The outstanding Asian music

Asia, a territory full of culture

Asia is an interesting territory full of culture, amazing landscapes, ancient languages, stunning historical constructions and exquisite gastronomy. Nevertheless, Asia is more than beautiful natural sceneries and important landmarks. Throughout the centuries, people who were born in this millenary land have demonstrated an outstanding ability in arts. There are a large number of famous painters, sculptors and musicians from different countries around this continent.

Chinese music

Probably, China is the nation that has developed music into a different level of improvement. In fact, Chinese music started with the ancient civilizations. There are several documents that revealed evidence about music culture in China during the Zhou Dynasty in the 1122 BC- 256 BC. Since then, music has been considered a crucial part in China’s higher education.  

Music jobs in china

Nowadays, the music carries on tradition the same rich cultural heritage and includes many professional musicians such as Christopher Loh, Leslie Cheung, Chan wing-wah, Cui Jian, Du Mingxing just to mention a few. An interesting fact about Chinese music is that many western people visit the different cities of China in order to apply to a Music School. China has many music jobs available in principal cities like Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Chinese instruments

Over the centuries, music has been one of the most favorite artistic disciplines in China. It actually dates back approximately 7,000 years ago. Furthermore, people from China have created and improved plenty of important musical instruments. The musical instruments of China are divided and classified into three kinds which include: String musical instruments, Bowed String musical instruments and the Plucked String musical instruments. Here is list of the respective types of chinese instruments:

String Instruments:

• Pipa
• Liuqin
• Sanxian
• Ruan
• Yueqin
• Guqin

Bowed string Instruments:

• Erhu
• Zhong- Hu
• Jing-Hu
• Ban-Hu

Plucked string instruments:

• Yangzi

Music in japan

Japan is another powerful country that is located in Asia and has taken music into different levels and now it shines in its entire splendor around the world. In fact, the Music in japan is quite interesting; the majority of the musical pieces combine the traditional Japanese music with modern style. There are an incalculable number of Japanese musicians. As an example we can mention some important musicians such as Sakamoto Ryuichi, Suzuki Hiderato, Suwanai Akiko, Tomita Isao and Yumi Yoshimura.