What was the ancient Chinese music score like?

There are three most common scale structures in traditional Chinese music, the first is called the "tonic scale", the second is called the "ching shang scale", and the third is called the "down-tone scale", which have different structures due to the different positions of the intervals and semitones between the tone columns. The second is called the "clear tone scale", and the third is called the "down-tone scale", which have different structures due to the different positions of the whole tone intervals and semitone intervals between the tone rows.

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Ordinary scale 徵 羽 變 宫 商 角 中

Clear scale and 徵 羽 leap 宫 商 角

Downward-tuned scale 宮 商角 and 徵 孙 變

The following is a comparison of the structure of the scales of the Jahu bone flute with the traditional scales after the soundings were taken:

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#F5 or G5 7 holes 6 holes 5 holes 4 holes 3 holes 2 holes 1 hole Conclusion

Jiao 徵 羽 闰 宫 商 角 徵 清商音阶

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宫 商 角 and 徵 羽 變 商 下徵調

音阶七声

The musical sound is a natural phenomenon, but the scale is not a natural phenomenon, and there are different scales for different peoples of the world, so it can be said that the way of combining the musical sound, i.e. scale structure is a musical and cultural pattern. Therefore, it can be said that a combination of musical tones, i.e. a scale, is a kind of musical and cultural pattern, which is a group of people choosing and arranging tones according to certain aesthetic interests. Chinese melodies are built on Chinese scales and are produced in Chinese modes. For a long period of history, there was a fear that China was a five-tone tradition and the West was a seven-tone tradition, that the five tones were simple and the seven complex. Now, the Oriental flute in the Central Plains breaks out above, spitting out a string of authentic Chinese traditional seven-tone scale, it and we still hear today's Chinese tone is completely consistent, this is how meaningful!

When the sound of man's homemade instruments began to float in a universe that was no longer bleak and silent, the melody was not only infused with the clear musical consciousness of our ancestors, but also contained the joyful heartfelt sounds of the pioneers of the heavens and the earth!