Post by SCWGuqin on Apr 12, 2006 0:04:35 GMT
I'm sure we all like many different qin pieces, and for different reasons. What are some people's favorites, and why?
I generally like pieces with a philosophical theme, preferably long and fairly complex. Yu Ge has always been at or near the top of my list--I feel it exemplifies how a qin piece can develop a number of melodic ideas in very complex ways over many minutes. I like the idea of announcing an idea and then varying and returning to it, sometimes in unpredictable ways.
I love XXSY because of its huge emotional range; in general, I love the ambiguity of withdrawal from society across Chinese arts: it can be freeing, but it can also entail frustration and the denial of real obligation. I think the 'two sides' of XXSY--the falling into the numinous natural landscape and the anger and 'patriotism' are parts of a single picture. Sometimes I say it's my favorite because it "combines" Confucian and Daoist themes.
I like PSLY because it is fundamentally a stark, desolate piece, punctuated (especially in the Guangling version) with hope and other surprises.
I could go on, but let's hear from each other first.
I generally like pieces with a philosophical theme, preferably long and fairly complex. Yu Ge has always been at or near the top of my list--I feel it exemplifies how a qin piece can develop a number of melodic ideas in very complex ways over many minutes. I like the idea of announcing an idea and then varying and returning to it, sometimes in unpredictable ways.
I love XXSY because of its huge emotional range; in general, I love the ambiguity of withdrawal from society across Chinese arts: it can be freeing, but it can also entail frustration and the denial of real obligation. I think the 'two sides' of XXSY--the falling into the numinous natural landscape and the anger and 'patriotism' are parts of a single picture. Sometimes I say it's my favorite because it "combines" Confucian and Daoist themes.
I like PSLY because it is fundamentally a stark, desolate piece, punctuated (especially in the Guangling version) with hope and other surprises.
I could go on, but let's hear from each other first.