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Chinese musicology is the academic study of traditional Chinese music. This discipline has a very long history. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...
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). ...
Tuning The ancient Chinese defined, by mathematical means, a gamut or series of 12 frequencies (called the 十二律12 lü) from which various sets of five or seven frequencies were selected to make the sort of "do re mi" major scale familiar to people who have grown up in the United States and the United Kingdom. The 12 lü approximate the frequencies known in the West as A, B flat.....G, and A flat. Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ...
In music, a scale is a set of musical notes that provides material for part or all of a musical work. ...
 Download high resolution version (1035x370, 26 KB)Chart prepared by Patrick Edwin Moran. ...
Scale and tonality Most Chinese music uses a pentatonic scale, with the intervals (in terms of lǜ) the same as those of the major pentatonic scale. The notes of this scale are called gong, shang, jue, zhi, and yu. By starting from a different point of this sequence, a scale (named after its starting note) with a different interval sequence is created, similar to the construction of modes in modern Western music. In music, a pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes per octave. ...
In music, a mode is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. ...
Since the Chinese system is not an equal tempered tuning, playing a melody starting from the lǜ nearest to A will not necessarily sound the same as playing the same melody starting from some other lǜ, since the wolf interval will occupy a different point in the scale. The effect of changing the starting point of a song can be rather like the effect of shifting from a major to a minor key in Western music. Equal temperament is a scheme of musical tuning in which the octave is divided into a series of equal steps (equal frequency ratios). ...
In music theory, the major scale is one of the diatonic scales. ...
A minor scale in musical theory can be viewed as the sixth mode of the major scale. ...
Source - 一种体系 两个系统 by 陈应时 (Yi zhong ti-xi, liang ge xi-tong by Chen Ying-shi of the Shanghai Conservatory), Musicology in China, 2002, Issue 4, 中国音乐学，2002，第四 期
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