What's the difference between eastern and western music?

1, different tones of the sound series

Oriental music is dominated by five tones, including Gong, Shang, Jiao, Qian, Yu, and many voiceless sounds. Western music mainly uses seven tones, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, of which 4 and 7 are two semitones, so voiced sounds appear.

Oriental music and western music are two big conceptual categories. Oriental music includes music from many countries, not only from China, but also from many other eastern countries. Music in different countries has very different regional characteristics in hearing because of different modes. Western music also includes music from many countries, such as Germany, Austria and France.

Not to mention the differences between the East and the West, that is, the music of different ethnic minorities in the same country and different provinces is sometimes quite different, which is the difference in style.

China's traditional music is dominated by five tones, while western music is dominated by big and small tones, while China's traditional music is relatively simple. The colors of western music vary widely, but they are not absolute. Different countries have similar music.

Music all over the world is interlinked, borderless, interactive and integrated.

2. Differences in classical music

On the technical level, western classical music is theoretical and standardized, with a large number of text and audio documents, which are easy to spread; However, China's traditional music has no complete composition theory and rules, and it is easy to be lost. China's traditional music is dominated by lines, while western classical music pays more attention to harmony.

China traditional music pays attention to breath, while western classical music pays more attention to rhythm. The biggest technical difference between them lies in timbre and playing method. On the artistic level, China's traditional music mainly shows the thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, emphasizing understanding and wisdom, so it is subjective. Western classical music emphasizes aesthetics and functionality, so it is more objective.

The performance characteristics of China's traditional music realm are different from those of western classical music. Western classical music is good at being profound and serious, highlighting the opposition between subject and object, and most of them are full of drama or tragedy, which embodies the "grandeur" of an artistic spirit; China's traditional music is good at being broad-minded, emphasizing the blending of "emotion" and "scenery" and the unity of subject and object, which embodies a spirit of "harmony" and "beauty".

Generally speaking, the classical traditional symphonies in western countries can best reflect the thinking equations of westerners. The vocal music wave of western symphony is several timbres, divided into several bars, and dissolved into the natural sound of simulated creatures. The subtle fluctuation of instrumental sound energy can make the audience sort out a trace of continuity from the chaotic present, thus making people's thinking gradually rational.

If vocal music waves are used, the sound wave series of such symphonies in the west have similar pulsation with the mental process of the human brain. Therefore, from this aspect, the symphonies of western musicians have more or less influenced the qualitative thinking of westerners. Let's call the western music wave "the pulsating music wave of auxiliary thinking" for the time being.

At present, China's traditional vocal music seems to be only popular with some traditional opera music. By carefully analyzing the vocal music of these traditional operas, we find that our opera music stays on a plane of feeling. No matter from the perspective of opera singing or vocal music spectrum, Chinese traditional opera vocal music always jumps peacefully, and gradually jumps with curves and radians. The biggest feature of this kind of vocal music is that it has similar pulse with people's hidden emotional nerve thinking.

3. Differences in pop music

At present, there are popular misunderstandings in the domestic pop music market. The popular vocal music in our country stays in a very superficial vocal music, and the biggest feature of this popular vocal music band is that the waves are low and the pulse is flat.

From a deeper point of view, it takes several nerve beats to forcibly accept the beating wave of this sound wave in the memory nerve. Therefore, this popular vocal wave is named' the pulsating vocal wave dominated by nerves'.

Now let's talk about some western pop music: the biggest vocal feature of western pop music is that sound waves are close to human nerve conduction. When we stay in that kind of vocal music for a long time, we will inevitably adjust our nerve rhythm with that kind of vocal music, and we will inevitably dance. Therefore, this kind of vocal music wave is named' nerve-forced pulsating vocal music wave'.

Extended data

In the discourse system of China's music theory, "theory" is the core word, "China Music" modifies "theory", and "discourse system" is the way of expressing "theory" and its knowledge system through language.

To establish "the discourse system of China's music theory", we must first make clear the basic music theory of China traditional music.

Music takes sound as the medium. Among the four physical characteristics of sound, pitch and duration are more important, which are the focus of various basic music theories.

Pitch includes musical sound, musical sound system, rhythm, scale, rising tone, mode and mode, and sound length includes beat, rhythm, beat and speed.

In terms of pitch, other concepts are based on "musical tone". The concept and structure of musical tone is the "deep structure" of pitch, while the problems of musical tone system, rhythm, scale, rising tone, mode and mode are the "surface structure".

In terms of sound length, rhythm, beat, and rigid eyes. They are all based on the beat value, so the beat value is the deep structure of the sound length, while the problems of rhythm, beat and board eye are the surface structure.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Music (Music Culture)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Western Classical Music

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