Liu Xie Yue Heart Poem "concept Musical Aesthetic Practice

people, at most of time, always ignore emotion during their music performance and activities. In fact,music and poem, as two kinds of art, have their own origin from ancient time but there seems a close relationship between them so as seldom to be split. Skimming through our five thousand years'history, the specific style of poem has been run through almost all the melodies and songs from Qin Dynasty to contemporary time. Shaped and carved by the long-cumulated Chinese culture, poetry has already been deeply permeated into the"marrow"of our traditional music culture. Liu Xie, one of the famous art critics in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, expressed numerous esthetics theories regarding to Chinese traditional music in his work called Wen Xin Diao Long, especially in the chapters Yue Fu, Sheng Lu, Ming Shi and Shi Xu. In Yue Fu, Liu Xie demonstrated the relationship between music and poem. His viewpoint on esthetics that"the essence of music is poetry"embodies the same working track of both music and poem and the ability of music to express feelings. The author of this essay was inspired by those famous works, planning to draw a whole picture of the relationship between music and poem. The essay starts its point from the viewpoint that"the essence of music is poetry"and made analysis on relative music pieces. All the analysis is woking for proving Liu Xiu's wise viewpoint on music and poem and his thought should be passed down by generations.Since the Industrial revolution, however, the conception- dividing work scientificly was advocated rapidly. The tread that too much emphasis was applied on specific work division and skill presentation is spreading to all fields, including arts and music. : On the aspect of theories, the existed western frame and structure is difficult to be broken due to copy too much from western Music on the style of melody and skills and always pay less attention on the culture essence and self-structure of our own Chinese traditional music. On the aspect of music creating, parts of modern Chinese melody creation are on the edge of losing the condensation and elegance of Chinese traditional music. On the aspect of music performance, the so-called"professional"performance is almost merely a kind of excessive pursuit for superior singing skills, diluting and violating the basis of music performance: singing and performing with naturally internal feelings.By analyzing from music creation and music performance, the last chapter of this essay points out and criticizes the phenomena that beauty of poem and real emotions has been gradually weakened in music creation, theories and performance, emphasizing"the essence of music is poetry"but the essence of poetry is"emotion". The issue on the importance of emotion in music is brought forward as the final conclusion.Therefore, the esthetics theory and rule that"ancient people singing songs with delivering emotions should be carried out , and the viewpoint on music appreciation that"the essence of music is poetry"should be passed down with ages goes by.