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The original text of Shanghai Chen Gang's literary work "Music is in My Heart"

First of all, LZ got the question wrong. The article is "Music is in your heart".

Music is in your heart Chen Gang

What is music? Do you understand? Of course, there is no musician who does not understand the principles of music! But I am often confused by this problem. It seems that the longer we travel on the journey of music, the more hazy and confusing our definition of "music" becomes. Especially when some theorists "analyze" music with a cold scalpel (such as what is a "sonata", what is a "variation", what is the presentation, development, recapitulation...), I feel that music is even more important. Suddenly it became stiff, dry and unapproachable. In fact, music is here, in your heart! Music is the voice of the heart. This is the most magical charm of music. Music, like thunder and lightning, can split your heart open in a flash, make your heart tremble, make your heart churn, and make your heart bud bloom with flowers. Music, it can "capture some shadows of happiness and traces of sadness; hear the heavy knocking on the door of harsh destiny; smell the fragrance wafting from the green fields..." (Zhu Jun: "Looking Up to Music") When I went to the United States to visit the violin master Stern in 1981, I specially gave him a banner excerpted from "Music Notes": "Emotions are moved in the medium and shaped in the sound." This ancient Chinese saying gave us a way to unlock the meaning of music. The key to the mystery - that is love. Only with true love can there be beauty. Music is a colorful kaleidoscope of sound. It is a tolerant art, an art that is particularly inclusive. Especially as a modern person in the twentieth century, we cannot only listen to one kind of Jin music with one ear, but should prick up three ears to listen to three different kinds of music - classical music, pop music and modern music. New York is such a musical paradise. While the well-dressed and upright audience were enjoying Puccini's operas in the splendid Metropolitan Opera House, excited crowds were also pouring into the theater in Menlaohui to cheer for the newly performed operettas - with Mrs. Peron as the The musical "Evita" with the same theme has continued to perform for several years; while millions of viewers are fascinated by Jackson's singing, the symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven are like air and water. , gently seeping into shops, offices and people's hearts, showing their infinite vitality! Although the attendance rate of modern music is not that high, it has a group of loyal friends. Once, I attended a modern concert. There were only thirty or forty people in the audience, but they listened to each new piece so attentively and enthusiastically. Whenever a piece is performed, the composer takes the stage to take a final call amid the cheers of the audience and the spotlight. In such a warm atmosphere, modern composers will not feel alone or lonely at all. Since people have a "combination of personalities" in their hearts, they will have a "stereo, multi-track" auditory network. People of different levels and tastes will have different listening choices. We can not only approach the sublime, "throw away all troubled thoughts, and gain detachment and harmony from the depths of our hearts" ("Looking Up to the Music"); we can also follow the sound of Clayderman's performance of "Gone with the Wind", "Floating to Scarlett Hao's side" (Hu Xinhua: "Wonderful Enjoyment"), I got a wonderful enjoyment, which is called "hundred customers in the department store". But as modern people with polyhedrons, they should be interested in all kinds of music at the same time. This is also called "listening to music with three ears." I once used this as the title of an essay and the title of this book, and the comic master Ding Cong even specially painted it for me. Joy is silent. The "silent" thing is the wordless voice! It creates something out of nothing, giving birth to an ever-changing world and a series of endless fantastic thoughts. -When listening to music, you can feel its "infinite beauty" and "infinite charm", giving people "infinite reverie" (Sun Wei: "The Charm of Music"). Infinity is another magical charm of music. The Italian modern poet Ongaretti has a famous short poem: "I use infinity / to illuminate me."

Boundlessness is infinity, infinity is the highest realm of art, and this realm can only be found in your heart - therefore, music is in your heart!

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