把亚洲诸民族的音乐统称为“亚洲音乐”是很困难的。如同欧洲音乐一样,由于历史上各民族间长期的文化交流所形成的共同的音乐理论基础,便导致了许多不同国家和地区使用相同的乐器、乐谱及乐语等状况的出现。尽管如此,但作为欧洲诸民族的音乐文化的本身,则仍然保持着各自鲜明的民族音乐文化特点。由此可见,若从文化这一角度出发,按照地理位置的划分,将亚洲诸民族的音乐归结为一个概念——“亚洲音乐”,实际上是没有什么意义的。此外,所谓“东方音乐”之说,是欧洲人相对于“西方音乐”提出的另一概念。欧洲人认为,在文化上能与它们相匹敌的 It is very difficult to collectively refer to the music of Asian peoples as “Asian music.” Like European music, the common musical theory found through long-term cultural exchange among all ethnic groups in history has led to the emergence of the same instruments, musical scores and musical expressions in many different countries and regions. Nevertheless, as the music culture itself of European nations, it still maintains its distinctive distinctive national musical culture. From this, we can see that it is practically meaningless if we regard the music of Asian peoples as a concept - “Asian music” in terms of culture and geographical division. In addition, the so-called “Oriental Music” is another concept proposed by Europeans over “Western Music.” Europeans think that they are culturally comparable to them