Central Asia
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. The classical court traditions Shashmaqam (Uzbek-Tajik) and Mugham (Azerbaijani) anchor the region, alongside the long-necked dutar and the Kazakh dombra.
Most popular
- ClassicalUyghur Twelve MuqamThe 12 great suites of the Uyghur classical tradition — instrumental, vocal and dance music in a single 8-12 hour cycle from Xinjiang.
- Folk & WorldUrtin Duu (Long Song)Mongolian long-song — single syllables stretched into ornament-laden lines of fifteen or twenty seconds, evoking steppe and sky.
- Folk & WorldMorin KhuurMongolian two-string bowed horsehead fiddle and the repertoire built around it.
- Folk & WorldTuvan Throat SingingSouthern Siberian overtone singing — simultaneous pitches from one throat, mimicking horses, wind and rivers of the Tuva steppe.
- Folk & WorldKhoomeiCentral Asian throat singing in which a single voice produces a drone and a melodic overtone simultaneously.
- ClassicalDuduk MusicArmenian double-reed wind music: a single instrument's voice held close to human speech, played in slow lament.
By country
モンゴル
- Folk & WorldUrtin Duu (Long Song)
- Folk & WorldMorin Khuur
- Folk & WorldKhoomei
China
- ClassicalUyghur Twelve Muqam
Russia
- Folk & WorldTuvan Throat Singing
アルメニア
- ClassicalDuduk Music
By decade
Before 1900
- ClassicalDuduk Musicアルメニア
- Folk & WorldTuvan Throat SingingRussia
- Folk & WorldKhoomeiモンゴル
- Folk & WorldUrtin Duu (Long Song)モンゴル
- Folk & WorldMorin Khuurモンゴル
- ClassicalUyghur Twelve MuqamChina
