What is the origin of qin music? What system of written notation is used for the qin? What about this notational system encouraged individual interpretation
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• "For much of its extensive history the instrument was associated with the elite scholar-officials who governed the Chinese empire." The qin was played by many highly cultivated amateur musicians either alone for self-cultivation or among a small group of like-minded friends (literati). Poetry and Chinese calligraphy were combined into qin songs. "Many qin pieces, like paintings, treated historical or programmatic scenes."
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