Meaning of yatga | Babel Free

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A traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia.

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“In Old Mongolia, the yatga was used in courts to entertain the aristocracy and was also played by the aristocracy.”

“Traditionally yatga performances were reserved only for monasteries and the court, and playing the instrument was considered a sacrosanct rite. This taboo changed over time as new forms of the yatga appeared, ranging from a ten-stringed yatga that anyone could play to a yatga with twenty-one strings.”

“The second and fourth manuscripts have musical notation for the ten-stringed yatga (Erdenechimeg and Shagdarsüren 1995).”

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