On The Non-rational Essentials Of Music According To Its Functions

Music is one of the most important and the most glamour field of spirit in human life. It exists in all ways of social life and has huge function that anyone can't ignore. Music realizes its social functions not by conceptions, judgements, and inferences but by emotion, experience, sense, and intuition. It is because that music is a non-rational activity in mature. And non-rational activity is a necessary part of human activities. It consists of the human essentials with rationality. As for human practice and development, non-rational activity is an absolutely necessary element in human development and an organic part of modern healthy personality. Actually, non-rationality only is a theoretical abstraction. It often mingles with rationality. Its development comprises the original unity, the division, and the re-unity in new historical period. It means, exactly, modern music is a non-rational spiritual phenomenon, which includes many rational elements and is often dominated by rationality. Due to its multifunctions, music has its important significance to nurture and educate the healthy personality. We should pay much attention to music functions, and particularly to music education.