Similarities and differences between western musical instruments and Chinese musical instruments

First of all, different forms of music

1. Western musical instruments:

Rationality, logic, multiline, three-dimensional. Polyphony is the fundamental factor that distinguishes it from oriental music. Polyphony is a way of composing music with the synchronous development of multi-line music.

2. Chinese musical instruments:

Perception, nature, single line, plane. The development of ancient music in China is similar to that in the West, which can be roughly divided into four types: court music, literati music, religious music and folk music.

Second, the formation mechanism of temperament:

1. Chinese musical instruments:

Rhythm is produced by the law of three points losing one point and five degrees, so it is inconvenient to tune the instrument and cannot be tuned at will;

2. Western musical instruments:

The musical system of twelve average laws is adopted, so most musical instruments can be turned to the 12 key at will.

Extended data

The origin of China wind instruments is very old. According to legend, in the Xia and Yu Dynasties four thousand years ago, there was a wind instrument made of reeds called "Diao". Wind instruments are the main instruments in folk weddings, funerals and celebrations.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the further exchange of western cultures, the number of musical instruments increased dramatically. Especially drum instruments, this may be due to the development of song and dance music. There are more than 30 kinds of percussion instruments, such as brass cymbals, knot drums, five-line drums, waist drums, feather drums, fork drums, qi drums, Dan drums, Jie drums, Dutan drums, Maoyuan drums, Dala drums and Lou Ji drums.

Technically speaking, the composition of local style characteristics of instrumental music works involves the whole basic means of music expression (pitch relationship, mode, tonality, rhythm, beat, speed, range, intensity, timbre, playing method, texture and so on). ) and the overall means of expression, these are the indispensable basic elements that constitute the style characteristics of an instrumental work.

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