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Often used in music to refer only to the words of a song, the term can also be used in a broader sense to imply the whole spectrum of a particular kind of music, i.e., a body of sonic phenomena produced by humans on the basis of a certain way of thinking.
One of the most ritualistic EastAsian court-music traditions is known in Chinese as yayue ("elegant music"), though it should be noted that the exact constitution of the term varies from country to country and from one historical period to another.
The Reception and Transculturation of Chinese Music in East Asia: with an Emphasis on the Early Histories of Court Music in Japan and Vietnam (in Japanese: with summary in English) Dissertation (Doctor of Literature), Osaka University.
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