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How to enjoy music is a very old topic. For many years, there have been many monographs. However, some people still don't understand how to enjoy music. In fact, listening to music can also be said to be a very simple question, that is, as long as you like it. I often hear many people say, "Music is good, but I just can't understand it." But I often ask them: What exactly do you want to understand? Music, as long as you feel good. Why is it so utilitarian to understand? Actually, that's true. A famous music, as long as you feel good and can move you, you don't have to think about what story it is about. What form, tonality and theme is the next step. Actually, none of that is important yet. The most important thing is that you must first feel good and be moved by this music. Otherwise, no matter what famous music is, it's no use to you. As for those things, they are the next thing to know about music. If you can be moved by music, everything will be easy. Because when you are moved, you will have an impulsive idea, and you will think about why this music is so touching. What the hell is this about? In this way, you have a desire to learn more about music. It's impossible for you to understand everything from the beginning.

When music was first appreciated, its sound was so appealing that almost everyone who heard it was moved by it. The music at this time is very mysterious. It has great charm and fascination. Whether it is melody or lyrics, or even the harmony of accompaniment, it will be very exciting. We can see the difference between pop songs and romantic music from people who like different music types. It is very obvious that music is too attractive to the senses at this time, especially for those who have not really touched music or are less exposed to music. They will suddenly be attracted by its euphemistic melody or bright rhythm or sweet chord or even lingering lyrics. It is precisely because of this that many people often regard music as a kind of sustenance, as an ideal, as a gift, as an escape from reality, and even as their own fantasy world at this time. Because of this, some people often participate in the song-ordering programs of radio and television stations, and give a song they like as a gift to others. Because they feel that this music (song) makes them moved, as if it is an expression of their own state of mind. Of course, this is beyond reproach. What you give others is your own business. Everything is moving forward. People can't stay in an appreciation stage forever. One thing is clear among people who like pop songs, that is, there must be very few people over the age of 3. Why? As far as experience is concerned, those who "dream all their lives for love" and "always believe in love" are really a relatively empty thing. No one will live in such songs forever, and they can't stand it, nor can others.

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Music appreciation has a process from shallow to deep, that is, from perceptual (moved by music) to rational knowledge (exploring music knowledge) and back to perceptual knowledge (deeper appreciation). This is the only way to enjoy music. A person who studies musical instruments may not necessarily be a good music connoisseur, because he is concerned with skills. Expression and understanding are not the same thing. Music has its own language, just like every move and style in dance has its own expression meaning, so do chords, scores, speed and tonality in music. At the beginning, music can move you from the senses, make you excited and make you happy. This is an unconscious aesthetic activity. But if that's all, you still can't really listen to music.

Music has great appeal. This appeal is not only for young people who have just come into contact with music, but also for an old man who has experienced many hardships. It's just that different stages of listening to music bring different ideological contents. At the stage of perceptual knowledge, your understanding of music is still limited to sensory feelings. If you are not active in listening to music, then you may not be able to really understand the true meaning of music. For example, the famous song Blue Danube, in the perceptual stage, we will find it very beautiful. In fact, we are only attracted by the undulating melody, the waltz rhythm in triple time, the story reputation of this famous song and other factors. We don't know why the waltz form in triple time is so attractive; I don't know what kind of small waltzes this song consists of; We don't know the substantial difference between Strauss Waltz and other waltzes, but first we will be attracted and moved. If you are indifferent to a beautiful piece of music, that's the last thing you can do. When you appreciate music, you must be an active listener, never satisfied with simple sensory feelings and unconscious appreciation. Only in this way can you have a deep understanding of the other contents of this work, from the creative background to the music genre to the theme, ideological connotation and artistic attainments of the music form. In this way, you will have a deeper understanding of music than others. In the first stage of perceptual knowledge, we usually borrow some composers' descriptions of the titles of the tracks or those marked by later generations to deepen our understanding of music. For example <: < Dedicated to Alice > > This piano sketch made by Beethoven, combined with music and the association of title words, we can understand this warm and lively lyric sketch well; Another example is the Mexican composer rosas's < < Waltz riding the wind and waves > > From the title, we can appreciate the free and happy mood of splashing waves, seagulls flying and sailing in the waves described by music; Chrysler's violin music <: < China Flower Drum > > As soon as you listen to the title of the song, you will know that it is China's five tones that show a warm and cheerful emotional appeal. There are a lot of title music in the vast music river. As long as you are willing to walk into this music temple, you will find that this hall is full of the essence of human civilization, which is like a huge wealth that you can enjoy for a lifetime.

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In the initial stage, music appreciation mainly depends on the sense of sound. Beautiful melody, pleasant harmony, regular rhythm, ups and downs of loudness and so on. A kind of pleasure that people feel. A music lover, especially an audio lover, mostly feels that the first thing to pursue is sound effects. At first, using audio equipment to replay music was to listen to and compare audio equipment, and to teach many concepts about audio such as rhythm, timbre, dynamics and so on about different replay effects. As for what content, polyphony, fugue, counterpoint, what is Tarantella and what is sonata form, I don't know anything. In fact, it is not entirely unknown to some audio lovers, and many people do not know these musical concepts. It doesn't really matter. Music appreciation does not require everyone to be a musician. Everyone who listens to music will go through such a primary stage, whether he listens to pop songs or pop symphony music at first. Over the years, I have also seen a phenomenon that some young people, mainly middle school students, will soon be fascinated by rock music like Michael Jackson and become crazy followers if they are not influenced by music culture as children. Because they are immediately confused by the crazy rhythm and exciting sound, they don't understand and won't understand what the content is. Compared with those rational rock music lovers, they are only pediatrics. Sometimes some junk music programs are broadcast on TV stations. Although they are not many, they are disgusting, but these programs have a large group of followers. We can no longer say that the TV programs in socialist China are all healthy and progressive programs, and sometimes we will consider the ratings of sponsored advertisements. A passive person with no discriminating ability can easily regard dross as the essence.

when you appreciate music, you must be proactive. You should have your own experience, and this kind of music experience is very important, because the music appreciation guide is only to help you deepen this experience. You want to learn to appreciate music with only a pamphlet or a few superficial articles like this. That's a delusion. Because music guides can only tell you how to appreciate music, if you don't even have a little inner experience of music, it's no use reading those guides again. Because no book or article will teach you how to pour out passion or produce joy, sadness or sorrow in your heart. Because this is human nature, Enya's almost obscure music makes most people sound like the voice of heaven, but it doesn't matter if someone hears the dreaminess and silence. Your quality and experience drive you to do this. But if you are indifferent to what kind of music, that is the real sorrow.

Music is not a condiment. Although it can be used to adjust the atmosphere, it is by no means a condiment. But now many people regard music as a condiment, as if music is a high-grade and magical condiment. Shops open, guests feast, weddings and funerals ... Music is like pepper in a restaurant. When the magical sound of music rings, it can really change everything. It can make you solemn at once, make you extremely happy, and make you melancholy at once. The great appeal of music is very mysterious, but you should never use music as an ornament. Putting a popular song here and a saxophone there is like decorating your room with those cheap plastic ornaments.

In short, in the primary stage of music appreciation, that is, the perceptual stage, what you need is the inner experience of music charm. Whether it's a beautiful melody, charming timbre or lingering lyrics. In short, what is needed is that you can be moved by music. As long as you can be moved by music, everything will be easy.

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moved by music. When listening to music, the emotional experience and the desire to explore music will drive you into the second door of the music temple: the stage of rational understanding. If you don't go through this stage, you are still a passive music listener. Although you may choose music or listen to it at any time, you are still passive, because there is nothing except that you are moved by music. Whether it's beautiful, happy or sad, it's just a sense of hearing that causes your emotions to fluctuate. Of course, you can listen to music anytime and anywhere, even if you ride a bike to work or eat, but the music at this time only creates a barrier for you, and uses the melody rhythm in the music to isolate the noise of the city from the entanglements of the world. As we mentioned earlier, music is not a condiment. Although music is very magical, it is by no means a condiment. Music needs to be listened to. If you really want to use it for other purposes, such as setting off the atmosphere, adjusting the mood, or even appetizing it, then it is not music. Because no one will listen carefully to the sound replayed in the restaurant, and no one will be excited by the music in a terminal. Music is music only when you listen to it carefully. Because if an organ can arouse your inner experience, it must have some connotation, and this connotation is the music content itself.

Entering the stage of rational understanding of music appreciation shows the development process of our music appreciation from passive to active. In the second gate of this temple, we will know Bach and Mozart, and experience Beethoven and Rachmaninov. In a word, all the famous musicians in the whole history of human civilization will pass by us one by one and let us know. We will also know the elements of music composition: melody, rhythm, timbre and harmony; Know what baroque music is and who is the music representative in the later period of romanticism; How is sonata different from sonata form? A person who has just come into contact with music should be said to have a superficial understanding of music. If you don't fully understand music, you can't appreciate it better. For example, if you don't know what timbre is, you can't understand music at all. Because timbre is like the gorgeous color in painting, it determines the rich musical meaning. Another example is the touching theme in Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's sixth Symphony Pathetique, whose appeal really makes people want to cry. Mr. Yang Mingwang has a wonderful description of this theme: "This sleepy mind, with indelible wounds, finally plunged into the embrace of eternal death in the upsurge of grief and despair that cannot be comforted." If you don't know about music, can you understand the profound meaning of this theme?

At this stage of rational understanding, not everyone has the opportunity or conditions to study music theory and music history seriously and systematically. But we can still get knowledge about music through other books. It is one of the best ways to compare and listen to books like Appreciation of Famous Songs. Music analysis, musical form structure, theme hints, etc. are essential for listeners. In this way, you will know the structural difference between concerto and symphony; You will know the difference between variations and Rondo; Even you may start to be fascinated by Mahler or Brahms; You may like Pavarotti's high and exciting voice and Armstrong's hoarse voice at the same time. Wait, it's all based on your understanding of music. At this time, you also began to change: your speech, your opinions, your experience and self-cultivation, and so on. "Sesame blossoms", the huge treasure of music has opened the door to you.

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All music has its own connotation, and your understanding of music is the process of understanding these musical connotations. Although everyone can't stay at one stage in isolation to simply explore music knowledge and ignore the connotation of music. With the help of some auxiliary tools such as music appreciation and analysis of famous songs, it is necessary to listen to a musical work carefully. At this stage, we must first understand the history of music and know the different manifestations of music in different periods; You should also understand the basic contents of composers, such as the different styles and ideas of Beethoven and Wagner in music creation; In addition, you need to know some basic knowledge of music, such as form. In fact, musical form is the form of music. The most important thing to understand in the form is the sonata form. Generally speaking, among the forms of classical music, sonata form is the most. Sonata form basically represents the basic form of most music, which is mostly used in symphonies, concertos, chamber music and so on. Sonata forms have one movement and three or four movements. Of course, the form is not just sonata form, there are many forms. For example, variations are carried out with one theme: A-A1-A2-A3-... AZ. For the understanding of variations, you can listen to Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Variations on Rococo Theme, and one theme changes into seven variations; Another example is Rondo, whose basic meaning is that a theme is repeated many times: A-B-A-C-D-A ... etc., where A stands for the theme and B.C.D etc. stands for the change, and after each change, it returns to the theme. The understanding of this form can be heard in Mozart's Piano Rondo in A Minor.

Music appreciation should also understand the theme. The theme in music is very important. In a piece of music, a listener must firmly remember the theme image of music in this piece of music, and its changes, contrast and development constitute all the connotations of music. So we must learn to remember the theme when listening to music. In Berlioz's symphonie fantastique, the theme music image of the weak and sensitive young artist runs from the first movement to the fifth music.