“The scholar-administrators whose emblem . . . [the qin] was are long gone . . .” What is the place of this softly played solo music in today’s “fast-paced, energetic China”?
What will be an ideal response?
• "Today quite a few people play the qin. . . [T]his restrained, sensitive and flexible music . . . [requires] listening with increased concentration and cultivating the ‘way of the qin', that is listening with the ear, the heart and the mind and [this] has as much relevance as it did two thousand years ago."
Chinese Music for the Piano
CD 2:16 Liao Shengjing's "The Joyous Festival of Lunar New Year's Day" (Piano Solo)
Read the discussion of this music in WOM. Follow the Close Listening guide as you listen to the example.
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