Music {Asian music} can have melody and rhythm, uses pentatonic scale, has no harmony, uses chords with no key relations, and uses tetrachord.
Music {Greek music} can use two, three, or four long and short syllable meters. Different meters can be in one song. Melodies have small tone changes, with no harmony, but use tetrachords.
Persian musical system has seven modes {khosravani} {khusravani}, thirty derivative modes {magham} {lahn}, and three hundred sixty melodies {dastan}.
Music {Cuban music} can have European, folk, sacred, and jazz roots.
Cuban popular dance music {son, Cuba} can be from Oriente province. Son includes Son-montuno, Afro-son, and Guajira-son {changui}. Slower son {Guajira} has piano or guitar arpeggios, as in the song Guantanamera. Son can have ballads {bolero, music}.
Son is basis of salsa, which has derivatives {songo} and {timba}.
Flamenco has an offshoot {zapateo}.
Folk music {rumba, music} has drums and call-and-response singing.
Lucumi-religion sacred music {Yoruba music} uses bata drums.
European dance styles evolved {danzón}. Danzon has section {nuevo ritmo}, which evolved in 1940s and 1950s {mambo, music}. Mambo has a branch {cha-cha, music}.
Jazz has a branch {descarga}.
Music can be for Carnaval in Mozambique {conga, music}.
Instrumental music uses flutes and violins {pachanga} {charanga}.
Dance music from Pilón is about sugarcane pounding {pilón}.
instruments
Instruments are lute-like or mandolin-like {laud, instrument}, claves, maracas, ukelele {cuatro} {tiple}, lute {charango}, ocarina {zampona}, panpipes {antara}, thumb piano, cowbell, bongo drums, conga drum {tumba} {nino}, and three-stringed guitar {tres, guitar}. Instruments can be gourds with notches scraped by a stick {guiro} {guayo} {cacho}. Instruments can be wooden spools with metal beads {cabaca}.
Persian Sassanid songs {surud} used khosravani, lakui, or uramani form.
Music {Thai music} can use 18-bar phrases.
Cheo is popular opera {Vietnamese music}, typically using clowns, from near Red River. Tuong is classical opera of 17th and 18th centuries, from south center. Cai Luong is from Mekong River delta and sings character thoughts. Music accompanies water puppets. Quan Ho is folk songs from Bac Ninh in north.
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