Ten Thousand Horses Galloping

Introduction

A morin khuur solo by Chi Bulag that won prizes for both composition and performance in 1979

Ten Thousand Horses Galloping is a solo for the morin khuur, the Mongol horse-head fiddle, by the Mongol player and composer Chi Bulag. Chosen for the Inner Mongolia Experimental Theatre Troupe in 1958, he studied the instrument in Hohhot with Sangdureng and other teachers. In 1979 the solo won him a silver prize for composition and a gold prize for performance at a national concert of music from all of China's peoples, though one report gives the awards as second and first prizes. From 1986 he set out to train morin khuur players systematically and formed the Wild Horse morin khuur ensemble. Of the four pieces the ensemble brought out after four months of rehearsal, the first was this solo. It is listed with Ordos Plateau and Hymn to the Grassland as one of his representative works.

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