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- Title
WU XING 五行 AND WU SHENG 五声 IN CHINESE MUSIC CULTURE.
- Authors
PUSHKARSKAYA, Natalya V.; GARRIDO, Valeriia V.
- Abstract
This paper addresses the links between the ancient China’s concept of wu xing ( 五 行) and Chinese music culture. The key element of China's musical tradition is a five-tone scale – a pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scale, or five tones (wu sheng, 五声), and the twelve-tone musical system shi er lü (十二律) are an integral part of the ancient Chinese culture of yin yang (阴阳) and wu xing (五行); apparently it is based (along with binary and tertiary approaches) on a notion of “quinary”, or a quinary classification. Also, the paper discusses various views on the pentatonic scale origin and development in China, the interrelationship and links between the pentatonic scale and music system of shi er lü (十 二 律).
- Subjects
CHINESE philosophy; MUSICAL intervals &; scales; FIVE agents (Chinese philosophy); PENTATONIC scales; MUSIC theory
- Publication
Astra Salvensis, 2020, p507
- ISSN
2344-1887
- Publication type
Article