yatga
English
Etymology
From Mongolian ятга (jatga) / ᠶᠠᠲᠤᠭᠠ (yatug-a).
Noun
yatga (plural yatgas)
- A type of zither played in Mongolia.
- 2001, Carole Pegg, Mongolian Music, Dance, & Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities, →ISBN:
- In Old Mongolia, the yatga was used in courts to entertain the aristocracy and was also played by the aristocracy.
- 2009, Timothy Michael May, Culture and Customs of Mongolia, →ISBN, page 89:
- Traditionally yatga performances were reserved only for monasteries and the court, and playing the instrument was considered a sacrosanct rite. This taboo changed over time as new forms of the yatga appeared, ranging from a ten-stringed yatga that anyone could play to a yatga with twenty-one strings.
- 2017, Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, & J. Lawrence Witzleben, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia, →ISBN:
- The second and fourth manuscripts have musical notation for the ten-stringed yatga (Erdenechimeg and Shagdarsüren 1995).