Since I’ve been taking the course Dance 10, I watch Prof.Tsou and TA Mr. Schonfeld carefully when they are teaching. I noticed that their mind is always focused on what they are doing. They seem to forget the real world, only staying in their art world, which is similar to that I seem to forget the real world, only staying in my Guqin world nothing else when I play my Guqin. Prof. Tsou and TA Schonfeld pointed out in their book, “The training of the mind involves both awareness and imagination. Awareness sharpens the five senses. It involves sensing oneself in one’s environment. It includes being aware of one’s body parts, of the ground beneath, of the air being breathed, of a tree in the distance.” They’ve created a harmonious beauty of nature
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The postures of Qin player should be dignified, natural and serene capacity. The body postures should avoid rocking too much since playing position of self-adjustment loosens up, will play a crucial role for Guqin music. The player’s breath and mind can be presented out looking through the player’s whole body postures. It said in our text book, “The importance of developing habits is that movements which were once artificial become natural…Habits are important because the body is then freed from the confines of awareness and is better able to move into the imagination level. The development of sixth sense that activates movement within the physical body becomes a greater possibility.” The importance of posture is the part of the application of Qigong on …show more content…
The interval between the first string and the sixth string is one octave. The interval between the second string and the seventh string is one octave also. Basically, the lower tune string is Yin, and the higher tune string is Yang. However, the Guqin player may play a higher tune on the lower tune string, thus the lower tune string becomes Yang. The player also may play the lower tune on the higher tune string, thus the higher tune string becomes Yin. The rest of Guqin music is may consider as Yin. The sound appears after the rest ends which may consider as Yang. Thus, Qigong and Guqin playing status have a lot common
The postures of Qin player should be dignified, natural and serene capacity. The body postures should avoid rocking too much since playing position of self-adjustment loosens up, will play a crucial role for Guqin music. The player’s breath and mind can be presented out looking through the player’s whole body postures. It said in our text book, “The importance of developing habits is that movements which were once artificial become natural…Habits are important because the body is then freed from the confines of awareness and is better able to move into the imagination level. The development of sixth sense that activates movement within the physical body becomes a greater possibility.” The importance of posture is the part of the application of Qigong on …show more content…
The interval between the first string and the sixth string is one octave. The interval between the second string and the seventh string is one octave also. Basically, the lower tune string is Yin, and the higher tune string is Yang. However, the Guqin player may play a higher tune on the lower tune string, thus the lower tune string becomes Yang. The player also may play the lower tune on the higher tune string, thus the higher tune string becomes Yin. The rest of Guqin music is may consider as Yin. The sound appears after the rest ends which may consider as Yang. Thus, Qigong and Guqin playing status have a lot common