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-Owing to the large number of tones in the Zzean language, how Zzeans perform or view as music is significantly different from mainstream Western or East Asian views.
-== Vocal music ==
-For Zzeans, non-"tonal" elements such as rhythm, ornamentation, and scale choice are paramount for distinguishing singing from normal speech.
-Zzean singing traditions include:
-* an intoned singing tradition
-* hiphop/rap (speech with stylized rhythm and sometimes autotune)
-* a religious chanting tradition with much ornamentation
-* something really weird and independent from [[Cuam]] music's weirdness
-Choral vocal music that uses big block chords is wordless; polyphonic word-ful singing is used in specialized contexts.
-== Instrumental music ==
-The boundary between vocal and instrumental music is ill-defined, as pitched instruments can "speak" by imitating the tones of speech. One can also choose to play instruments in a more "relaxed" or "conversational" manner by playing in speech-like contours rather than song-like ones, the same way as voice can.
-=== Instruments ===
-* a shruti box that plays 5-note drones for guiding singing
-* "talking" drums, trombones and fretless bowed strings
-== Scales ==
-Zzean music is abstractly based on a pentatonic framework, onto which the five tone levels of Zzean are mapped. Seven-note scales are viewed as ways to ornament 5-note scales. However, not all Zzean pentatonic scales are octave-equivalent.

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