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 Indian Classical music | | Carnatic music Its classical tradition is from the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, and its area roughly corresponds to the four modern states of South India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu | | Chinese Classical music | | According to Mencius, a powerful ruler once asked him whether it was moral if he
preferred popular music to the classics. The answer was that it only mattered that the
ruler love his subjects. | | Arab classical music | | The development of Arabic music has deep roots in Arabic poetry dating back to the pre-Islamic period known as Jahiliyyah. Though there is a lack of scientific study to
definitively confirm the existence of Arabic music at those times, most historians agree
that there existed distinct forms of music in the Arabian peninsula in the pre-Islamic
period between the 5th and the 7th century AD | | Persian music | | Persian traditional music (also known as Iranian traditional music, Musiqi-e Sonati-e
Irani, also Persian classical music or Iranian classical music, Musiqi-e Assil-e Irani) is
the traditional and indigenous music of Iran and Persian-speaking countries: musiqi, the
science and art of music, and moosiqi, the sound and performance of music (Sakata 1983). | | Music of Greece | | Greek written history extends far back into Ancient Greece, and was a major part of
ancient Greek theater. In ancient Greece, mixed-gender choruses performed for
entertainment, celebration and spiritual reasons. Instruments included the double-reed
aulos and the plucked string instrument, the lyre, especially the special kind called a kithara. | |
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