Music of Tatarstan

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Music of Russia
Genres	classical — folk — psytrance — pop — hip hop — author song — rock
History (Timeline and Samples)
Awards	MTV Russia Music Awards
Charts
Festivals	Bard Music Festival, Nashestvie
Media
National anthem	"Hymn of the Russian Federation"
Regional music
Adygea — Altai - Astrakhan - Bashkortostan — Buryatia — Chechnya — Chukotka — Chuvashia — Dagestan — Evenkia - Ingushetia — Irkutsk — Kaliningrad — Kalmykia — Kamchatka — Karelia — Khakassia — Khantia-Mansia - Komi Republic - Krasnodar — Mari El — Mordovia — Nenetsia — Ossetia — Rostov — Ethnic Russian — Sakha — Sakhalin — Tatarstan — Tuva — Udmurtia

Tatarstan is a region of Russian Federation, inhabited by the Tatars. Their traditional music is a mixture of Turkic and Finno-Ugric elements. Nonetheless, the most distinguishing feature of the Tatar music is the pentatonic scale, which is bringing it with the Chinese and Vietnamese music tradition. Instrumental dance music, secular song and sacred music are all a part of Tatar folk. Instrumentation includes kubyz (Jew's harp), surnay, quray (flute) and accordion-talianka.

In the mid-20th century, a number of Tatar composers became renowned, including Cäwdät Fäyzi, Salix Säydäş, Mansur Mozaffarov and Näcip Cihanov.

Modern, non-traditional music includes pop, rock and hip-hop (such as İttifaQ) music. Another remarkable artist, who obtained own niche in the Tatar music is the renowned world music singer and composer Zölfiä Kamalova (aka Zulya), currently resides in Australia. One of the most outstanding examples of the contemporary music was the rock opera İl Gizüçe Bolğarda (The Wanderer in Bulgar) – the amalgamation of Tatar Folk Music, Tatar Opera tradition and western rock music arrangements with Russian rock prints.