Ancient and Oriental Music by Egon Wellesz

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III
THE MUSIC OF FAR EASTERN ASIA
2. OTHER COUNTRIES

By LAURENCE PICKEN

MONGOLIA

A CONSIDERABLE range of music recorded in eastern Mongolia has
been published in transcription. ¹^, ²^, ³ The tunes are mostly pentatonic,
with tetrachords consisting of a major second and a minor third.
Major third scales, in which the tetrachords each consist of a major
third with a minor second above, have been reported in melodies
from the Buryat Mongols, ⁴ but the material from eastern Mongolia
does not afford a single example of this type. The melodies are often
less than an octave in range and fall into two main groups: those in
free rhythm and those which are measured. The first type is illus-
trated by the following example for male voice from the Chipchin
tribe, 'Bargas' (an old tribal name) 'of the Holy Mountain'.²

Ex. 222

The second example, the 'Song of Chingis Khan'² (male voice) from
the Jalait tribe, is a symmetrical tune with a strong major flavour
imparted by the arpeggioed triad in the first bar ( Ex. 223 ).

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¹	N. de Torhout and Humbert-Sauvageot, "'Dix-huit chants et poèmes mongols'", Bibliothèque musicale du musée Guimet, 1^re série, iv ( Paris, 1937).
²	H. Haslund-Christensen and E. Emsheimer, The Music of The Mongols (Stockholm, 1943). Several small collections of Mongolian tunes have been published in China in recent years. The tunes are all of the measured, symmetrical type.
³	Chūichirō Takeda, "'Songs of the Mongols, Notations and Explanations'", Tōyō Ongaku Kenkyū, ix ( Tokyo, 1951), pp. 147-54, and x-xi ( Tokyo, 1952), pp. 67-73.
⁴	C. Stumpf, "'Mongolische Gesänge'", Sammelbände für vergleichende Musikwissen- schaft, i ( 1922), pp. 107-12.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Ancient and Oriental Music. Contributors: Egon Wellesz - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1957. Page Number: 135.

Title Page

The Volumes of the New Oxford History of Music

General Introduction

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction to Volume I

Acknowledgements

I Primitive Music

Ii the Music of Far Eastern Asia 1. China1

Introduction

Iii the Music of Far Eastern Asia 2. Other Countries

Iv the Music of India

Introduction

V the Music of Ancient Mesopotamia

Introduction

Vi the Music of Ancient Egypt

Introduction

Vii Music in the Bible

Viii the Music of Post-Biblical Judaism

Introduction

Ix Ancient Greek Music

Introduction

X Roman Music

Xi the Music of Islam

Bibliography

List of Contents of the History of Music in Sound Volume I

Index

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