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In East Asia, the scale is based on the first note. East Asian music only makes use of five types of instruments. East Asian scales are based on mathematical formulas, in which the distance between notes is decided by ratios of pitches.
China - Traditional music in china is played on solo instruments or in ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.
Korea - The music of Korea refers to music from the Korean peninsula ranging from prehistoric times to the division of Korea into South and North in 1945. It includes court music, folk music, poetic songs, and religious music used in shamanistic and Buddhist traditions. Together, traditional Korean music is referred to as gugak (Hangul: 국악), which literally means "national music."
Japan - Musical elements reflect the culture by portraying and showing the history of music. The music often looks to represent natural sounds, and the sounds of life, through percussion, wind and stringed instruments. An interesting feature of classical Japanese music is its sparse rhythm and absence of regular chords. All of the rhythms are 'ma'-based and silence is an important part of the songs.
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