Traditional music of the far east is largely:

In the Far East, traditional music is largely monophonic.

In the Far East, many Asian civilizations distinguish between art/court/classical styles and "folk" music, though cultures that do not depend greatly upon notation and have much anonymous art music must distinguish the two in different ways from those suggested by western scholars. 

Traditional music of the Middle and Far East is typically polyphonic. "Homophonic" describes a single-voiced texture without accompaniment. In imitation, a melodic idea in one voice is restated in another. A canon is a type of homophony.

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