Cultural characteristics of Asian music

Asia is one of the most developed regions in ancient human civilization.

Asian traditional music has a long history, and the splendid Asian music culture is an important part of human music heritage, which has had a great influence on the development of music in other continents.

Asia can be divided into five musical and cultural regions: East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and West Asia.

East Asian music is very rich in melody, with pentatonic scales, various musical instruments, and various folk songs, operas, rap and dances.

For example, Japanese elegant music, Qin, Zheng and Sanweixian music which were absorbed from China's traditional music and then nationalized, North Korea's Tang music and country music, and of course, China's colorful national music, all of which are treasures of oriental music art..

southeast Asian music was first influenced by China and Indian culture, and later some countries were influenced by * * * and the culture of the later Zhou dynasty.

The classical music in Thailand and Indonesia adopts seven tones.

Large percussion bands are one of the characteristics of Southeast Asian music.

Gamelan is the oldest and most distinctive Indonesian music and has the greatest influence in the world.

Gamelan's music mostly adopts two pentatonic scales, one is semitone and the other is semitone. However, its musical system (that is, the distance between tones) is different from the 12-tone average law, which is somewhat close to the pentatonic average law, so it is not used to it at first.

When playing Gameland, you should also follow a mode called Padaite, which is similar to Indian ragtime, and you should use different Padaites to express different emotions.

There are a few singers in Gamelan.

Gamelan's music is even the representative of Asia in the eyes of westerners.

The ancient musical tradition in South Asia continues to this day.

The melody and rhythm system in Indian classical music has developed to a high degree, with various modes of hungry syllables and unique decorative sound system.

Bangladesh is known as the "land of music", and there is a deep relationship between classical music and folk music in the Indian subcontinent.

Central Asia and West Asia belong to the * * * culture, and adopt the chorus scale, while the * * * classical music in Central Asia adopts the scale of 24 equal rhythms.

the style is soft and prudent.

*** music has been greatly influenced by the cultures of ancient Egypt, Persia, ancient Greece and Rome during its formation.

*** Music culture has also influenced the music in northern India and western China.