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Which scale is traditionally used in most asian music?

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Twelve tone (dodeacphonic) has influenced the Chinese for many centuries. Japanese is based on pentatonic or heptatonic scales.
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Traditional Asian music used Twelve tone (dodeacphonic) has influenced the Chinese for many centuries. Japanese is based on pentatonic or heptatonic scales

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The traditional music of Asia includes the artistic traditional music of China, Japan and Korea. The traditional Asian music used 12 tones of Chinese system. Japanese music follows the Asian tradition and use seven tone scales. The idea of Chinese music was concerned with modes and transposition. They can be constructed with 3 pitches.

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