Information about the differences between Chinese and western music

The fundamental difference between China's music system and western music system is that it is full of dialectical spirit. China's traditional music has become a lively and open narrative system, with "the sound can be set at a fixed height" and "the beat can be set at a fixed value", and the tunes can be rotated freely.

However, the western music system is deterministic, and it is indispensable to add a sentence "every note has a fixed height", "every beat has a fixed value" and "playing according to the score".

2. "Sound" and "sound"?

In the performance of western music, it is important to accurately play the phonemes of each fixed point to ensure the harmony of the symphony, without using special skills such as singing, grasping, plucking and noting commonly used in Chinese musical instruments.

In China's music, the smallest unit of pitch is sound, while in China's music theory, sound is a collective concept, which is different from the concepts that tend to be strict, punctate and quantitative in western music theory.

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History of Chinese and western music development;

The history of western music refers to the development of western music, and the detailed times can be divided into: ancient Greek and Roman music, medieval music, Renaissance music, baroque music, classical music, romantic music, modern music and so on.

Classical music in Europe developed in the Elizabethan period in the Middle Ages, and the music in this period was mainly Gregory religious music.

China's ancient music theory developed slowly, and its position in the "official history" was not high, leaving no written materials. But music, like literature, is a compulsory course for ancient intellectuals and undoubtedly plays an important role in the daily life of ancient China people. Folk songs are full of colorful melodies.