Listening To Emotions:The "Emotional Experience Theory" Of Musical Expression

Different from the way that daily emotional experiences are gained,music participants who have mastered a musical style can gain emotional experiences through direct musical listening experiences.This process of emotional experience is exactly the same as the process of feeling the musical features of the music.The result of musical emotional experience comes directly from the corresponding musical expressiveness,and it maintains a high degree of consistency with that.Bases on the essential property that music existing and being perceived via the extension of time,the diversity,complexity,and integrity of the composition mechanisms of music,as well as the special nature of music as a non-perceived subject and the way to acquire emotional experiences from music.The emotional experience that music participants gain in the music experience is a special kind of musical “emotional experience” that has no emotional objects,lacks clear conceptual content,and has no utilitarian demand factors.The generation of this special “emotional experience” is referred to the fact that in the process of speech communication,with sound as a material carrier,emotional transmission and perception can be directly achieved through the characteristics of the tone.This fact shows that listening to sounds in an emotional way is an inherent feature of human hearing mechanisms.And the generation of this auditory mechanism,the generation of the emotional expressiveness of musical sound and intonation tone are determined by the cultural construction of the sound.