The Development Characteristics of China Traditional Music

Your question is rather general, because traditional music is divided into factions and periods.

Simply put,

1. Learn and inherit the narrative structure of traditional music.

(1) China traditional music is different from western music in melody, scale, timbre and rhythm.

(2) The presentation of China traditional music has its own characteristics, including some specific termination methods; China folk music embodies the charm of China traditional culture.

2. The structural relationship between China traditional music and China traditional literature.

Literature has couplets, and music has upper and lower sentences; There are four quatrains in literature and a similar ditty in music. There are eight metrical poems in literature, and there is a "sixty-eight-sentence style" in music that is very similar to its structural principle and exists in instrumental music (the same eight sentences, but one of them is not as regular as metrical poems); Literature has chapters and music has divertimento; There is a habit of using idioms in literature, and there is also a habit of using ready-made musical ideas in music. In literature, there are game poems controlled by sequential forms such as "jujube and stone poems", and in music, there are corresponding structural forms such as "golden olives". Sixty-eight beats are pipa.