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Music tells us something about a culture. What does the music of your country reveal about the culture of your country? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
Music, spreading in a country, demonstrated many aspects of this country’s culture obviously and was composed by the musician who was influenced by specific background such as generation, location and culture. We can easily discover amount of clues that related to cultural events from the variety of local music. China, one of the most original countries of civilization and covering with the mist of mystery, was called as “secret oriental”. The Chinese music absolutely illustrates the culture which blends into our daily life such as harmony, focus of the agriculture and conservatism. Harmony occupies a significant status in the Chinese culture. A large number of Chinese traditional music, created by the normal not the professional , which did not have any lyric and hardly obsess any method like note or score to record it. This music which reflects feeling about composer’s daily life and attitude towards environment is singing in the natural place, for instance hill, river bank, forest and so on. It becomes as an element of nature and never be recognized as noise because of gentility and peace that appear harmony between human and nature. In addition, it contemporarily reveals conservatism in Chinese culture. The almost of the tones of Chinese traditional music are smooth and ordinary that show Chinese people don’t like radicalism and aggressiveness. The famous Chinese musician, xxx, after his got a astonishing accomplishment, he is still living in a poor house in countryside keeping traditional life style. When you hear his euphonious music, the feeling like locating in classical Chinese village, that because he is a conservative person. More importantly, the lyric of music expresses the Chinese people focus on agriculture what cause some socialist claimed Chinese culture is “agriculture culture”. This kind of music usually made by farmers who need to remember the period of crop growing and trifles during the daily life. For example, the lyric included which season they needed to seeding, how many times they needed to irrigate even how many pigs they needed to kill. The farmer sings this sort of songs during tedious work in filed for amusing themselves. Conclusively,___________________________---- |