Download Qin or Guqin

CHINESE QIN MUSIC
Qin or Guqin – What is it?
Plucked seven-string Chinese musical
instrument
Guqin – What is it?
Guqin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8F0G4QEQYg
Guzheng - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-VyhDGvWBo
Qin – How was its music
written down?
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Use of chart to indicate the
fingering and various finger
techniques (pluck, stop, touch
etc.)
Indication of pitch and rhythm is
minimal
Tablature form (fingering)
instead of staff notation form
(pitch)
Da-pu, a process of transcribing
ancient tablatures into playable
form is required in performing
Guqin music
Qin – Common Playing
Technique
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“Scattered Sounds” – Open
strings
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“Floating Sounds” – Harmonics
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“Stopped Sounds” – Pressed
strings
Qin – Commonly used
pitches
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Recall – Major and/or Minor
scale in Western Music
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Like most ancient Chinese tunes,
Guqin music is mostly based on
the major pentatonic scale
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An example, C/D/E/G/A/C
or D/E/G/A/B/D
Qin – Musical Essentials
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Western Music – Focus is on
Harmony
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Recall 12-bar blues – Bass
progression (foundation of
Harmony) is the “identity” and
“driving force”
Chinese Guqin Music – Focus is
on Instrumental Timbre
(instrumental “colours”)
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Recall the different varieties of
“sounds” in the music – including
scrapping of the string, pitch
bending, glissando, harmonics etc.