The Existence-modes Of Musical Meaning And A Metaphysical Study On The Setting-into-work Of Truth

This dissertation is a study aiming the following questions:Does music have any meaning? How does the meaning of music exist? Is there any original existence of musical meaning? The purpose of this article is to give some appropriate theoretic positions to the musical perceptual intuitive experience and to the transcendental aesthetic appearance of man. On the premise of this, the article confirms:what's the way man should take while directly facing the original existence of musical meaning?Based on theoretical questions such as the perceptual experience and rational knowledge of music, experiential sound and transcendental sound, intentional being and metaphysical manifestation of meaning, original meaning and truth of being, the article discusses the actual existence and the historic existence of musical meaning in the category of experience, and discusses the intentional being and the original being of musical meaning in the category of transcendence. Finally, the empirical existence and the transcendental existence of musical meaning are integrated into transcendent existence of truth as a holistic event for a variety of meanings.Correspondingly, on the premise of emphasizing the relation between meaning and truth, the article defined items and theories related with musical meaning and constructed a reasonable theoretical system by absorbing and drawing existing theoretical sources. For this purpose, the article starts with the aesthetic theories of music related to questions of musical meaning and bases on Martin Heidegger's philosophical resource of "the Setting-into-work of truth". Cohering Heidegger's inquiry for the origin of art validly with the question of musical meaning, the article expands its research fields to some revealed theories in theology in order to integrate truth of artistic experience with truth of transcendent domain. Moreover, in such a composite research, the author tried her best to indicate the basic methods of transformation between empirical existence and transcendental existence, and all in all, to manifest the identity of experiential practice, transcendental inquiry and transcendent revelation in musical meaning.Main terms and concepts are adopted in this article as below:Transcendental sound (or Sound a priori):a sound existing transcendentally that indicates an original being of musical meaning. It's a fore-form of sound.Immanent listening:a way of intention while directly facing transcendental sound that indicates a mode of listening to the structure of musical meaning.Truth of sensibility:something true that appears by means of perceptual intuition.Truth of rationality:something actual that can be recognized by means of rational apperception.Truth of revelation:a meaning of original being that can reveal itself in the transcendental existence.By all the above issues, the article gives its answers:Music does have meanings. There are musical meanings not only given by humans but also originally existing in advance. The musical meaning originally existing reveals and manifests itself by the truth of being. The original existence of musical meaning is the Setting-into-work of Truth.After demonstrating the truth setting itself into musical work, comes the conclusion of this article:the musical meaning is the truth that sets itself into a work of music.