Asia has many countries and each has a unique mix of sounds and styles We will only look at China Japan and Indonesia Realize that these are just brief looks at the surface of music in Asia ID: 789027
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Slide1
The Music of Asia
A BREIF overview
Slide2Asia has many countries and each has a unique mix of sounds and styles.
We will only look at China, Japan
, and Indonesia. Realize that these are just brief looks at the surface of music in Asia!
Slide3Chinese culture reaches back to 2000 B.C. \
They invented the compass, gunpowder, paper, and printing
Their music in characterized by heterophony and the pentatonic
scale
China
Slide4Sizhu
(SUH-
droo) music played in tea housesa “jam session” with instruments like the
erhu
and
dizi
Northern Chinese villages often have suona (so-nah) players. Chinese opera is popular in the citiesOpera singers sing with tense-Guttural sounds
Silk and Bamboo
Slide5Erhu
(
ur-hoo): Two string fiddle that rest on the player’s kneePipa:
4 or 5-string lute held like a small cello
Dizi
(
dee-zee): bamboo flute that buzzes like a kazooYangquin (yahn-chin): hammered dulcimerSheng (shung
): small bamboo pipes bound in a circle.
Chinese Pop Music: Cui Jian
Chinese instruments
Slide6Taiko
: a drum ensemble that blends martial arts and music
Taiko drums were used in religious ceremonies and in battle to frighten the enemy and issue commands
Japanese Taiko
Slide7Shamisen
:
three stringed guitar that is pluckedKoto: a 13 string instrument that is plucked with finger picks. The koto
is Japan’s national instrument.
Shakuhachi
: a bamboo flute
An ensemble of Shamisen, Koto, and Shakuhachi is called a sankyoku.Japanese Instruments
Slide8There are three major types of classical music in Thailand:
Piphat
, Khruang Sai, and
Mahori
.
Most of the music has small
ching hand cymbals and wooden sticks to mark the beat.The QeejKhong Wong is a circle of gongs similar to the instruments of the Indonesian Gamelan
Music of Thailand
Slide9A gamelan is a set of gong instruments that are struck with padded sticks
Gamelan
is mainly from the islands of Bali and JavaA gamelan cannot be separated into individual instruments or interchangedGamelan music uses unique scales, or sets of notes, that sound strange to our ears.
Indonesian Gamelan