The so-called title music is simply music with text as the title.

1. Title music is another comprehensive music form produced by romantic composers who combined music with literature, drama, painting and other sister arts. This is a way to use words to describe the composer. Instrumental music with creative intention and ideological content of the work.

2. This kind of text that explains the theme idea is the title. In instrumental music, "title music" often corresponds to "pure music" (non-title music), which means instrumental music without a title.

1. Origin

1. The origin of title music can be traced back to the 16th and 17th centuries. ", the descriptive and symbolic elements of the title music appear in instrumental works such as Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons".

2. Title music was further developed during the classical period. Romanticism emerged in the 19th century, and the pursuit of freedom and advocating individualism became the spirit of the times during this period.

3. Romanticism is reflected in music by emphasizing the expressive meaning of music and bringing lyrical and emotional factors to an important position. Romantic music pursues more freedom, movement, strong passion, more changes, sharp contrasts, dramatic conflicts and the extremes of various emotions.

4. In order to better express emotions, music has opened its own door and is closely connected with literature, drama, fine arts and other arts.

2. Creation method

1. Conceive according to the title when creating, and ask the audience to listen to the instrumental music according to the prompts of the title. "Program" means "outline", not the title.

2. F. Liszt’s definition of the title is: “A piece of easy-to-understand words written by the composer before a purely instrumental piece of music. The composer does this to prevent people listening to the music from interpreting it arbitrarily. For your own music, you should point out the poetry of the whole song in advance and point out the most important things."

3. In China

1. Title music does not rely on words to explain the specific content. Pure music (also known as "absolute music") is relatively symmetrical. The author of the title music conceived the idea with the title as the latitude and longitude, so the image expressed by the music is more specific, and sometimes there is a certain plot.

2. But pure music is also the product of a certain social life reflected in the mind of the composer; the depth and breadth of expressing image, artistic conception, thoughts and feelings are not dependent on whether there is a title or not.

3. Historically, title music originally developed from pure music; conversely, some expression techniques of title music can also be applied to pure music. So there is no unbridgeable gap between title music and pure music.