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Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale is pentatonic. ... Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.

The music often looks to represent natural sounds, and the sounds of life, through percussion, wind and stringed instruments. An interesting feature of classical Japanese music is its sparse rhythm and absence of regular chords. All of the rhythms are 'ma'-based and silence is an important part of the songs.

The music of Korea refers to music from the Korean peninsula ranging from prehistoric times to the division of Korea into South and North in 1945. It includes court music, folk music, poetic songs, and religious music used in shamanistic and Buddhist traditions.