Study On Adorno’s Musical Aesthetic Thought

Musical aesthetics is a theoretical discipline that specializes in studying the aesthetic laws of musical art,which has been gradually paid attention to by domestic academic circles since 1980 s.Adorno is one of the important founders of the western Marxist school.He extended the negation and criticism in philosophy to musical aesthetics,and formed a unique ideological system of musical aesthetics.This paper discusses the important content of Adorno’s music aesthetics thought,which is to take the negative thinking as the core,pursue the truth content as the purpose,criticize the social phenomenon as the path,and finally realize the music "redemption" in the ideological field.This paper summarizes Adorno’s aesthetic criticism of pop music,focuses on grasping the current social value of his theory,and provides constructive suggestions for the development of contemporary Chinese music art.First of all,the author sorts out Adorno’s music aesthetic thoughts,which are mainly reflected in the following two basic attributes: the subjectivity and sociality of music;The dialectical and unified relationship between the content and form of music;The unity of opposites between collectivity and isolation reflected in the process of music creation and acceptance,and the ultimate goal of music in pursuing the true content.Secondly,through the careful reading and criticism of The Philosophy of New Music,this paper analyzes Adorno’s evaluation and attitude towards Schoenberg and Stravinsky,and then clarifies Adorno’s path to explore the truth of music,which is mainly reflected in the following aspects: First,it strengthens the transformation and development of musical language in the historical process;Second,pop music is an important product of the development of popular culture and music.From the perspective of social acceptance,the essence and disadvantages of pop music are analyzed and revealed.Thirdly,this paper analyzes the comprehensive theoretical achievements of Adorno’s music aesthetics thought,which mainly includes three aspects: First,his music aesthetics thought is the persistence and continuation of "negative dialectics" in the study of music aesthetics;Second,the beauty of music is the highly unity of truth and revolution;Thirdly,the multi-dimensional development of music aesthetics and music sociology has jointly promoted the progress and innovation of music aesthetics.Finally,it grasses the value and inspiration of Adorno’s music aesthetics to the development of Chinese music at present.First,it analyzes and summarizes the basic situation of the current music development in China,and briefly sorts out the disadvantages of the current pop music development.Secondly,based on the inspiration of Adorno’s music aesthetics thought,this paper explores the feasible way and direction of the development of Chinese music at present,and advocates that we should insist on maintaining the subjective music composer and creating self-disciplined music works.Thirdly,it proposes to reasonably negate and criticize the current music art,effectively integrate pop music and Chinese traditional music elements,and promote the construction of musical aesthetics system with Chinese characteristics.