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A Brief Review of English-Language Research on the Morin Khuur

Abstract

Official translations of music-academic research from English into Mongolian are quite scarce. However, today anyone, regardless of their level of education, who has access to the internet can easily get acquainted with any information in the world’s languages in their native language with the help of AI or translation programs. At the moment, due to the imperfection of the translation program into Mongolian and the inaccuracy of term selection, it does not yet fully meet the needs of the academic community in the field of musicology. Acquiring and Access to highly specialized research, especially rare antiquarian books, is difficult to obtain in the conditions of Mongolian life due to the limitation of global payment through PayPal and the impossibility of direct delivery from the Amazon network.
The above-mentioned obstacles forced the author of this article to write this extensive panorama on the study of Morin Khuur in the English-speaking scholarly community. This article mainly touched on American and British scientists who devoted work to morin khuur. Today, the name of the British scholar, Professor of Ethnomusicology Carole Pegg, and the American professor, for the first time published a book in English about Morin Khuur, Peter Marsh, has become iconic in the field of World Mongol Studies. Of course, in this article I touched upon the work of the famous Swedish music researcher Ernest Emsheimer (1904 – 1989), the French Orientalist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025), Isabel Wong, and other scholars who carefully studied the Mongolian musical tradition, including the heritage of the Morin Khuur.