Asian music clips

Description:Timeline of Chinese music Lively musicians playing a bamboo flute and a plucked instrument, Chinese ceramic statues from the Eastern Han period 25— AD , Shanghai Museum According to legends, the founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun who, at the request of the Yellow Emperor to create a system of music, made bamboo pipes tuned to the sounds of birds including the phoenix. Archaeological evidence indicates that music culture developed in China from a very early period. Excavations in Jiahu Village in Wuyang County , Henan found bone flutes dated to 8, years ago, and clay music instruments called Xun thought to be 6, years old have been found in the Hemudu sites in Zhejiang and Banpo in Xi'an. Around or before the 7th century BC, a system of pitch generation and pentatonic scale was derived from a cycle-of-fifths theory. To Confucius , a correct form of music is important for the cultivation and refinement of the individual, and the Confucian system considers the formal music yayue to be morally uplifting and the symbol of a good ruler and stable government. The answer was that it only mattered that the ruler loved his subjects.

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