk brewing,
wool cutting, cashmere combing, and harvest comprise an endless
chain of reasons for singing and dancing.
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