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| | China: National Geographic World Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | China is the home of one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and is also home to the earliest musical scale in recorded human history. |
 | | Major principalities in China competed to attract artists, scholars, diplomats, and engineers and, of course, musicians to adorn their courts. |
 | | With prolonged Western contact in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, China was exposed to many new forms of music, and while many foreign forms have found a niche there, the old classical forms still persist alongside them. |
| worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/china_170 (737 words) |
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