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INANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Humanity was originally nomads. And then they began to live in settlement about 10,000 years ago. Today, not so many ethnic groups lead nomadic life on earth. Mongolia, located in the heart of Central Asia, is the place where has protected the tradition of long nomads’ culture.
Nuri Khujand, an ensemble from the Academy of Shashmaqam of the Republic of Tajikistan is playing Shashmaqam. Shashmaqam (means the six Maqams (modes)) is a Central Asian musical genre (typical of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) which firstly developed in Bukhara. Shashmaqom (in Farsi - "Six maqoms") is a leading musical-cyclic genre of musical heritage of Uzbek and Tajik people. It includes a cycle of complex and perfect instrumental as well as vocal compositions encompassing different types of melos, forms, usuls (rhythmic formulae) and performances. It is inscribed in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008.
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