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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.
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| == Vocal music ==
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| For Zzeans, non-"coarse-melody" elements such as rhythm, ornamentation, and scale choice are paramount for distinguishing singing from normal speech.
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| Zzean singing traditions include:
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| * an intoned singing tradition
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| * hiphop/rap (speech with stylized rhythm and sometimes autotune)
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| * a religious chanting tradition with much ornamentation
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| * something really weird and independent from Cuam music's weirdness
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| == Scales ==
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| Zzean music is abstractly based on a pentatonic framework (though a variety of pentatonic scales may be used), onto which the five tone levels of Zzean are mapped. Seven-note scales are viewed as ways to ornament 5-note scales.
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