What is the general form of the selection? Describe some of the tonal subtleties you hear being played on the qin. (Answers may vary.)

What will be an ideal response?

• Short introduction followed by three sections—which successively develop and extend the same material—and ended with a free-meter coda
• Harmonics - lightly stopping a string while plucking it; sliding from tone to tone; legato sound – multiple tones coming from one pluck; alternating between an open and stopped string, or between a soft and strong pluck, or between a clean attack of the tone and a slide into the tone; vibrato – a slight pulsating in the pitch of a tone, which is though to add richness to the tone; pitch-bending - pressing a stopped string to produce a rise in pitch