Rhythm and Natural Language in the Chinese and European Culture

Abstract

Appendix 2 of Chapter 6 has been taken into account the classification of the arts in the two main cultures. In Chinese culture, the music was made in the first place: “Music, discipline related to hearing and also to sophisticated processes that regulate vibrations. It is the practice of the inner qi. It concerns also with embodiment referred to the musical rhythms. Today we know that it is related to natural language and numbers learning”. In European culture, the music is part of the quadrivium of the arts and is considered one of the sciences together with arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.