Guqin means “ancient stringed instrument,” and it is ancient as its name implies.  Confucius himself is belived to have played the guqin and written pieces for it.  In addition to people writing pieces for the guqin, some guqin pieces originated from poems.  Ancient poems were often sung rather than recited.  Hence melodies have come to associated with the poems that they have traditionally been used to sing such that these melodies when adapted as instrumental pieces, are still name for the original poems (the lyrics of the original song, so to speak) and remind the listeners of the original meanings of the poems.  Many guqin pieces came about in this way.  Shang Ye is a Han dynasty poem praying for eternal love.  


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Zeng Xiaogang kommer från Kina och spelar det klassiska kinesiska instrumentet qin. Qin representerar en säregen österländsk musikestetik som skiljer sig markant från den västerländska och i stor utsträckning också från den övriga världens musiktraditioner i sin form, fri rytmik och berättande karaktär. Qinspelaren beskrivs kunna måla med toner. Xiaogang har under många år också utforskat instrumentets möjligheter utanför traditionen i nyskapande sammanhang som solist, improvisatör och i möten med andra musiker och ensembler. 


琴聲雖可狀，琴意誰可聽。

Although the tones of the qin may be features, when listening to them who shall be able to fathom their significance.


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