Music is an art form that uses auditory images composed of organized sounds to express people's thoughts, feelings and social reality. It is also one of the most instantly moving art forms. When the melody sounds, people are often unable to resist and immediately fall into the atmosphere of the music. Any art form has its own expressions to express ideas and shape artistic images. For example, dance embodies artistic images through body movements and facial expressions, painting embodies lines, colors, and compositions, and literature embodies artistic images through words, words, sentences, and articles. Usually, people distinguish different types of art based on different means of expression, such as different musical instruments. Music can also show the intentions of the musicians and music creators.
According to the "Yue Ji" in "Book of Rites", it is recorded in detail that "all the sounds are generated by the human heart. The movement of the human heart is caused by things. It is moved by the things, so it takes the form of music." "Sounds and sounds correspond to each other, so they change." This introduction simply and clearly covers the connection between the sound changes of music and people's emotions. If we further check the ancient books and further study, we can understand the meaning of the music vocabulary we usually hear. A deeper understanding.
Sound: Energy fluctuations in nature that are easily captured by the human ear.
Sound: A continuous sound wave that has stable changing rules and is controllable.
Le: pleasant sound waves selected by the organization.
Tone: A collection of selected sounds based on a certain rule.
Law: Arrange the collection of sounds in a more regular order.
Section: Complete a certain piece within a certain period of time
Music: Organize all the above-mentioned vocal music tuning sections as a whole.
These words are combined with each other to form words such as sound, music, tone, tone, and melody. (Vocal music is the abbreviation of human voice as a musical instrument.) Music is an art form that uses sound as a means of expression, and the shaping of images is completed using organized sounds as materials. Therefore, just as literature is the art of language, music is the art of sound. This is one of the basic characteristics of musical art. Sound, as a means of expression of musical art, has some characteristics that are different from other sounds in nature.
The sounds produced in any musical work are carefully thought out and created by the composer. These sounds can be found in nature, but they cannot become music without the ingenious creation and combination of artists. Musical. Therefore, whether it is a simple song or a large-scale symphony, it is permeated with the author's creative thinking and inspiration. Randomly painted lines and colors are not paintings, arbitrarily piled up language and words are not literature, and similarly, messy sounds are not music. The sounds that constitute musical images are organized, regular and harmonious music, including melody, rhythm, mode, harmony, polyphony, musical form and other elements, collectively referred to as musical language. Without a creative element, no sound can become music.
Language has a conventional semantics, and every sentence or even every word has a specific meaning. This meaning is recognized within the social scope in which the language is used and is a convention; the sound of music is completely different. It is only limited to the scope of art and exists only as an artistic exchange; the sound of music in any music is completely different. Sounds themselves never have a very definite meaning like language, they are non-semantic. Since music is the art of sound, it can only appeal to people's hearing. Therefore, music is also an auditory art. The principles of directional reflex and exploratory reflex in psychology tell us that among various external stimuli within a certain distance, sound can attract people's attention the most. It can force people's auditory organs to accept the sound, which determines the comparison of auditory art with visual art. Art can more directly affect people's emotions and shock people's hearts.
Music can only be expressed by sound and felt by hearing, but this does not mean that when people create and appreciate music, only the parts of the cerebral cortex corresponding to hearing are excited, while other parts of the cerebral cortex are excited. All parts are in a suppressed state. In fact, musicians not only feel and experience, understand and express life through the channel of hearing, but also use their whole body and mind to feel and experience, which is no different from other types of artists.
Without musical performance, a musical work can only exist in the form of a score and never become real music.
No matter which composer writes the score, there is a certain gap between the music score and their musical ideas. To make up for this gap, to discover the musical ideas hidden in the score, and to enrich and supplement things that cannot be recorded in the score, all this depends on the re-creation of music performers. Therefore, music is also a performing art, and musical works can only be accepted by the audience through performance.