“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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Although this selection appears on first inspection to be cast according to one form, it nonetheless is an example of?
a) A B A b) through-composed c) modified strophic d) strophic
Identify the statement that does not apply to the Winchester Troper
A) earliest examples of organum compiled from various sources by Guido of Arezzo and John of St. Gall B) its two-voice polyphony predates the invention of the musical staff, so the notation does not specify relative pitch C) it is not a document for sight-reading, but a memory aid D) it is impossible today to sing the music with any confidence that the performance is accurate