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Music aesthetics studies music performance from different angles, clarifies the essence of music, and provides new ideas for music performance. It pays attention to the process of human consciousness activity towards music aesthetics. When humans produce aesthetic consciousness, they have already produced music aesthetics [1]. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, music aesthetics theory began to appear in Europe. After a century of development, music aesthetics has gradually formed a perfect theoretical system [2], which not only helps to enhance the tension of music performance, but also helps realize the diversification of music performance styles. Musical aesthetics is a key factor in promoting the development of music performance.
1. Related theories of music aesthetics
Music shows the connotation of musical works in the form of performance or performance. Most of the creation of music works is inspired by life. Music creators integrate the emotions they want to express into their music works to show their own emotions. The main content of aesthetics is aesthetic experience. Different music styles and forms will bring different aesthetic experiences. The research on this is music aesthetics. Musical aesthetics has rich connotations. The integration of music aesthetics into music performance is conducive to showing the style charm of music performance. Compared with amateur music lovers, professional musicians have more understanding of music aesthetics and can show the charm of music performance on more levels [3]. If you want to study music aesthetics more deeply, you need to understand the procedures of music performance, use music knowledge proficiently, give full play to music performance ability, and realize the integration of music aesthetics and music performance. When performing music performances, performers need to incorporate their personal understanding of music, focus on expressing musical themes and musical thoughts, and show their own musical aesthetic characteristics. Therefore, music performers need to master music knowledge and study music aesthetics in order to better understand the inner spirit of music and improve the level of music performance.
2. The influence factors of music aesthetics on music performance
(1) Emotional factors
As an art, music achieves survival and development through performance, and music performance gives music vitality. Before the birth of music scores, music learning was mainly based on word of mouth. Learners interpret the connotation of musical works based on their personal perceptions, taste the aesthetic taste of music creators, and then use artistic processing to incorporate personal spirit and emotion into the performance. Performers should use their personal perceptions to highlight the beauty of the work, pay attention to digging out the connotation of the work, continuously improve their own aesthetic ability, fully demonstrate the inherent beauty of the music work, and provide the audience with a good audio-visual experience. When comprehending the beauty of music, performers need to do a good job in the secondary creation of musical works [4], and the emotion of the performers into musical works directly affects the success of the secondary creation.
(2) Aesthetic concept factors
The performer’s aesthetic concept has a direct impact on the music performance process, and it is related to whether the music performer can accurately grasp the emotional connotation of music works. The difference in aesthetic concept promotes the formation of a rich performance style. Music performers should choose repertoires that suit their personal characteristics, personal aesthetic interest, and personal aesthetic value. If the repertoire of the performance is inconsistent with the performer’s aesthetic concepts and emotions, the music performance will be very blunt and unable to show a sense of nature. A deep understanding of the theory of music aesthetics can not only provide guidance for music performances, but also help reconstruct the performers’ aesthetic concepts and promote the formation of new aesthetic concepts for the performers. Music performers are guided by advanced aesthetic concepts, integrate technical and emotional factors, conquer the audience with superb performance skills, infect the audience with rich emotions, and show the infinite charm of musical works.
(3) The artistic imagination factor
In the process of interpretation and secondary creation of musical works, by exploring the connotation of the works, the audience can be guided to integrate into the music context, and the audience can have emotional resonance with the music. In the process of reconstructing the emotional space of music creators, music performers can use their own imagination, effectively use performance skills, and show the charm of music performance with the help of the fusion of music aesthetic theory, imagination, and performance skills. From the perspective of a music performer, only by learning to appreciate beauty and accumulating emotional experience can the performance impress the audience. For example, the dramatic and poetic interpretation of Li Yundi’s piano performance is not superficial, but shows unparalleled performance techniques and continuous beautiful timbre, demonstrating Li Yundi’s powerful artistic imagination. Li Yundi’s aesthetic preferences are consistent with the meaning of Chopin’s piano music, which makes the performance calm and introspective, the phrases are free and flexible, the melody is delicate and smooth, and the flexible transformation of pleasure and sadness is realized.
3. The effect of music aesthetics on music performance
(1) Conducive to a deep understanding of the meaning of the performance
Examining music performance from the perspective of music aesthetics can not only better understand and explain music performance, but also realize the secondary creation of music works with the help of music practice, thereby further deepening the connotation of music works and enriching the spirit of music works. Examining music performance with the aid of music aesthetics can also give the viewer aesthetic enjoyment and let the listener deeply understand the emotions conveyed by the music works.
(2) Conducive to the realization of the second creation of music performance
Musical aesthetics includes knowledge of phenomenological aesthetics, which can enrich the connotation of musical works during musical performances. In the process of music performance, music performers should combine the connotation of the work, take the theme space of the work as the starting point, integrate modern aesthetic concepts into the music performance, and fully interpret the connotation of the work with the help of re-creation of the work. Music performers focus on the imagery of musical works to fully demonstrate the composer’s creative intentions, enrich the connotation of the performance, and increase the value of the performance.
(3) Conducive to effective interpretation of performance works
Understanding the creator’s creative purpose, creative significance and mastering the creative thinking of music creators are of great significance for in-depth interpretation of the aesthetic elements and spiritual connotations contained in the works. Due to the differences in aesthetic concepts of different music performers, in order to interpret music works more deeply, it is necessary to dig out the connotation of music works from multiple angles. From the perspective of music performers, in order to show the charm of the work more perfectly, express the rich emotional connotation of the work, and realize the re-creation of the performance, it is necessary to master the theory of music aesthetics and fully interpret the original work through musical performance. Otherwise, it will be impossible. Talk about musical performances.
4. The influence of music aesthetics on music performance
(1) The integration of music art and music performance
Musical aesthetics is an important part of the philosophy of art, and it is also a basic discipline of musicology. From the perspective of music professionals, music aesthetics directly affects music performance and music creation. If only relying on a single technique, the degree of mechanization of music performance will be very serious, and it will be difficult for the audience to feel the beauty of music art. Incorporating music aesthetics into music performance is conducive to revealing the true emotions of the work, giving the audience a beautiful enjoyment and deep soul shock. A successful performance is a performance with a soul, which embodies the real musical art. Therefore, the integration of musical aesthetics and musical performance should be promoted to achieve the optimization of artistic effects. As an important part of national culture, traditional national music is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Chinese nation, directly reflecting people’s historical outlook and life experience. Through the integration of music aesthetics and national music culture, it can not only reflect the weight of national culture, but also It can also show the breath of the times of musical performance. Take the Erhu performance of “Erquan Reflected in the Moon” as an example. Before performing the work, the performer needs to understand and analyze the relevant content of the work, such as the characteristics of timbre matching, emotional expression characteristics, creative background, etc., and experience the emotion of the work through in-depth study of the creative background. Only then can we deeply grasp the content and meaning of the work, and then realize the perfect integration of music aesthetics and music performance. By summarizing the essential laws of music discovered by music aesthetics, it can provide guidance for music performers and sustain national culture.
(2) Ensure the originality and creativity of music performance
Musical works must have authenticity and originality, and performers must incorporate their own real emotions when performing musical works to ensure that the musical performance can arouse the emotional resonance of the audience. Before performing a music performance, performers must analyze musical works in depth, with the help of music aesthetics related knowledge, in-depth study of the emotional expression of musical works, the background of the times, etc., combine the creation environment and historical background of the work to feel the creator’s thoughts, and deeply appreciate the unique charm of musical works , Highlighting the creativity of musical works. In order to ensure the creativity of musical works, music performers need to integrate aesthetic concepts and aesthetic concepts into their works, and use various actions to interpret musical works, so as to promote musical works to shine in the context of the new era and broaden the audience’s horizons. For example, “War Horse Galloping”, as an erhu work that shows indomitable and tenacious fighting spirit, needs to emphasize the style of barracks rhapsody during the performance. Passion is of the utmost importance in performance. Only by understanding the work with passion can the performance of the work play an inspiring role. In order to further understand the work, the performer should pay attention to improving his personal artistic quality and realize the combination of inheritance and innovation.
(3) Combination of aesthetics, skills and style
In order to be able to use music to infect oneself and others, performers must not only immerse themselves in the work, but also realize music creation with the purpose of appreciating music works. According to the concept of music aesthetics, performers not only need to follow the original score when performing, but also need to creatively do the second creation of musical works, strive to express their artistic conception, show their style, and give soul to the musical performance. To grasp the style of music works more accurately, it is necessary to pay attention to the study of music aesthetics. Only a deep understanding of the background and culture of song creation can show the charm of songs. From the perspective of erhu performance, before performing erhu, performers must analyze and understand the work based on the creation background of the work, the mood of the work, and the timbre of the work. By studying the nuances of the music work, you can appreciate the emotion of the work and express the meaning of the work more deeply. , The combination of style and aesthetics directly affects the perfection of Erhu performance.
V. Conclusion
As a product of the objectification of human aesthetic consciousness, music works must conform to the pursuit of human aesthetic consciousness. As a huge social discipline, music aesthetics absorbs sociology, philosophy and other knowledge, takes the essential laws of music and music practice as research objects, highlights the charm of music performance from new angles and perspectives, promotes the research of music aesthetics, and continuously innovates and improves music performance. In the process of musical performance, musical aesthetics has expanded new ideas for it, which is conducive to the performers’ in-depth understanding of musical works, and the interpretation of the connotation of musical works with performance skills and emotions. The combination of music aesthetics and music performance is conducive to the realization of the re-creation of musical works.
