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Task I Listen to the music and guess the instrument

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is the musical emblem of Mongolia.
The neck ends in a carved horse's head. The neck goes through a trapezoid sound box, traditionally covered with an animal skin, which is often painted green and decorated with colorful motives. 
Also characteristic of the aesthetic design are the two long pegs for tuning the horsehair strings. Nowadays the sound box is entirely made of wood and sound holes are cut in the  soundboard. Synthetic material, is now often used instead of horsehair.

(such as the Tuvin igil, the Kazakh kobyz).
It is to be noted that the gusle from Southeastern Europe (Serbia, Croatia & Albania) is a very similar instrument.
It may indicate this is an extremely ancient instrument perhaps dating back to the migration of people out of the Middle East and Central Asia some 40,000 years ago.
Often these instruments are depicted with a goat head instead of a horse in Europe.

a shepherd named Namjil the Cuckoo received the gift of a flying horse; he would mount it at night and fly to meet his beloved. A jealous woman had the horse’s wings cut off, so that the horse fell from the air and died. The grieving shepherd made a horsehead fiddle from the now-wingless horse's skin and tail hair, and used it to play poignant songs about his horse.
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in isolation in the wide-open space. Singing and oral literature have an important place in their culture, and an accompaniment is often provided by a fiddle.

Moreover, the morin khuur, which is a male instrument, is played to accompany dancing and as a solo instrument. The music is inspired by the surrounding nature and the nomads' daily life.

The rhythm often imitates the different horse gaits.

this instrument (biannual "International Morin Huur Festival and competition", which is organized by the "World Morin Huur Association". First held in 2008, second in 2010 - with 8 participating countries (Mongolia, Korea, China, Russia, USA, Germany, France, Japan).
During June the "roaring hooves" festival is held. This is a small festival for professional skilled players - but unfortunately a closed festival. These recordings are often shown in TV reports later.
On the national festival "Naadam" praise songs are played for the most magnificent horse and for the highest ranked wrestler and archer. The songs are called "Magtaal" and accompanied by a unique style of praise and morin khuur.

music, or Mongolian style pieces.
The primary education is to learn the scales, to train the ear for achieving the "muscle memory", the ability to automatically adapt the finger position .
The main goal is to achieve a "clear" sound, that means no change in volume or frequency is desired.

is a symbol for peace and happiness.
During the winter time, but also in beginning of the spring time a morin khuur player is called in for the "жавар үргээх", the "ceremony for scaring away the frost".
A number of folk metal and folk rock bands from Mongolia and the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia have combined heavy metal and rock music with traditional Mongolian lyrical themes and instruments, including the morin khuur

List of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

In 2015 the MIM received an important donation of a collection of 37 musical instruments from Mongolia.

The donation also included a rich collection of field recordings, records, photos, books concerning these instruments, and Mongolian music in general.

In Darkhan, the city of Mongolia there is a monument to the instrument/

has another important use. When a mother camel gives birth to a calf sometimes it rejects her calf due to various natural stress situations and Mongolian camel farmers use Morin Khuur-based melodies called "Khoosloh" to heal mother camels' stress and encourage it to readopt its calf.
This readoption of farm animal practice is widely used in various nomadic civilizations worldwide but for Mongolian Gobi farmers' cases, only this instrument is used on camels.
The practice is well shown on documentary called The Story of the Weeping Camel which nominated for 2005 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

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Homework
Find some information about other folk musical instruments, make the presentation of them and prepare questions to your classmates.