| Music of Russia: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Genres | Bards - Classical music - Hip hop - Jazz - Opera - Rock | |
| Awards | MTV Russia Music Awards | |
| Charts | ||
| Festivals | Bard Music Festival | |
| Media | ||
| National anthem | "National anthem of Russia" | |
| Music of Central Asia | ||
| Afghanistan - Badakhshan - Buryatia - Gansu - Inner Mongolia - Kazakhstan - Khakassia - Kyrgyzstan - Mongolia - Qinghai - Tajikistan - Tibet - Turkmenistan - Tuva - Uzbekistan - Xinjiang | ||
| Russian regions and ethnicities | ||
| Adygea - Altai - Astrakhan - Bashkortostan - Buryatia - Belarusian - Chechnya - Chukotka - Chuvashia - Dagestan - Evenkia - Ingushetia - Irkutsk - Kaliningrad - Kalmykia - Kamchatka - Karelia - Khakassia - Khantia-Mansia - Komi Republic - Krasnodar - Mari El - Mordovia - Nenetsia - Ossetia - Rostov - Russian Traditional - Sakha - Sakhalin - Tatarstan - Tyva - Udmurtia - Ukrainian | ||
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Tuva is a part of Russia, inhabited by a Turkic people. Tuvans are known abroad for khoomei (xöömej), a kind of overtone singing.
Traditionally, Tuvan music was only a solo effort. The musician's intention was usually to emphasise timbre and harmonics over rhythm. Performances were often in places with good natural acoustics, such as caves, cliffs, and rivers, with the performer taking long pauses to allow nature the chance to converse back. Modern Tuvan music usually involves ensembles of musicians playing multiple instruments, and tends to be more pulsatile than traditional forms.