The Chagatai Epic Music

Music vocals by Farya Faraji, based on traditional folk motifs from Mongolia, jaw harp by Ren Vas Terul; check out his epic channel here: Please note that this isn t reconstructed historical music, only modern Mongolian and Altaic music with a historical theme. I thought the Chagatai, the dynasty emerging from Genghis Khan s second son Chagatai Khan, would make for an interesting musical theme, given that they were Mongols who became Turkicised, adopting the Chagatai Turkic language as their native tongue, Persian as their official state language, and Islam as their religion. I therefore wrote this piece in the basics of Mongolian form: a pentatonic melody accompanied by the moorin khuur fiddle, the national instrument of Mongolia, a Mongolian yatga, the Central Asian and Turkic dombra, a jaw harp expertly played by my colleague Ren Vas Terul, a flute, and overtone throat singing in the khoomei technique. The lyrics are in the Chagatai Turkic an