Indian music culture?

First of all, a lot of Indian music is closely related to life, combined with religion, labor and dance, so generally speaking, their melodies are relatively simple and have unique expressions. This feature is especially manifested in the famous South American folk music "Eagle Flying" based on Andean folk songs (played by Indian musical instruments and guitars). There is no pentatonic scale of semitone, and the melody composed of do, re, mi, sol and la forms a unique style and interest.

Secondly, the rhythm of Indian music is relatively simple. But according to records, before the Spanish conquered Mexico, in Mexico, in order to adapt to religious dance, there were percussion instruments with very complicated rhythm. In addition, there is no harmony in the European sense in traditional Indian music.

Thirdly, in terms of musical instruments, the absence of stringed instruments is a major feature of Indian musical instruments. Although stringed instruments such as guitar, violin and harp are often used in Indian music today, they were brought by Europeans from the16th century, or made in the New World under the influence of Europe. Traditional Indian instruments are wind instruments, such as flute and okari, or percussion instruments, such as drums and vibrators. Among wind instruments, clarinet is the most popular one. It is baked with bamboo, reed or clay, and there are flutes and nose flutes. Indian flute is called antara flute in Peru, Cappado flute in Colombia, Long Da flute in Ecuador and Six Flutes in Bolivia. Some people call all kinds of flutes Zappona. Indian percussion instruments are particularly colorful. Drum making is usually done by burning empty tree trunks, such as Teponastal in Mexico and Trocano in Brazil. The housing can be used as a scraper or a hollow vibrating screen. The wigglers are collectively called Malacca. In addition, there are "ground drums" and jungle drums. Indians usually humanize flutes and drums, some of which belong to yin and some belong to yang. For example, Malacas is Yin and Jiyue is Yang. Guna Indians in Panama have two kinds of Trollos flutes, of which only one is yangdi and the other four are yindi.

In the first few centuries after Central and South America were conquered by Europeans, the church regarded Indian drums and flutes as pagan equipment and prohibited their use, but it had no effect. Indigenous music still survived and eventually became a part of social life, even entering the church. In festivals or street celebrations held in urban and rural areas of Central and South America, Christianity and primitive religion are strangely combined, and European music and Indian indigenous music coexist. But more often, India and Europe are mixed together to form a new form, genre and style.