The scholar-administrators whose emblem . . . the qin was are ...

[gbarreiro]

The scholar-administrators whose emblem . . . the qin was are long gone . . . What is the place of this softly played solo music in todays fast-paced, energetic China? .
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is the origin of qin music? What system of written notation is used for the qin? What about this notational system encouraged individual interpretation.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[komodo7]

Answer to Question 1

 Today quite a few people play the qin. . . This restrained, sensitive and flexible music . . . requires listening with increased concentration and cultivating the way of the qin', that is listening with the ear, the heart and the mind and this has as much relevance as it did two thousand years ago.
Chinese Music for the Piano
CD 2:16 Liao Shengjing's The Joyous Festival of Lunar New Year's Day (Piano Solo)
Read the discussion of this music in WOM. Follow the Close Listening guide as you listen to the example.

Answer to Question 2

 For much of its extensive history the instrument was associated with the elite scholar-officials who governed the Chinese empire. The qin was played by many highly cultivated amateur musicians either alone for self-cultivation or among a small group of like-minded friends (literati). Poetry and Chinese calligraphy were combined into qin songs. Many qin pieces, like paintings, treated historical or programmatic scenes.

[gbarreiro]

Thank you!

[komodo7]

Always glad to help...