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Chinese Damaru - musical instruments, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chinese Damaru - musical instruments, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Archaeological evidence indicates that music culture developed in China from a very early period. Excavations in Jiahu Village in Wuyang County, Henan found bone flutes dated to 9,000 years ago, and clay music instruments called Xun thought to be 7,000 years old have been found in the Hemudu sites in Zhejiang and Banpo in Xi'an. A set of bronze bells called bianzhong c. 5th century B.C. from Hubei During the Zhou dynasty, a formal system of court and ceremonial music later termed yayue (meaning "elegant music") was established. The most important set of music of the period was the Six-dynasty Music Dance (六代樂舞) performed in rituals in the royal court. Music in the Zhou Dynasty was conceived as a cosmological manifestation of the sound of nature integrated into the binary universal order of yin and yang, and this concept has enduring influence later Chinese thinking on music. "Correct" music according to Zhou concept would involve instruments correlating to the five elements of nature and would bring harmony to nature. Around or before the 7th century BC, a system of pitch generation and pentatonic scale was derived from a cycle-of-fifths theory.

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1801 - 1900
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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