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• Chinese music: Bibliography - Bibliography See J. H. Levis, Foundations of Chinese Musical Art (2d ed. 1964); E. Halson, Peking ...
• Chinese music: Origins and Characteristics - Origins and Characteristics Chinese music can be traced back as far as the third millennium B.C. ...
• Chinese music: Modern History - Modern History Throughout the political and social turmoil following World War I, Western ...
• Chinese music: Tone and the Instruments - Tone and the Instruments In Chinese music, the single tone is of greater significance than melody; ...
• Chinese music: Musical Notation - Musical Notation Several types of notation were used. Singers used the syllabic symbols for the ...

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