Resonance Is Essential In The Aesthethic Chain Of Music

Music art and the"visual art"have similarities in terms of general esthetic principles, but music art has a special characteristic that other arts are unable to possess, namely, affecting the human's emotion most directly and rapidly. This unique artistic quality of music is one of its important features that distinguish it from other arts, which are somehow related. Yet, this important feature is neglected in the basic theory studies of aesthetic chain of music. Moreover, the creation, appreciation and aesthetic theories on music have been confined in the mode of"visual arts"aesthetics. This makes music art unable to be clear about its own artistic characteristics and restricts the music creation and aesthetics and the independence and improvement of music aesthetics. According to the fact that music can affect the human's emotion most directly and rapidly, the author uses"resonance"to fill the blank of this foundational link of the chain of music aesthetics. Comparing music with other forms of art (painting, sculpture, literature, dance and movie), the thesis tries to demonstrate that music is essentially different from other arts, though they are somehow related, and the aesthetic process of music art is: resembling the prototype --- resonance --- intuition --- association sense --- aesthetics. Based on this, it further displays that the resonance of music art and human's emotion is acquired most directly and rapidly, without the help of rational transformation. However, the resonance of visual arts is just the opposite: it cannot skip the process of"feeling", which entails thought and rational analysis. The above theory is of great significance to clarify and fix the essential features of music art and to theoretically and logically get rid of the aesthetic though mode of"visual arts"to retain its own artistic feature (affecting human's emotion most directly and rapidly), and to help music aesthetics to separate form general esthetics.