The Urtiin duu or “long song” is one of the two major forms of Mongolian songs, the other being the short song” (bogino duu). As a ritual form of expression associated with important celebrations and ...

Back to (Inner) Mongolia again. This is a story about a Mongolian singer who loses her voice after her husband dies in an accident. She goes back to Mongolia to rest. There is some truly stunning ...

Suvda Khereid of Sunset Park is a Mongolian singer who has performed in Japan, China and across the United States. She is featured in the Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s Beat of the Boroughs: ...

Garbed in embroidered traditional attire, Aodenggerile, the Mongolian queen of urtiin duu or "long songs" crooned to the curious journalists the lyrical chants from the Mongolian steppe at the press ...

Their performances of morin khuur (Mongolian stringed instrument), khoomei (throat singing) and urtiin duu (long song) made Zhu nostalgic, and he decided to do something to promote the music of his ...

ULAN BATOR (Reuters Life!) - Bitonal humming is not a common form of patriotic protest, but for traditional Mongolian singers, it was the best way to lay claim to an art form they say has been usurped ...