Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Chinese Cultural Centre
Call number
LIT.SIW.CHC.d
Library's review
To many people, the words "Chinese Music" conjure up sound-images of strange, eerie noises of dying cats and birds in pain. These ideas of Chinese music apply mainly to Chinese classical music and opera, which are usually written in the pentatonic, or "whole tone scale." This scale omits notes
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usually found in Western scales and thereby sounds strange to Western ears.(Abstract from first paragraph)
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