1. Direct perceptual experience

The experience of the emotional connotation of musical works is first expressed as direct perceptual experience. When we hear a piece of music, the emotion it expresses naturally creates an experience based on the perceptual thinking of the listener. A sudden and extremely powerful sound will surprise people; a weak, slow, and low-pitched sound will make people feel emotionally relaxed, calm, disappointed, and sighing; a series of rapid, high-spirited, and gradually higher sounds will make people feel emotionally relaxed, calm, disappointed, and sighing. , and it will make people emotionally tense, enthusiastic, excited, high-spirited, happy, hopeful, etc.; one or two very long weak long tones will make people feel emotionally stable and relaxed; on the contrary, , if this long sound gradually becomes very strong, it will make people feel yearning, yearning, etc. When we hear a fast and lively piece of music, we will get an emotional experience of joy and joy from the musical theme played by the instrument. And when we hear a slow, tearful music theme, a sad and desolate feeling will involuntarily well up in our hearts. Extensive music makes people feel comfortable; unrestrained rhythms make people open-minded; delicate lyrics make people meditate; melancholy tunes make people look back on the past... These kinds of emotional experiences that naturally arise with the perception of music are what we Talking about direct perceptual experience.

"Emotion is the process and destination of aesthetic education." Music without emotion is just a bunch of messy sounds, and performers and appreciators without emotion are like a soulless body. During the appreciation process, if the appreciator only has direct emotional experience of the music work, although it is possible to experience the basic emotions of the music, it will often be limited to the emotional type of experience of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, and will not be able to experience the emotions of the music more deeply. the inner meaning. It also fails to achieve the purpose of experiencing the appreciation process and improving the appreciation level, ability, and aesthetic level. Therefore, the further requirement for emotional experience in music appreciation is the participation of understanding and knowledge. On the basis of emotional experience, we must study and understand the inner meaning of music emotions from all aspects, which is to appreciate music beyond sensibility.

2. The experience of appreciating music rationally

First, understand the creative background of the work, the composer’s life, history and other related content.

Understanding the author and the background of the work is of great benefit to enjoying the concert. For example, when appreciating the third movement of the "Long March Symphony", the audience is asked to review the historical fragments of the Red Army's Long March and capture the Luding Bridge, and understand how the Red Army captured the Luding Bridge? (Flying to capture the Luding Bridge) What is the background?) The key to whether the Red Army can successfully cross the Dadu River is to seize control of the Luding Bridge. The key role of Luding Bridge is that it is the only bridge across the naturally dangerous Dadu River. In history, Shi Dakai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was finally wiped out by Qing troops at Anshun Field near Luding Bridge. Chiang Kai-shek also dreamed of turning the Red Army into the second Shi Dakai. In order to quickly cross the Dadu River and defeat the enemy's plot to attack from both sides, the Red Army must seize the Luding Bridge quickly. It was under this emergency situation that the Fourth Red Guard Regiment of the Left Route Army quickly accepted the glorious and arduous task of capturing Luding Bridge. With this background understanding, when listening to music, you can better imagine the plot and musical images shown in the work, so as to understand the work. Another example is when appreciating "Andante Cantabile", this work has almost become synonymous with Tchaikovsky, and sometimes people simply forget that the author has written other works. "Andante Cantabile" adopts the form of a complex trilogy. In the summer of 1869, Tchaikovsky was on vacation at his sister's estate in Ukraine. One day, he heard the masons outside the window singing an ancient folk song. He was deeply moved by the song and recorded it. This folk song is "Vanya Sitting on the Sofa." Judging from the lyrics, it is obviously a boring and leisurely ditty, but with his keen artistic insight, Tchaikovsky felt the deep and rich connotation of the melody of the song, so he used it as a In "Andante Cantabile", it is the main theme of this movement. When playing this piece, mutes are added to the string instruments. The tone is dark and the mood is restrained. It is an expression of spiritual pain. When the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy listened to this piece of music in 1876, he couldn't help but shed tears and exclaimed: "I have come into contact with the depths of the souls of the disaster-stricken people." Through this introduction, the audience was moved In the process of appreciating the works, you can better grasp the emotions of the works.