The history of Buryat folk instruments in teaching musical disciplines

The study of folk musical instruments has a great scientific interest in musical pedagogy; it enriches knowledge about musical instruments and material culture. Being an integral part of traditional folk art, instrumental folk music contributes to spiritual development of the individual through mastering cultural values of the past and the present. In the article we studied Buryat folk instruments and their classification. Musical instruments were divided into two groups: wind instruments (Limbe, Tsuur) and string instruments (Huur, Huuchir, Shanz, Yoochin, Yatug-a zither). Cultural contacts and relations with neighboring peoples, as well as organization of the national instrumental orchestra during the 1st Decade of Buryat-Mongolian Art in Moscow (1940) had an influence on the development of Buryat folk instruments. The study of this problem enables us not only to evaluate and use the experience in teaching, but also to identify the national specifics of society, its historical past, natural and climatic conditions of economy, cultural activities, and national world view.