Searching for New Sound - Music Composition ideas

 A composer who could write music from European, Central Asia, India, Korea, Japan, North Africa, South Asia tradition and where the local musicologists or musicians praise his understanding of the local culture. He could improvise based on Indian rag, performing with the ensemble of Japanese gagaku (court music). He was Alan Hovhaness (1911 – 2000), an American-Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers. His music was full of inspiration from the East. I don't know him until recently. He did not catch any frame until his mid-composition career and lots of his early composition was destroyed by himself. It is hard to trace his music in his early period and give a solid conclusion of why his music did not catch public attention. At the time of the early-mid 20th century, the general composers in America didn't have a deep understanding of Eastern culture. The US composer either fellowed the traditional European tradition, jazz, or went experientia...

Orientalism, things from the East from the European point of view. this word is an umbrella term that is too big to conclude. Like the continent 'Asia' from Turkey to Indonesia, meaning half of the globe. To be specific, I am from the far east cultural circle, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand region that are historically closely connected. There has been a long history of European artists portraying the east, as an easterner, I would like to judge the approaches in music. Ultimately, composers have the creative right to compose what they want, but observing their approach is also a way of learning. Level 1: Just the title In Tchaikovsky's Chinese Dance in Nutcracker Suite, the music hardly find any Chinese music influence, I played this music to my friends who do not have any musical knowledge. If I did not mention the title, they just think this is nice western classical music. The costume design in the ballet may use Chinese design, but musically, completely in West...