1. Different tones of the musical series

Oriental music is mainly five-tone, with palace, business, angle, sign and feather, and many unvoiced sounds. Western music mainly uses seven tones, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, of which 4 and 7 are two semitones, so voiced sounds appear.

Oriental music and western music are two big conceptual categories. Oriental music includes music from many countries, not only China, but also many other eastern countries. Music from different countries has very different regional characteristics in hearing because of different modes. Western music also includes music from many countries, and the music from different countries such as Germany, Austria and France is different.

Don't say that there are differences between the East and the West, that is, the music of different provinces and ethnic minorities in the same country is sometimes quite different, which is the difference in style.

China's traditional music is mainly based on five tones, while the western music is based on big and small tones, while China's traditional music is relatively simple. The colors of western music vary a lot, but they are not absolute. Different countries also have similar music.

Music is interlinked all over the world, borderless, interactive and integrated.

2. Differences in classical music

On the technical level, western classical music is theoretical and standardized, with a large number of written and audio documents, which are easy to spread; China traditional music, however, does not have a complete set of composing theories and rules, and is easily lost. China's traditional music is dominated by lines, while western classical music pays more attention to harmony.

China traditional music pays attention to breath, while western classical music pays more attention to rhythm. The biggest technical difference between them lies in timbre and playing method. On the artistic level, China's traditional music mainly expresses the thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and emphasizes understanding and wisdom, so it is subjective. Western classical music emphasizes aesthetics and functionality, so it is more objective.

The performance characteristics of China's traditional music realm are different from those of western classical music. Western classical music is good at being profound and serious, highlighting the opposition between subject and object, and most of them are full of drama or tragedy, which reflects the "grandeur" of an artistic spirit; However, China's traditional music is good at being broad-minded and profound, emphasizing the blending of "emotion" and "scenery", and unifying the subject and object, which reflects a kind of "beautiful" spirit of "harmony".

Generally speaking, the classical traditional symphonies in western countries can best reflect the thinking equations of westerners. The vocal music waves of western symphonies are advanced in several different timbres, divided into several sections, and dissolved into the natural sounds of simulated creatures. The fine undulating instrumental sound energy can make the audience sort out a trace of continuity from the chaotic present, thus making people's thinking gradually tend to be rational.

If vocal music waves are used, the sound wave progression of this kind of symphony in the west has a similar pulse with the mental progress of human brain. Therefore, from this aspect, the symphonies of western music masters have more or less influenced the qualitative thinking of westerners. For the time being, we call the western music wave "the pulsating music wave of auxiliary thinking".

At present, it seems that only some traditional Chinese opera music is popular in China. Through careful analysis of the vocal music of these traditional operas, it is found that our opera music stays in a plane of feeling. No matter from the singing style of operas or the spectrum of opera vocal music, our traditional opera vocal music always jumps peacefully, making gradual jumps with curve radian. The biggest feature of this kind of vocal music is that it has similar pulsation with people's hidden emotional nerve thinking.

3. Differences in pop music

There are some popular misunderstandings in the domestic pop music market at present. Our domestic popular vocal music stays in a very superficial vocal music, and the biggest feature of this kind of popular vocal music band is that the wave is low and the pulse is flat.

From a deeper point of view, it is necessary to run in the nerve pulsation several times before the pulsating waves of this kind of sound waves can be forcibly accepted in the memory nerve. Therefore, this kind of popular vocal music wave is named' Neuropassive Pulsating Vocal Music Wave'.

Let's talk about some popular music in the west now: the biggest vocal feature of western pop music is that the vocal wave is close to human nerve conduction. When we stay in that kind of vocal music for a long time, we will inevitably adjust our own nervous rhythm with that kind of vocal music, and we will inevitably dance. Therefore, this kind of vocal music wave is named' nerve-forced pulsating vocal music wave'.

expanded materials

In the discourse system of China's music theory, "theory" is the core word, while "China music" modifies "theory", while "discourse system" is the way in which "theory" and its knowledge system are expressed by means of language.

in order to establish "the discourse system of China's music theory", we must first clarify the basic music theory of China traditional music.

Music takes sound as the medium. Among the four physical characteristics of sound, pitch and sound length are more important, which is the focus of various basic music theories.

Pitch includes issues such as musical tone, musical tone system, rhythm, scale, elevation, mode and mode, while sound length includes issues such as beat, rhythm, beat and speed.

In terms of pitch, other concepts are based on "musical tone". The concept and structure of "musical tone" is the "deep structure" of pitch, while the problems of musical tone system, law, scale, elevation, mode and mode are the "surface structure".

in the aspect of sound length, rhythm, beat, board eye, etc. are all based on beat value, so beat value is the deep structure of sound length, while the problems of rhythm, beat, board eye, etc. are the surface structure.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Music (Music Culture)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Western Classical Music

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