Editing Music (section)

=== Asian cultures ===
{{Main|Music of Asia}}
Asian music covers a swath of music cultures surveyed in the articles on [[Arabic music|Arabia]], [[Central Asian music|Central Asia]], [[East Asian music|East Asia]], [[South Asian music|South Asia]], and [[Southeast Asian music|Southeast Asia]]. Several have traditions reaching into antiquity.
[[File:Raja Ravi Varma, Galaxy of Musicians.jpg|thumb|left|Indian women dressed in regional attire playing a variety of musical instruments popular in different parts of India]]

[[Indian classical music]] is one of the oldest musical traditions in the world.<ref>Richard O. Nidel, ''World Music: The Basics'', p. 219.</ref> Sculptures from the [[Indus Valley civilization]] show dance<ref>Charles Kahn, ''World History: Societies of the Past'', p. 98.</ref> and old musical instruments, like the seven-holed flute. Stringed instruments and drums have been recovered from [[Harappa]] and [[Mohenjo-daro|Mohenjo Daro]] by excavations carried out by [[Mortimer Wheeler]].<ref>World History: Societies of the Past By Charles Kahn (p. 11)</ref> The [[Rigveda]], an ancient Hindu text, has elements of present Indian music, with musical notation to denote the meter and mode of chanting.<ref>World Music: The Basics By Nidel Nidel, Richard O. Nidel (p. 10)</ref> Indian classical music (marga) is [[monophonic]], and based on a single melody line or [[raga]] rhythmically organized through [[Tala (music)|talas]]. The poem ''[[Cilappatikaram]]'' provides information about how new scales can be formed by modal shifting of the tonic from an existing scale.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rajagopal |first=Geetha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SgVPAQAAIAAJ |title=Music rituals in the temples of South India, Volume 1 |publisher=D. K. Printworld |year=2009 |isbn=978-81-246-0538-7 |pages=111–112 |access-date=29 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214064955/https://books.google.com/books?id=SgVPAQAAIAAJ |archive-date=14 December 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Present day [[Hindustani classical music|Hindi music]] was influenced by [[Persian traditional music]] and [[Music of Afghanistan|Afghan]] Mughals. [[Carnatic music]], popular in the southern states, is largely devotional; the majority of the songs are addressed to the Hindu deities. There are songs emphasizing love and other social issues.

[[File:Traditional indonesian instruments02.jpg|thumb|Indonesia is the home of [[gong chime]], there are variants across Indonesia, especially in [[Music of Java|Java]] and [[Music of Bali|Bali]].]]
[[Music of Indonesia|Indonesian music]] has been formed since the [[Bronze Age]] culture migrated to the [[Indonesian archipelago]] in the 2nd-3rd centuries BCE. Indonesian traditional music uses percussion instruments, especially [[kendang]] and [[gong]]s. Some of them developed elaborate and distinctive instruments, such as the [[sasando]] stringed instrument on the island of Rote, the [[Sundanese people|Sundanese]] [[angklung]], and the complex and sophisticated [[Javanese people|Javanese]] and [[Balinese people|Balinese]] [[gamelan]] orchestras. Indonesia is the home of [[gong chime]], a general term for a set of small, high pitched pot gongs. Gongs are usually placed in order of note, with the boss up on a string held in a low wooden frame. The most popular form of Indonesian music is gamelan, an ensemble of tuned [[percussion instrument]]s that include [[metallophone]]s, [[kendang|drums]], [[gong]]s and [[spike fiddle]]s along with [[bamboo]] [[suling]] (like a [[flute]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-gamelan-195131|title=History of Gamelan, Indonesian Music and Dance |first1=Kallie |last1=Szczepanski |date=June 26, 2019 |website=ThoughtCo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/gamelan|title=Gamelan &#124; Indonesian Orchestra, Traditional Instruments & Javanese Culture |website=Britannica |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231203211421/https://www.britannica.com/art/gamelan |archive-date= Dec 3, 2023 }}</ref>

[[Chinese classical music]], the traditional art or court music of China, has a history stretching over about 3,000 years. It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or genres. Chinese music is [[pentatonic]]-[[diatonic]], having a scale of twelve notes to an octave (5&nbsp;+&nbsp;7&nbsp;=&nbsp;12) as does European-influenced music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/Chinese-music/Tonal-system-and-its-theoretical-rationalization|title=Chinese music - Tonal System, Theoretical Rationalization |website=Britannica |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231230103505/https://www.britannica.com/art/Chinese-music/Tonal-system-and-its-theoretical-rationalization |archive-date= Dec 30, 2023 }}</ref>