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Throat singing of Tuva and Mongolia
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Throat singing of Tuva and Mongolia · On the steppes of Tuva and Mongolia, herders have been singing two notes at once for centuries. The singer holds a low fundamental note and, with throat, tongue and lips, shapes the overtones above it into a whistling melody. There are different styles: khoomei sounds soft, sygyt high and whistling, kargyraa deep and growling. The Tuvan group Huun-Huur-Tu, founded in 1992, combines these voices with the igil, a bowed instrument with strings of horsehair, and brought throat singing to stages all over the world.
Listening
Listening tip. Listen to the voice in Kongurei: can you hear a sustained low note beneath the melody, and sometimes a whistling overtone above it?
Kongurei · Huun-Huur-Tu, 1993
Alash Hem (The Alash River) · Kongar-ol Ondar, 2000
Jargalant Altai · Batzorig Vaanchig, 2022
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