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Music in cultural system:
In general, relation to the end of 20th century is changing. It stopped considering by Europeans as event standing in line with other European arts, but considered as part of culture (youth, public, farmers, city, mass, elite, European, American, African, Japanese, eastern, Russian etc.). Traditionally European understanding of music formed within the frame work of study of art musical esthetic, theory of music and history of music, musical ethnography (folkloristic), was added with new understanding about the music appeared in new scientific disciplines comparative musicology, musical anthropology and musical cultural science.
Analysis of specific nature of understanding of music in traditional cultures of world nations found significant differences in answers to the question: "what is music?
Answers to this question from representatives of different cultures are different. What ever music for some people, for others it is not at all music. For example for Berlioza city singing of Chinese people in traditional opera, where ladies character is executed by men singing with high falsetto, is intolerable and worse than cat howling. For Muslim, singing of Koran in mosque is not music (In Arabian. musiki), at the same time for European this is a music, which can be analyzed as other types of "musical art" within the scope of music science. Existing variety of types of music in European culture also give birth to variety of tastes and favors within the musical followers. For some people only classical music is the music, and such as leading or rock music not a music.
Conception about the music, as term itself in European culture, not always is present in other world cultures. For example, for majority nations of Africa, Oceania, American red Indians, it traditionally differs from other areas of life. Here musical presentation as a rule is not separable from ritual actions related to hunting, ceremony of initiation, wedding, military assembly, worship to ancestors etc. Conception about the music for some tribes for some time is absent at all, there is no term music and its analogues. While attempting to highlight especially musical events and describe that, which is for Europeans music obviously banging of sticks, jingling of hunting bows, playing on drums, flutes sung together or single motifs etc natives, for example, Oceania explain, as a rule myths and different types of fairy tails. They explain origins of different musical events, which appear in some other world and have come in to this world from super natural forces (gods, spirits, totem ancestors) or sound events of nature (thunderstorms, sounding of tropical jungle, singing of birds, shouts of wild animals etc.); often indicated on birth of musical instruments and musical abilities of human being in the world of spirits or genies (spirits of forest, died people, gods).
In those countries of world, where westernization of culture influenced significantly, generally term music itself and European understanding of music is accepted. Ensembles of public (folklore) music are being created, musical festivals are being organized, musical educational institutions (institutes, conservatories), symphony orchestra, national composing schools are being created In cities of Africa and Asia.
Individual understanding about music, which generally has specific level of professionalism but finds syncretism nature and does not highlighted as in system of European culture, is appearing in ancient cultures and medieval cities of Asia, in court traditions of China, India, South east Asia Islamized nations of Near and Middle east. Like that, in China, where Greece concept Music was not known, music was traditionally linked with palace ritual (li), in which it was determined by common term yue; in ancient India with theater and pantomime (Sangita), with presentations about feeling (Rasa) and color (Varna); in Islamic culture with author literature poetic tradition, with art of singing of rhymes (as-sana).
Similar to the ancient Greece and medieval Europe, in many civilizations of East, own studies about musical elements were appeared. In this case, ancient and medieval musicians and thinkers have designated the same musical structures, which are the basis of western European musical theory, with special terms. In basis of some musical sciences of Asia, basic concepts like: sound, tone, metro-ritmika (Arab. "ika", india "tala"); lad and etc. are present.
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