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Explore In Under The Influence Of Christianity, The Western Music Of Human Caring

Posted on:2014-01-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330398956199Subject:Western music history
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In the west,"humanity" is a complex and profound issue, it can besummarized as a series of abstract attribute of people’s sociality,corporality, animality, spirituality, and also can be specificallyreflected from every word and action in people’s life practice. Theexpression of "humanity" in Western music has a unique dimension and depth,it is good at leading humanity connotation towards a comprehensive, deep,continuous evolution, and meanwhile make themselves presents " constantlydeep" development process. This article taken this as research subject,attempts to analyze the characteristics of humanity expression of westernmusic from both synchronic and diachronic angle. It is to point out thatwestern music is a kind of art forms which is not in a fixed form to expressa single emotion, but to accommodate the human emotion and will as the"responsibility ". It is repository of dialectical, complex human factors,as well as to pursue the major issues of life makes its spirit connotationwith highly speculative means and philosophy heights. Western musicmeanwhile is in itself is constantly enrich and transform, two conceptsof change revealed that western music enrich the humanity and its loadbearing repository experienced process, which points to the western musicfor the eternal pursuit of "Constantly deep humanity ".Christianity is the cradle of the growth of western music, western musicthe first bears human dimensions which Christianity emphasized. On theSurface Christian music is to consolidate religious belief, actually itis strong focus on human spiritual world. Music to calm the mind, arousepeople’s consciousness. The following development of western music alsobenefits from the influence of Christianity, especially the attention andguide to people’s spirituality and transcendence not only prompted theexpression of western music “constantly deep”, but also help the westernmusic break through its "cultural qualitative" and acquire acceptance andapproval worldwide. Therefore, for the humanity development of western music culture motivation analysis, this article will focus to explore thesignificance and role of Christian spirit.
Keywords/Search Tags:Western music, humanity, constantly deep, Christian spirit
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