| Music is an emotional, audio and time art. The sound is its carrier, which has the characteristics of instantaneousness and indirectness, so music has been regarded as a sensational discipline for a long time, and the feeling of happiness brought by music is excluded from rationality, just a pure sense. Are there existing rational activities in musical practices other than musical image and emotional experience? How do perception and sense are integrated with each other?The concept of imagery is put forward by traditional Chinese music theory and art theory. And they regards that it can not have a fairly musical expression ability and processing level without the representation of music imagery. From the processing level of cognitive psychology, music imagery is of great importance that integrating sensebility and ration in the process of music activity. Music imagery is an indispensable media factor existing in music performance, music inventing activities even in music appreciation, which is an organic combination of music image, music meaning including music thought, values, and outlook of ideals, music emotion. A famouse aesthetic researcher Mr. Ye Lang has pointed out that imagery is the origin of art. No matter the aim of art invention, object of art appreciation, or the identity of artwork, they will be all concluded to imagery. To art, imagery captains all, the motivation of emotion, the media carrier, the artist and audience. Therefore, the aesthetic problem in art is always the problem of creating imagery. Music imagery is the bridge between abstract thoughts and visual thoughts, and it can happily and effectively aid music creators, music performers and music audience enjoy music.This research mainly discusses whether there are different music imagery processing level in music practices? Whether will it prominently influnce music practices? These will prove the role of music imagery in cognition, expand cognitive processing theory and it has an very important theoritical value to put it into music practices, music educational instruction.The whole dissertation has two chapters.The Chapter One, including Section One and Section Three, is theoretical study. Firstly, it reviews the literatures on concepts, roles, neuro mechanism, and psychological processing mechanism of music imagery, and find out that many researches mixed music imagery and music image, and did not give an exact concept to music imagery, this is a vital factor that leads to the biased understanding of music perception and music sense cognition. This study is based on the above researches, and put forward that music imagery is a creative image which is the combination of music image that includes audio image, visual image, music sense that contains music original knowledge, music background knowledge, music emotion. And then, it explains the value and structure of this study.Chapter Two, including Section four to Section Eleven, is positive study. In this chapter, three hypothesises are suggested, which are whether the audio image and visual image exist in music imagery? Whether there are different processing levels in music imagery? Whether there are positive relationship between music imagery processing level and music practical activities, setting the music appreciation as the example. And two main experiment are layed out, experiment one is the making of audio image and visual image in music imagery; and experiment two is the processing level of music imagery. Surrounding by the main experiment, seven sub-researches are formed:Research I : Words analysis on music aesthetic appreciation and music imagery aesthetic, including the following two sub research: (1) literature review on aesthetic judgement words of music imagery; (2) Words analysis and dimensions on audio image and visual image in music imagery forming level.Research II: the forming level of audio and visual image in music imagery;Research III: vertification factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis of music imagery;Research IV: Experiment of music imagery precessing level;Research V: vertification factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis of music appreciation;Research VI: the test on music appreciation level;Research VII: the relative study between music imagery processing level and music appreciation. Conclusions to diverse researches are as follows:To all music materials , even the single and quiescent one, no matter participants are professional or amateur, they all have audio image or visual image, or have both; Different musical materials have some effect on the numbers of audio and visual image and aesthetic judgement. With the profoundness of music materials and increasing of musical factors, rhythm and melody materials have significantly difference on audio and visual image numbers and aesthetic judgement with single and quiescent ones. Participants existing audio and visual image altogether precede those with only one kind of image; The audio and visual image have significant difference in music imagery to participants on different disciplines; The time on choosing audio and visual numbers and aesthetic judgement have significant difference in participants of different disciplines. Participants of professional music are longer than participants of liberal arts, and those of liberal arts are longer than participant of science; To single and quiescent musical materials, participants with audio and visual image altogether do not have significant difference with participants only have one kind of image in aesthetic judgement; While audio and visual image and aesthetic judgment have significant difference in rhythm and melody materials.The general conclusions to this research are as follows:(1) Music imagery are composed by five sectors that are musical theory knowledge, musical background knowledge, audio image, visual image, and music emotion. The self-made music imagery questionary has fairly validity and reliability, and can be used as the ivestigational tool to music imagery.(2) There are seven processing levels in music imagery.(please see graph 1-1).(3) There is significantly positive relation between the music imagery processing level and music practical activities, setting the music appreciation as an example, that is having active roles to music practical activities(music appreciation).(4) The audio image, music emotion, musical theoy knowledge have much predictable roles to music practical activities(music appreciation).(5) Music appreciation contains ten elements that are music prehension, aesthetic creativity to program music, aesthetic creativity to absolute music, music form, music aesthetic appreciation mode ect. The self-made music appreciation questionary has fairly validity and reliability, and can be used as the ivestigational tool to music appreciation.This research proves that there are different processing levels in music imagery, at the same time, it proves that music imagery processing level has actively positive role to music practical activities. And the high-lights of this positive research is that to analysis the implicit structure factors of music imagery and music appreciation; to clearify the difference between music imagery and music image; to deepen the understanding of the processing levels of music imagery; to prove that there are existing seven levels in music imagery processing, and the junior or senior levels have positive relations with music practical activities, set the music appreciation as an example. At the same time, it also testifies that cognitive strategy of music imagery is an effective instruction method to music education. This research, for the first time, offers the measure index and researching methods to music psychology, musicology, music aesthetics, and aesthetics of psycholgoy.
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