Kui (music)

Kui

music genre

Subclass of	Turkic-Mongolic music, Kazakh folk music
Country of origin	Kazakhstan
Intangible cultural heritage status	Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Described at URL	https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00996, https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/00996, https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/00996

Kui be Kipchak instrumental musical composition dem perform plus national plucked, bow den wind instruments such as dombyra, qobyz, syrnai, wey mostly plus de plucked dombyra of de Kazakhs den Komuz of de Kyrgyzs. For de 20th century insyd, Kazakh Soviet musicians experiment plus chorus performance of kuis.

Kui insyd Kazakh culture dem perform plus dombyra

For Kazakh culture insyd na dem dey learn kuis by heart wey dem pass from generation go generation widout written fixation. For example, Kazakh folk Kui “aqsaq qulan” (lame onager) dem date am go de 13th century. Authors of chaw Kazakh kuis dey live for de Middle Ages insyd. Buh de pick of de culture be from de 19th den 20th centuries. Dem sanso include Kui tradition verbal part wey explain in detail de story for ein compositions, personalities, reasons den legends. Before dem dey perform de kui, de performer use make e give story about de composition make dem play, so de auditory fi get proper feelings. Buh na by de tym dem finally separate de verbal tradition give kuis from instrumental performances den few kuishi per (performer of kui) stil dey keep dis part of de tradition.

Ancient composers of kuis

Na dem form Dombyra Kuis for de result of centuries-old folk instrumental performance tradition. Der be chaw outstanding middle age musicians insyd Kazakh history:

• Sypyra-Zhyrau (14th century)
• Qaztugan or Abulqadir (15th century)
• Asanqaigy (14th-15th centuries)
• Baizhigit (15th-16th centuries)

Buh na dem achieve de peak of de culture by de middle of 19th century. Then chaw composers live wey dem create kuis:

• Qurmangazy Sagyrbai (1823–1889)
• Mahambet Otemisuly (Utemisov, 1803–1846)
• Dauletkerei Shygauly (Shygaev, 1821–1875 )
• Tattimbet Qazangapuly (Kazangapov, 1817–1862)
• Abyl Taraquly, (Taraqov, 1820–1892)
• Esbai (1810–1901)
• Qazangap (1854–1921)
• Toqa Shonmanuly (Shonmanov, 1830–1904) and others

De female composer Dina Nurpeisqyzy, anaa Dina Nurpisova (1861–1955) sanso begin ein career then.

References

From de National Library of de Republic of Kazakhstan. Books insyd Russian.

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