RTA 530 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pole Dance, Hani People, Qing Dynasty
23 Mar 2018
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8. 41% are the other 55 ethnic groups. Han chinese can be easily found in amost every part of china, and mainly live in the missle and lower regions of the yellow river, ysngtze river and pearl river and also in the. There are 55 ethnic minorities distributed throughout china, mostly concentrated in the southwest, northwest, and northeast. The yunnan province has 25 ethnic minority groups. It was a staging post on the northern silk road, and a meeting point for chinese and central asian culture. Uygur music is modal, often uses microtones with notes less than step apart. There are 12 main uygur maqamat (modes) with disjunction melodies. It is heavily influenced by middle- eastern music and the music style is very robust. It often uses repeated motifs and successive repetition of notes within motifs an also uses complex meters. It a musical form that has spread in the islamic areas throughout the world.
