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The Music of Asia A BREIF overview The Music of Asia A BREIF overview

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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

Slide2

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!

Slide3

Chinese 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

Slide4

Sizhu

(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

Slide5

Erhu

(

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

Slide6

Taiko

: 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

Slide7

Shamisen

:

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

Slide8

There 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

Slide9

A 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