Mongolian Music

On trips to India and China I have, of course, attempted to listen to and follow classical Indian and Chinese music as well as Beijing opera. Its impact is huge but, for a non-specialist brought up in Europe, difficult to grasp immediately in its formal structures and development. It therefore requires study to begin to get more from it.
On a trip to China I was therefore stunned to find a musical form of ravishing beauty that those raised in the European tradition can grasp immediately - but to which the Chinese respond equally. It combines musical techniques quite unknown in Europe with beautiful poetry of a sensibility that could only come from the country that produced it. Allow me to present as a new great enthusiasm - the music of Mongolia.
As, unless I am completely out of touch with current developments, Mongolian music does not have remotely the recognition that it deserves in Britain or the UK I hope readers will forgive an elementary introduction - experts on Mongolian music can doubtless turn up their noses at mistakes that follow. But I am being very serious that this is sensational music of a sensibility very different to Europe but immediately comprehensible. Naturally the only real thing to do is listen to it but in words a little can be described. A tiny repeating melodic fragment, in a modernised setting, can be heard at http://www.tala.com.cn/en/flash/main.html