Basic Conception Of Yueji Music Philosophy And It's Relative Comparative Studies

Yueji, a masterpiece of the Chinese music and aesthetic (philosophy), is the most important writing in Chinese history. It is never neglected when we take up research on Chinese music and aesthetic (philosophy).The 11 pieces preserved of Yueji include many contents of music, such as the basic, the character, the beauty, the social function of misic, and also, the relationship between music and etiquette, the relationship between formulary and the content of the music, and the relationship between the paleomusic and the modern music. Yueji is not only the summarize of the music before Qin dynasty, but also it has development on many direction. The thinking expressed from Yueji is the generalization of the Chinese music and aesthetics, it includes the traditional philosophy and aesthetics, such as Confuciusist and Taoists. It is reputed to be very valuable on music research even today. It is the embodiment of Chinese traditional musical philosophy.The content of Yueji is very extensive, and it touches on many direction, for example, from the origin of music to the basic theorem of music; from the relationship between music and poem, song and dance, to the category of music; from the correlation between music and etiquette to the social criterion of music; from the social function of music to the means of musical education. There are many excellent viewpoints which have strong effect on many fields even today in this writing. Yueji is epoch-making on Chinese traditional musical aesthetics research, it is not only a curiosity of Chinese ancient culture, but also enriched the art theory of the whole world.The writer of this article took Yueji, the Chinese music aesthetic classical work, as research object, put up detailed analysis and analogy on some important concept and category; then, the writer compared Chinese traditional philosophy(aesthetic) concept, which usually be called "Tian Ren He Yi", with Occident aesthetic classical art. It is also the comparison between Chinese traditional music philosophy ethic and Occident aesthetic ethics. Finally, thewriter compared Yueji with the论音乐的美—音乐美学的修改刍议(wrote by汉斯.力克), an Occident music aesthetic classical writing, combined music philosophy and ethnics, took the research on some concepts of Chinese traditional music philosophy(aesthetic) and Occident music philosophy.To sum up, music philosophy exists great difference between Chinese and Occident, but it also has some similarity on some concepts. Definitely, the ethics expressed by music of Chinese and Occident are exactly the same. We can say, the ethics expressed by musical composition are related to artists' morality and sentiment.