What is the basic theory of music?

The basic theory of music is pentatonic scale.

Music can be divided into vocal music and instrumental music, and can also be roughly divided into classical music, folk music, original ecological music, modern music (including pop music) and so on. In terms of artistic types, music is abstract, and music can be divided into eastern music and western music in historical development.

In the East, China's ancient theory, headed by China Hanle, is based on the five tones of industry, commerce, communication, righteousness and Yu, while in the West, it is dominated by seven tones. Music is pleasing to the eye and brings us auditory enjoyment. Music can improve people's aesthetic ability, purify people's hearts and establish lofty ideals.

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The pentatonic scale is characterized by no semitone (second degree), which is called "pentatonic scale without semitone" or "pentatonic scale with whole tone" in detail. Widely popular in Asia, Africa, some islands in the central Pacific, Hungary and Scotland, and native American tribes before Europeans arrived in America.

Often referred to as the "China scale". Its five orders have special names in the traditional culture of China, namely: public, business, communication, righteousness and Yu. In the Tang Dynasty, "harmony, division, b, delay and fairness" were used.

Its interval organization is that each octave has three whole tones, which are divided into two strings (the upper corner of the palace) and a Dan Xian (the Zheng language), and the two segments are separated by a □ tone, as shown in the following example 2: Each tone in a scale can be used as a tonic to establish a mode, which can form five different pentatonic modes.

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