Analyzing The Form Process Of Vocabulary Of Instrumental Music From The Perspective Of Music Expression

People always think instrumental music is a non-meaning music form due to its character ofnon-vision and non-semantic. This article tries to make an analysis on the vocabulary of earlyinstrumental music from the late renaissance period to Baroque period.There are three chapters in this article. In the first chapter, this article recollects all the ideographicfunction and methods from ancient Greek to renaissance period and exhibits the reflection andideographic character of music in the comprehensive arts, religious worship and daily life. Itindicates that ideographic idea exists in the complete historical process of the development ofmusic. The development of Instruments, in a word, is under the highly prosperous synthetic arts.On the basis of the above idea, the second chapter explores the generative process of thevocabulary of instrumental music and its deep relationship with synthetic arts. This article thenpoints out that the form process of instrumental vocabulary absorbs and references the ideographicmethods of ordinary and dance music and contains an ideographic character. In early time, thereare three common instrumental vocabulary types, including emotional vocabulary influenced bymusic rhetoric, music-image vocabulary inherited from word-painting and sentimental vocabularyoriginated from dance music. It indicates that these early vocabularies provides referable materialsource for the development of instruments in later period and have an influence on the thinking ofinstrument creation. This article enumerates large amounts of examples to analyze and testify thesaid idea.In the last chapter, this article makes a further discussion on the remains and influence of earlyinstrumental vocabulary, finding that early instrumental vocabulary has a mutation in the historicaldevelopment, while its expression information also has a partial loss, which hampers listeners’understanding towards music. Hence, we could better understand and feel Western instrumentalmusic by studying the early instrumental vocabulary. At the same time, we could also partly provethat instrumental music indeed has an ideographic function, which is a wrong idea in the past.