The development and popularization of classical music is a symbol of the degree of civilization of a nation and a city.
Goethe said: If you don’t love music, you are not worthy of being a human being. Nietzsche was a madman of philosophy, literature, and music. He actually went to see the opera "Carmen" 37 times, and he had a profound understanding of music. He said: Without music, life is a mistake. The German philosopher Schopenhauer also said: With music, people no longer have desires, and this art has been completely satisfied. Music is the first of all arts, an imperial art.
Some time ago, the newspaper reported on a symposium held by several experts, which discussed Austrian Mahler's symphony performed in Shanghai. Mahler is new in China, and the experts finally said with great encouragement: Now is the time to move towards Mahler. This means that China will enter the world of masters like Mahler. Mahler's music became very popular in the West after World War II. This reflected the painful hearts of people after the war. People longed for relief in Mahler's deep music, which Beethoven or Tchaikovsky could not provide. . During World War II, Tchaikovsky was once popular in the United States. However, the far more profound connotation of Mahler's music cannot be compared to Tchaikovsky's symphony.
What we lack is a tradition. Compared with the West, our gap is twofold. The so-called classical music originally originated in Europe. China and Japan are Eastern countries. We have our own national music, which has a long and splendid history. So when we accept Western classical music, we obviously cannot have their kind of cultural tradition. Western religions and churches are all related to music. Not all Western young people sitting in the symphony hall understand music, but at least they are not unfamiliar with it. This is the power of tradition. In the West there is no break in tradition, although musical trends themselves are constantly renewed. This is not the case in China. What we lack is this tradition, so we have more work to do in popularizing classical music. Goethe said: The highest state that human beings can achieve is surprise. It is this sense of wonder that the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Mahler gives.
In 1997, Vice Premier Li Lanqing issued an instruction to popularize classical music among the 5 million college students. Scholars can do anything, but they must not be vulgar (vulgar, vulgar, vulgar), vulgarity cannot be cured. The most important thing in four years of college is to acquire a temperament, and classical music seems to be more likely to change a person's temperament. With temperament, abilities follow, and knowledge is absorbed; with temperament, although not everyone has the ambition of a swan, they will not only have the heart of a sparrow.
Classical Music and Moral Education
Darwin: The success of a scientist depends on a rich mental state and a beautiful emotional world, not just a kind of rational thinking. Beethoven: Music should spark the human spirit. Music is a higher revelation than all philosophy and all wisdom. Music can make people's soul and spiritual realm noble and pure, and it is a kind of spiritual baptism. Philharmonic brings about profound changes in people. People become very heavy, but not gloomy, but brighter than those who are not heavy. He looks at the real world and imagines a beautiful transcendence. He lives his daily life while moving in another ideal space. Quite a few people who love music are perfectionists and idealists.
Pleasure makes people lonely. It is not about being lonely by others, but about being lonely by yourself. In loneliness, you develop dignity, self-respect and respect for others. The music will be self-absorbed, while the non-pop songs will be star-chasing. Loneliness is the wet nurse of all great thinkers, the mother of heroes, the companion of poets, and the girlfriend of art. Bacon: Character is perfected in solitude, and talent is perfected in society. Schumann: Loneliness is a kind of vitality, thinking, and creative tranquility. The more material life is, the more pitiful and sad it is; the less material life is, the more important and noble it is, the more lonely and tragic it is. Music won't make you rich, but it will make you happy; it won't save your soul, but it will make your soul worth saving.
Classical Music and Intellectual Education
Einstein had an unforgettable love and passion for classical music. He could play the piano and the violin very well. Once, after giving a special lecture on physics, in order to thank the thunderous applause, he played a Mozart sonata on the violin and said that it would be more pleasant and easier to understand if I played the violin instead of speaking. He said: If I had not received music education in my early years, I would have accomplished nothing in any career. The feeling of music brought me new discoveries. It can be said that his theory of relativity was played on the piano: On one memorable morning, Ai went downstairs for breakfast in his pajamas, but he hardly touched the food on the plate. He answered his concerned wife: Dear, I had a brilliant idea, and then I turned to the piano and started playing. While playing, he stopped to write down the sparks that just flashed in his mind, and shouted again: "Brilliant, brilliant idea!" He muttered for another half hour, then went upstairs to his room and asked not to be disturbed again. He almost kept himself there. When he came out two weeks later, his face turned pale. He put two stacks of papers full of writing on the table and said happily: Look, the theory of relativity!
According to research, children listening to Mozart’s music can improve their mathematical abilities.
Classical Music and Sports
Music plays a very good role in regulating people’s harmonious life and improving physical health. American scientists conducted comparative tests: more than 93% of rock and jazz performers suffered from irregular heartbeats and neurological abnormalities, while less than 5% of classical music symphony players suffered from similar diseases, and they were healthier than the average person. The psychological effect of music on people is mainly reflected in its influence on emotions, emotions and behavior. Its physical effect can calm, analgesia and reduce blood pressure, and regulate the physiological functions of various human systems. Japanese test: Mothers who listen to classical music have an increase in milk volume of 20% compared to usual. If they listen to it with headphones, the increase is as much as double; if they listen to jazz music, milk volume decreases by 20-50% than usual. According to reports, some dairy farms play classical music to their cows to increase milk production.
Classical Music and Aesthetic Education
The pastor adopted a blind girl. He took her to a nearby forest resort, where Beethoven's symphony concert series was being held. They listened to the sixth In the symphony pastoral, on the silent way home, the blind girl suddenly asked, Pastor, please tell me, is the world really so beautiful?
The beauty of music is closer to the emotion itself than the beauty of other arts. It comes from emotion, expresses emotion, arouses emotion, and is the so-called language of passion. Sound, the material of music, sometimes does not require special content factors but can arouse people's social emotions and emotional reactions: timbre can evoke emotional associations of lightness, flying, and happiness, and can also create the impression of slowness, heaviness, and terror; Certain chords seem to have tonal significance; certain rhythms can create turbulent or quiet effects. Generally speaking, the sublime beauty of music must have at least the following elements: seriousness of the subject matter, richness of connotation, intensity of emotion, and rational structure. Tragedy is also an important category of musical beauty. Although it cannot tell us why we are sad or who is sad, music is the art that is best at tragedy. When we say that a work is beautiful, we are not only saying that I can understand it, but also saying that I agree with the connotation of the work, that is, it resonates emotionally. It can be seen that the beauty of music has more emotional characteristics than other artistic beauty, and even this kind of beauty is the emotion itself.
Classical Music and Labor
Among various arts, only music can be carried out simultaneously with labor and play a promoting role. American experiment: Appropriate use of background music can improve work efficiency by more than 30%, while other methods can only increase 5-10%.