Altai is a region in Russia, composed primarily of ethnic Russians and Altaians. Prominent modern performers include the Alexei G. Kalkin, who performs epics like Maadai Kara. Russia is a large and extremely culturally diverse country, with dozens of ethnic groups, each with their own forms of folk music. ... Adygea is a region in Russia. ... The first major study of the music of Bashkortostan appeared in 1897, when ethnographer Rybakov S.G. wrote Music and Songs of the Urals Muslims and Studies of Their Way of Life. ... Buryatia is a part of the Russian Federation. ... Native musical instruments: The pondur is the oldest of musical instruments of the Chechens, comprising of three chords and a wooden casing. ... Evenkia is a part of Russia, located in Asia. ... Khakassia is a region in Russia. ... The Komi Republic is a region of Russia. ... Mordovia is a region of Russia. ... The Sakha Republic is a part of Russia in Asia. ... Tatarstan is a part of Russia, inhabited by the Tatars. ... Tuva is a part of Russia, inhabited by a people related to the nearby Mongolians. ... Udmurtia is a Russian region. ... A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their states official national song. ... The Hymn of the Russian Federation is the national anthem of Russia. ... The term bard came to use in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s (and continues to be used in Russia today) for popular poets and singers who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment. ... Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots. ... For the republic in Russia, see Altai Republic. ...

The Ministry of Culture of the Altai Republic operates several folkloric organizations dedicating to preserve traditional culture, including music and dance; each is dedicated to a particular region. These regions include Ust-Kansky, O­ngudai, sKosh-Agach, Ust-Kok, Tchemalskys, Shebalinskya, Gorno-Altaisk, Tchoisky, Turachaksk, Ulagansky and Maiminsky Gorno-Altaisk or Gorno-Altaysk (Russian: Горно-Алтайск) (pop. ...

Traditional instruments from Altai include:

• Amirgi-Marok: a wind instrument used to coax deer
• Adishi-Marok: a wind instrument made of birch bark
• Ikili: a stringed instrument with a long neck and strings made from animal sinews and played with a bow
• Komus: a Jew's harp made of wood traditionally, though now more frequently metal
• Shagay: a wind instrument made from the bones of a sheep
• Shagur: a wind instrument made of wood with holes on the side
• Shatra: a rattle
• Shoor: a long wind instrument, similar to a flute
• Topshur: two-stringed instrument, carved from pine and covered with leather, using strings made from horse-tails and tuned to an interval of a fourth
• Ungurek: a wind instrument made of clay

The performance of traditional epics, accompanied by the topshur, is an important part of Altai music. These are usually narrated in a falsetto voice]] and enunciated in the low bass register. They are pentatonic and include melismatics. Performers include N. Ulagashev, P. Kutshiyak and Deley, while more modern vocalists include Aleksey Kalkin, S. Aetenov, Shunu Yalatov, Tovar Tchetsiyakov, Tanishpai Shinshin. A wind instrument consists of a tube containing a column of air which is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set into the end of the tube. ... Genera About 15 in 4 subfamilies. ... Species many species see text and classification Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. ... BARK (Bin r Automatisk Rel Kalkylator) was completed in February 1950 at a cost of 400. ... A string instrument (also stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... A tendon or sinew is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue, attached on one end to a muscle and on the other to a bone. ... The word bow has several meanings and two pronunciations, depending on meaning: Rhymes with low A kind of weapon; see bow (weapon). ... This articel is about the Greek God. ... Jews harp, from an American Civil War camp near Winchester, Virginia Jews harp, Slovakia, Central Europe The Jews harp is one of the oldest musical instruments in the world. ... Grays illustration of a human femur, a typically recognized bone. ... This article is about the animal, sheep; for other meanings of Sheep, see Sheep (disambiguation). ... This article pertains to the musical instrument. ... Topshur is a northern turki (tuvans, altai, khakas) two-stringed musical instrument, a domra-kind. ... This article deals with the tree; for the e-mail client see Pine email client Species About 115. ... Modern leather-making tools Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides, pelts and skins of animals, primarily cows. ... Binomial name Equus caballus The Horse (Equus caballus) is a large ungulate mammal, one of the seven modern species of the genus Equus. ... Clay is a generic term for an aggregate of hydrous silicate particles less than 4 μm (micrometres) in diameter. ... Falsetto (fall-SET-oh) is a singing technique that produces sounds pitched higher than the singers normal range. ... In music, a pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes per octave. ... An attribute of some Islamic and Gregorian chants, it is the style of singing several notes to one syllable of text. ...

The most popular traditional musician from Altai may be Nohon Shumarov, from Yaman, a small village in the mountains, who worked in theater in Gorno Altaysk beginning in 1977. He now works at the School of Classical Music, which is the only institution of its kind in the region to teach traditional music. He has performed across Russia and Central Asia, as well as as far away as Vietnam, Germany, Latvia, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland and Lithuania. 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...

External links

• Sound samples (http://www.tarbagan.com/altai.htm)