Chinese instruments

Uyghur folk song "Wild Geese in the Sky" from the album "Music Map of China Hear Xinjiang Uyghur Folk Song Collection"

The Geese in the Sky. The geese in the sky

Composer: Heyastin Balati Nationality: Uyghur Chinese Lyrics Compilation: Ilpani Yasheng Region: Xinjiang

Singing, Dutal: Ekram Aimetijiang

Track description:

Dutar, the Persian music of Western Asia, is one of the many sources of the fine tradition of Uyghur music. Dutar means "two", and "tar" means "string". Dutar is an instrument with two strings, and it is one of the traditional stringed instruments especially favored by Uyghur people. No matter dance, song, rap, there is always its string sound accompaniment.

The chords of the sheep are stretched out on the body of a long, graceful harp, always made of wood, and the player holds them on the side, with his fingers rapidly playing or plucking, or brushing or picking, or sweeping the chords, while the chords of the Dutal naturally fit into the warm and somewhat bleak male voice, which is the song of being separated from his lover by labor, when they say goodbye in the garden, and then he goes off to seek a living in the distant mountains. In the melodious lyric of the song, he did not sing hard and sad, he sang how beautiful the garden was when he left, he sent a letter to the wild goose, asking it to tell her that I was happy and that I would eventually go back. The letter, of course, could not be delivered, and the song was sung over and over again.