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The term refers to the five musical notes that rise in pitch, from gong (宫), shang (商), jue (角), zhi (徵), to yu (羽), which correspond roughly to the notes of 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 in today's numbered musical notation. When a zhi minus is placed before zhi and a gong plus after yu, this pentatonic scale becomes heptatonic. Such division of the musical notes gives rise to a variety of tunes. Although Chinese classical music based on a five-note scale does not vary that much, it retains the beauty of a simple, quiet, and lyrical style. As ancient refined music and folksongs were mostly based on a five-note scale, this term often referred to music in general 去书内
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    Wu Yin stands for China’s pentatonic scale made up of five ascending musical notes: gong, shang, jue, zhi and yu, which roughly equal the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 in modern numbered musical notation. If we add bian zhi before zhi and bian gong after yu, the five-note scale will develop into a seven-note heptatonic scale, and more detailed note divisions can produce more varied melodies. Though ancient classical music built on the pentatonic scale has fewer changes, it owns a distinctive beauty that is simple, plain, peaceful and melodic. Since ancient elegant ritual music and folk songs mostly adopted this five-note scale, the phrase “the Five Notes” is often used to refer to music as a whole.

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