Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

Alain Desjacques a wellknown ethnomusicologist takes us on a pilgrimmage to find and record the best traditional musicians and singers on the steppes of Mongolia Desjacques had spent time in Mongolia ...

Students will be introduced to the music of Mongolia through several activities looking into different aspects of Mongolian music. Students will be introduced to the sound of the Morin Khuur ...

Explore rural nomadic life in Mongolia and the highly impressionistic music and arts of the Central Asian steppes. Students learn to imitate sounds of the natural environment through improvised dance, ...