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The traditional music of
CHINA
can tell a story or paint a picture in sound, express ideas and even
influence people in how to live their lives for the good of all.
The idea of composing music for its own sake was foreign to Chinese
culture and its classical music was not for wide audiences but a more
private art form. Plucked and
bowed LUTES, used in traditional folk music, are very high pitched and
again based on the pentatonic (5 note) scale. Melodies are performed in
unison (all playing and singing the same notes) with elaborately modified
versions of the melody played at the same time. The Chinese invented
numerous musical instruments, such
as the Zheng, Qin, Sheng, Xiao and ERHU that have later spread throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia,
particularly to
Japan
,
Korea
and
Vietnam
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