Chinese Music --- I, II, III, IV

Chinese melody is ordinarily based on a 5-tone (pentatonic) scale, although additional pitches can be introduced.  Expressiveness, however, is often less a function of melodic patterns than of the individual note, which carries cosmological connotations. This emphasis on the single tone raises timbre to a position of enormous importance, and Chinese musicians have employed with immense skill the range of coloristic possibilities afforded by their instruments and voices.

As with the tradition of Ba Gua (as with Eight Diagram of Daoism, traditional Chinese musical instrument would be made of mainly eight materials: skin (drum), gourd (sheng), bamboo (flute), wood (clapper), silk (Gu Zheng), earth/clay (xun), metal (gong) and stone (Qing - ch'ing).

Music link

The Internet Chinese Music Archive
Chinese Instrument Music (Chinese language only)
Lake in the Morning (Chinese Music Instrument Store)
Ancient Melodies
Chinese Music Society
Chinese Music Web