Guqin Intermediate
This Intermediate I class is for students who have completed the Beginner’s class. Students will learn to read more advanced tablatures (notation), correct hand postures, and more complex fingerings (separate, advance and return, back and return, lift up, knock, push out, etc.). Two or more intermediate-level pieces will be taught, including: “Lament of the Xiang River”, “Moon over Mount Guan”, and “Remembering Playing the Flute on the Phoenix Terrace”. In addition to fingering techniques, Guqin aesthetics and its cultural aspect will be presented. Students who have learned the Guqin before at other venues are welcome to join this class.
中级班：凡完成初级班的学生均可以上中级班。课程包括深入对减字谱的认识、继续学习左右手不同指法如分开、进复、退复、虚上、带起、罨、推出等、及学习“湘江怨”、“关山月”、“凤凰台上忆吹箫” 等两到三首中级曲目。也将较深入讲授古琴的历史、美学及其文化内涵。中级班也欢迎曾学过古琴的插班生。
Fees
10 Sessions (15 hours)
$630 member / $670 non-member
Non-Refundable Registration Fee: $30
* Instruments will be provided for in-class instruction.
* Maximum Number of Students: 6
Instructor
Mingmei Yip
Mingmei Yip, PhD in musicology from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) on a full scholarship from the French Government. A master performer on the Qin, she has given lectures and performances at venues such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, New York Philharmonic, Columbia University, Oxford University, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Beijing University, the University of Paris, Amsterdam University, Oberlin Conservatory, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the China Institute in New York. Mingmei has served as consultant for Beijing’s Chinese Qin Association 北京中国古琴会, director for Chinese Kun Opera and Guqin Research Association 中国古琴昆剧研究会理事, artistic consultant for New York Cultural Art Association, as well as on the academic board of the Chengdu International Qin Conference.
Also a writer, Mingmei has published fourteen books, with two on the qin. Her latest being her 7th novel The Witch’s Market (Kensington Books) which received a glowing review from the New York Times. She wrote columns for seven major newspapers and has appeared on over 50 TV and radio programs in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and the United States.
Mingmei is also accomplished as a painter and calligrapher. A one-person show of her paintings of Guan Yin (the Chinese Goddess of Compassion) and calligraphy was held at the New York Open Center Gallery in SoHo in 2002. Mingmei was lecturer and senior lecturer (associate professor) of music at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Baptist University respectively, and in 2005, an International Institute of Asian Studies fellow in Holland researching on the qin. She has taught qin playing and calligraphy at two major Hong Kong Universities.
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The Raven’s Night Cry (乌夜啼), a celebrated Guqin piece from Tang Dynasty (618 – 907) by Mingmei Yip