"symbols of common meaning" in the sound implementation of texts in far eastern culture

The article is devoted to how sound is perceived as a kind of independent cultural category in different civilizational systems and is symbolically identified in different ways. Using the example of the musical culture of the Far East countries, the authors analyze the so-called “Symbols of Common Meaning” that have developed in this civilization, which underlie the construction of ritual and secular classical musical texts — that is generally called “musical thinking”. © 2021, Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk, Institut Istorii (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of General Hist. All rights reserved.