Time: 2pm - 5pm USA Eastern Time
Location: On-line Zoom
Total 18 people joined this meeting.
Qin playing (To watch the video of clips of everyone's qin playing)
Alan Yip (US) - Dao Yi 搗衣 (Pounding Cloth)
* Dao Yi was composed during the Tang dynasty. In the cool autumn season, women in every family rush to make winter clothes for their loved ones, so they need to first wash and pounding the cloth. This music shows women's longing for their loved ones in the distance.
* Dao Yi was composed during the Tang dynasty. In the cool autumn season, women in every family rush to make winter clothes for their loved ones, so they need to first wash and pounding the cloth. This music shows women's longing for their loved ones in the distance.
Esmeralda Herrero (Ireland) - Mei Hua San Nong 梅花三弄 (Three Variations on the Plum Blossom)
*From Wumen Qinpu
*From Wumen Qinpu
Jing Wang (UK) - Yue Ren Ge 越人歌 (Song of Yue Boatman)
*The lyrics is from an ancient Chinese poem around 528BC. see the lyrics of Yue Boatman. The qin melody is based on a movie music by Mr. Tan Dun and Mr. Yang Qing adopt on the guqin.
*The lyrics is from an ancient Chinese poem around 528BC. see the lyrics of Yue Boatman. The qin melody is based on a movie music by Mr. Tan Dun and Mr. Yang Qing adopt on the guqin.
Jim Binkley (US) - Journey to Hawaii 逍遙遊
*Composed by Jim himself. To watch Jim's playing of the whole piece.
*Composed by Jim himself. To watch Jim's playing of the whole piece.
Juni L Yeung (Canada) - Zhi Zhao Fei 鴙朝飛 (Pheasant's Morning Flight)
*In Wings Flapping a pheasant cooing in the morning to its mate reminds the narrator, a woman, of her lonely state. Courtesy to John Thompson's site.
*In Wings Flapping a pheasant cooing in the morning to its mate reminds the narrator, a woman, of her lonely state. Courtesy to John Thompson's site.
Peiyou Chang (US) - Guang Ling San 廣陵散 (Short version)
*Guang Ling San (Song of Guang Ling) may have existed since the 1st to 3rd centuries or from the court music of Sui dynasty in the 6th century. Peiyou studied this piece from the Ming dynasty handbook, SQMP. It is a very long piece, with about 42 sections, and more than 20 minutes long, but she played a short version which is about 9 minutes. For more information about the story behind this piece in English and Chinese, one can read from her blog.
This piece has the character of 聲多韻少 more Sheng than Yun (which means more right hand plucking sound than left hand sliding and vibrato sound). Music before the Ming dynasty has this character. After the Ming, qin music has developed to be more Yun than Sheng.
*Guang Ling San (Song of Guang Ling) may have existed since the 1st to 3rd centuries or from the court music of Sui dynasty in the 6th century. Peiyou studied this piece from the Ming dynasty handbook, SQMP. It is a very long piece, with about 42 sections, and more than 20 minutes long, but she played a short version which is about 9 minutes. For more information about the story behind this piece in English and Chinese, one can read from her blog.
This piece has the character of 聲多韻少 more Sheng than Yun (which means more right hand plucking sound than left hand sliding and vibrato sound). Music before the Ming dynasty has this character. After the Ming, qin music has developed to be more Yun than Sheng.
Ralph Knag (US) -- Inspired by the Wise One
*the one peiyou adopt on the qin from the Jazz piece Wise one, from John Coltrane (1926-1967)
*the one peiyou adopt on the qin from the Jazz piece Wise one, from John Coltrane (1926-1967)
Sebastian (Austria) - Wenjun Cao 文君操 (Melody of Wenjun)
*from Ming dynasty handbook Feng Xuan Xuan Pin 鳳宣玄品 (1540). There's the lyrics which is the love story of Sima Xiangru courted to Zhuo Wenjun.
*from Ming dynasty handbook Feng Xuan Xuan Pin 鳳宣玄品 (1540). There's the lyrics which is the love story of Sima Xiangru courted to Zhuo Wenjun.
Stephen Dydo (US) - Yi Gu Ren 憶故人 (Memory of an Old Friend)
*This piece was composed around late Qing dynasty and was first shown in a publication of Shanghai Jin Yu Qin Society 今虞琴刊, in 1936. It was inherited from Mr. Peng Qing-shou's family 彭慶壽祖傳秘譜.
*This piece was composed around late Qing dynasty and was first shown in a publication of Shanghai Jin Yu Qin Society 今虞琴刊, in 1936. It was inherited from Mr. Peng Qing-shou's family 彭慶壽祖傳秘譜.
Qin Talk
André Ribeiro (Brasil) -- Journey of the studying of Pin Sha Luo Yian 平沙落雁 (Wild Geese Landing on a Sandy Shore) (Watch the video of Andre's talk)
Bin Li (US) -- play 3 short pieces of 商意 (The Idea of Shang Mode) as comparisons and talk very briefly his studies of “商” (Shang).
The pieces are:
商調, 事林廣記 (Shang Mode from the Ming dynasty Qin hand book Shi Lin Guang Ji)
商意, 太音大全集 (Shang Idea from the Ming dynasty Qin hand book Taiyin DaQuan Ji)
神品古商意, 神奇秘譜 (Shang Idea from the Ming dynasty Qin hand book Sheng Qi Mi Pu)
Jing Wang -- her calligraphy works of poems in which Qin was being involved.
Jim Binkley --Journey as a Qinmaker - some failures and successes.
Juni L Yeung -- raising qin tuning and temperament in the circle, and basic underworkings in 'tempering' the octave whenever we tune in practice.
Q and A
Jo Bai (Germany) -- Why we learn the qin from songs instead of from tone scales first?
(Watch the final video of this discussion mainly from Juni and Bin)
