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  2. East Asian arts - Traditional, Instruments, Melodies: East Asia can be viewed as one of the big four among the generally urban, literate cultural areas of the world. The other three are South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Around each of these major regional cultures one can find many satellite musical systems known as national forms. In most cases, the fundamental musical concepts of such ...
  3. Southeast Asian arts - Music, Instruments, Traditions: A general musical division exists between the urban and rural areas of Southeast Asia. Urban centres comprise the islands of Java and Bali and places in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar, where big ensembles of gong families play for court and state ceremonies. Rural areas include other islands and remote places, where smaller ...
  4. South Asian arts - Music, Instruments, Traditions: The wide field of musical phenomena in South Asia ranges from the relatively straightforward two- or three-tone melodies of some of the hill tribes in central India to the highly cultivated art music heard in concert halls in the large cities. This variety reflects the heterogeneous population of the subcontinent in terms of ethnic heritage ...
  5. East Asian arts, the visual arts, performing arts, and music of China, Korea (North Korea and South Korea), and Japan. (The literature of this region is treated in separate articles on Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.)Some studies of East Asia also include the cultures of the Indochinese peninsula and adjoining islands, as well as Mongolia to the north.
  6. Southeast Asian arts, the literary, performing, and visual arts of Southeast Asia.Although the cultural development of the area was once dominated by Indian influence, a number of cohesive traits predate the Indian influence. Wet-rice (or padi) agriculture, metallurgy, navigation, ancestor cults, and worship associated with mountains were both indigenous and widespread, and certain art forms ...
  7. South Asian arts - Music Forms, Instruments, Traditions: Both raga and tala provide bases for composition and improvisation in Indian classical music. A performance usually begins with an improvised section, called alapa, played in free time without accompaniment of drums. It may have various sections and might on occasion last half an hour or longer. It is followed by a composed piece in the ...
  8. Central Asian arts - Classical Music, Instruments, Traditions: In contrast to the folk music styles just described, the court-derived classical style of Bukhara and Samarkand represents a highly systematic, theoretically grounded, cosmopolitan musical tradition. Lying along the medieval Silk Road trade route, the Turkistani oases were open to musical crosscurrents. Today's musical roots may ...
  9. East Asian arts - Musical Traits, Cultures: In these primary considerations a view of some general aesthetic traditions common to much of East Asian music is also requisite. The tonal vocabulary of 12 tones generated in a cycle of fifths is the first common factor. From this tonal vocabulary various scales of five to seven notes are chosen. As in the West, the total number of notes in an East ...
  10. Southeast Asian arts - Thailand, Laos, Cambodia: Although their individual political histories differ, the music of Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia is almost identical. The musical instruments and forms of this region spring from the same sources: India, the indigenous Mon-Khmer civilizations, China, and Indonesia. In Thailand, three types of orchestras, called pi phat, kruang sai, and mahori, exist.
  11. Central Asian arts - Music, Instruments, Traditions: Music in Central Asia flowered along centuries-old caravan routes linking the Middle East with China and India via what is often referred to as Turkistan, the vast region extending from the Caspian Sea to the Xinjiang region of northwestern China. Musical instruments diffused from one region to another, and many of the musical styles still ...

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