Research on Relations between Experiences and Object & Basic Theory of Musical Aesthetics

Abstract

Musical aesthetics is developed from the development of aesthetics, musical historiography, music criticism and other disciplines. Musical aesthetics draws essences from such disciplines and also presents unique disciplinary characteristics. From such perspectives as philosophy, psychology, sociology and aesthetic meaning of musical works, musical aesthetics explores for the nature of music, functional pattern of music and value standard of music. Research object is served as the initial point of research of any discipline. Musical aesthetics specifies its research objects, and its research objects are enriched with changing times, promoting establishment and enrichment of the disciplinary system. In this paper, a brief introduction is made to research objects and basic principles of music. Besides, the author also lays emphasis on the ontology and disciplinary system. At last, a simple analysis is made on relations between experiences and existing way of basic principles of musical aesthetics. Musical aesthetics is an auditory-experience-based discipline of philosophy of art, which utilizes conceptual analysis, philosophical recognition and other methods to reveal universal laws for aesthetic establishment and practice of human music. Similar to common humanistic disciplines, chief issue of musical aesthetics is the object of research, which concerns both domain of discourse and research objective of musical aesthetics, and decides its disciplinary nature and development orientation. Musical aesthetics dates from the second half of the 19 th century. Through researches and explorations by numerous people, fascinating achievements are made in both theoretical and practical fields, promoting long-term development of musical aesthetics. In the process of document analysis, however, the author finds that there are still considerable different views for the cognition of research object of musical aesthetics. Therefore, the author arranges achievements and experiences of previous researches, combines actual conditions of musical aesthetics at present, and obtains the research object of musical aesthetics from the field of disciplinary system, which is helpful for deep development of this discipline.