This thesis offers results and exploration to fill in this distinct gap in the literature. As such, it tries to find eastern-western musical contact and patterns of integration.This thesis explores mutual interest and assimilation of music between the Iberian Peninsula and China, representing the two farthest civilizations on the Eurasian continent, in both early history and the recent few decades. These are both important periods of time for study.The first period that this thesis examines is around 600-900 CE. This is prominent because it is the period of first sustained and well-documented...