Music of Kyrgyzstan
| Central Asian music |
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| China (Xinjiang) |
| Kazakhstan |
| Kyrgyzstan |
| Mongolia |
| Tajikistan |
| Turkmenistan |
| Uzbekistan |
Kyrgyz music is nomadic and rural, and is closely related to Turkmen and Kazakh folk forms.
Travelling musicians and shamans called manaschi are popular for their singing and komuz-playing. Their music is typically heroic epics, such as the most famous story, the Manas epic (20 times longer than Homer's Odyssey), which is the patriotic tale of a warrior named Manas, and his descendants, who fight with the Chinese.