The Thought Of Ancient Chinese Music Psychology And Development,

Psychology of Music is a newly arisen course that combines psychology and music activities, studying the mankind's various musical activity from the angle of the psychology. The research of the Chinese modern musical psychology has begun from the 1980's. Up until now, the focus of most of the researches has been to introduce the publications of the western music psychology. However, researches concerning localization characteristics are still weak, and the integrity and systems study of the results of musical psychology thought of Chinese ancient musical documents are also quite rare.In China, musical documents concerning description of mental activity and mental regulation appeared in as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The thesis of those documents updates from the connection of music and nature to the one of music and people, which lasted for 2,000 years. The study results include the sayings in ancient documents, the independent articles and specialized musical works. The researches cover almost all the scopes the modern musical psychology is studying, such as the relation of music and public reason, creation the physiology mechanism of musical mental state phenomenon, musical mental effect, musical social function, musical listening mental state, musical perform mental state, musical creations mental state, musical health and treatment, the function of music to mold the complete personality of individual etc. The mental phenomena involve: musical feeling, musical motion, musical emotion, musical imagination and association of thought, musical comprehend and judge, musical...