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Chinese classical music is the traditional art or court music of China. It has a long history stretching for more than three thousand years. It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or musical genres. Solo instruments include the guqin, pipa and guzheng. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Music of China appears to date back to the dawn of Chinese civilization, and documents and artifacts provide evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC). ... Music has a long and complex history. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... In music, there are two common meanings for tuning: Tuning practice The act of tuning an instrument or voice. ... In music, pitch is the psychological correlate of the fundamental frequency of a note. ... It has been suggested that Chinese orchestra be merged into this article or section. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... The guqin (Chinese: 古琴; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: ku-chin; literally ancient stringed-instrument) is the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family (中華絃樂噐/中华弦乐器). It has been played since ancient times, and has traditionally been favored by scholars and literati as an instrument of great... A woman plays the pipa in the New York City Subways Times Square Station, 2004. ... The guzheng, or gu zheng (Chinese: ; pinyin: gǔzhēng) or zheng (箏) (gu- means ancient) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. ...


Chinese music is pentatonic-diatonic, having a scale of twelve notes to an octave (5+7 = 12) as does European-influenced music. In music, a pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes per octave. ... In Music theory, the diatonic major scale (also known as the Guido scale), from the Greek diatonikos or to stretch out, is a fundamental building block of the European-influenced musical tradition. ... In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va) is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency. ...

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Classical music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (234 words)
Classical music is generally thought of as sophisticated and refined; it may stem from a regional tradition, but aspires to universal form of communication.
Classical music is sometimes defined as music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of art, ecclesiastical, and concert music.
In the English language, the term "classical music" is a homophoric reference to European classical music, such as Beethoven's symphonies, and its derivative styles, and rarely used to refer to traditional musical styles of other regions.
Chinese classical music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (110 words)
Chinese classical music is the traditional art or court music of China.
It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or musical genres.
Chinese music is pentatonic-diatonic, having a scale of twelve notes to an octave (5+7 = 12) as does European-influenced music.
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