The structure of music

Music is invisible and intangible, but music is the most structured of all art forms, and music is a structured voice. And sound without any structural meaning will not become music. Let's take a look at the structure of music.

First, the plot structure

Many musical works try to use the plot process that can be expressed in words as the basis of their musical structure. The process of music becoming? Tell a story? This process.

In China, the most famous violin concerto is Butterfly Lovers, which is translated into English? Butterfly love? .

This piece will be put on the opera stage? Beautiful spring, three years of classmates' love, 18 sending away foreign servants for forced marriage, anti-marriage between Britain and Taiwan, literary color, urging marriage, balcony tryst, jumping to the grave angrily, all turned into butterflies? Completely put into the framework of instrumental concerto.

It is said that this song is also in line with tradition? Sonata? Structure, as long as? Sonata? When the framework does not conform to the clue of plot development, sonata? What is that? Plot? Compromise Therefore, should we say the subject? Liang Zhu? Is it? Plot structure? Be dominated by it.

The corresponding western example is Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's symphonic overture Romeo and Juliet. According to Shakespeare's tragedy, it's? Plot? It is also unmistakable.

The struggle between two feuding families, a boy and a girl, the seed of love fell in love and gave birth to sadness. Finally, the onlookers sighed helplessly, as if with? Liang Zhu? Very common. The difference is, where is Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky? Plot? With what? Sonata? When frames collide, that is, by? Plot? Where to? Sonata? Compromise. So, in? Liang Zhu? Yes,? Plot? Is true; Are you online? Roju？ Yes,? Plot? For virtual. Because a certain sound has a certain certainty about the real life world, which makes music work? Plot? As a structural basis. All sounds that people may hear or feel in their daily lives, such as water, wind, thunder, horns, singing, birds singing, dogs barking, hooves and so on. , there is the possibility of directly entering music or transforming into a certain form of music. So, with music? Tell a story? Naturally, it has become a music structure that people who start to contact music are willing to accept.

Second, the organizational structure

In fact, in most cases, music is not? Tell a story? Yes

Composers do not try to tell a story with a beginning, a beginning, a process, a plot and an ending in their works.

Music is like building blocks and houses to them. Every basic idea, every one? Raw materials? Are they all chess pieces? Brick? . Composers use these bricks to build exquisite or towering things? Architecture? Let's go Some composers use the same type of works? Brick? Set up a large monument.

For example, Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor (commonly known as? Fate? There is only one song in the first movement? Four-tone brick? (Boom, boom, boom) Over and over again. Some works are made by? Two bricks? Some works are made by? Three bricks? 、? Four bricks? Or more? Brick? It's built. Debussy is a very delicate and imaginative composer. Is he here? Build? His works usually need seven or eight or more bricks, and then they are spliced separately at different levels, thus creating a musical image different from his contemporaries, especially with a sense of hierarchy, color and light. In the organizational structure of music, it is very important to keep the level clear, meaningful and independent. Put the music building that has been built into shape? Deconstruction? Back to the original? Raw materials? Then reassemble these raw materials into works? Architectural form? This is the most direct and effective way to deeply understand and master the core of music works.

Third, the sound structure

As the materialization of music works, sound infects the audience with its special structural strength.

In the combination of musical instruments with different timbres, the alternation, handover, shift and contrast of musical instruments form a happy environment of cold and warm colors. In the musical instrument combination of the same family timbre, the changes of range, volume and playing method also cause the intensity of sound and the pleasure of emphasizing sharp circle. In music works, the contrast, change, echo and repetition of sound organization independently form its unique structural force, which may or may not be consistent with the organizational structure of music. The logical connection of sound itself constitutes an independent and indispensable internal structural force in music organization. For example, when the same music material is repeated with the same sound in a specific music part, or with different sounds, or different music materials appear in a prominent music part with the same sound structure, will the audience feel the sound? Structural? Lenovo. A simpler way is to associate a timbre with a specific music code, which will inevitably bring? Facial makeup? Tendency. Prokofiev's fairy tale reading Peter and the Wolf is a typical one? Fixed stereo? Examples. Flute and bird, oboe and duck, trombone and wolf, string and Peter are not only symbolic comparisons, but also become the structural pillars of music. In many music works, especially in modern and contemporary works, the structural function of sound color is greatly highlighted, which makes music organizations more similar and interlinked with painting (especially modern painting) in psychological feeling.

Fourth, the process structure

Music is like water, like flowing clouds.

Water is invisible, but the flow of water forms water? Structure? .

For example, the glaciers on the top of the mountain melt, and the water droplets gradually converge into a stream. All the streams converge from all directions and gradually converge into a stream; The river continues to flow forward, constantly gathering new water, or suddenly meets a cliff and turns into a waterfall, and the splashed water drops shine in the sun; Or under the block of the strange stone cliff, the road is tortuous; Or in the endless flat Yuan Ye, the river can't see the waves, and there is no microwave flowing slowly; Or the wind suddenly rises, rolling up thousands of piles of snow, stirring up ten thousand claw waves, and pushing the waves to a climax; Finally, the river becomes gentle again, quietly flowing into the boundless sea, invisible and interest-free. Experience water? Process? The easiest music to understand? Process? . The two are very close and similar. Any musical work must be like water, in? Time river bed? Medium flow. From the water? Flow structure? We can understand music. Flow structure? . This is not a static, frozen and rigid formal framework, but a continuous, continuous, changing and vivid process. From where? Shuizhou? Experience? Music? , is a good way to grasp the development form of music.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) thinking structure

People usually like to describe music in words.

In fact, human language and writing system can only express the feelings of music, but for the expression of the specific internal structure of music itself, language or writing always seems powerless and unintelligible. Music works are independent living bodies. Music has a logical thinking structure independent of writing and language system. If music is compared to a big tree, the first thing we see is its lush branches and bright crown. This is the last sound, after the twists and turns of melody, the change of harmony, and the modification of the timbre of the orchestration? Shape? . But what supports the rich and beautiful flowers and leaves are the large and small flowers and leaves covered by flowers and leaves? Branches? . These branches are all made of bigger branches? Trunk? Grow out of the world. And the trunk is deeply embedded in the soil, its? Root cause? Deep in the soil. You can't see clearly without digging. As we all know, roots and crowns are symmetrical. How big is the canopy towering in the air, how big are the roots buried deep underground. Is a musical work? Ears? Is that clear? Close shot? Namely. Mosaic? As a supporting skeleton? Mid shot? Namely. Branches? What is the most important but not easy to notice behind the appearance effect? Vision? Namely. Root cause? . Just like when cherry blossoms are in full bloom, people can feel the beauty of flowers like clouds from a distance, and they can only see them when they are near? One by one? It is impossible to know the shape of its roots without digging a deep pit with picks and shovels. This is the logical thinking structure of music. Dominate the most basic structure of music works? Root? , maybe a few notes, maybe a few chords or intervals (they can naturally be regarded as? How many tones? ), from these basic sounds (? Root? ) on? Grow up? Out of some? Branch? Around these? Branch? , again? Packaging? Melody, harmony, voice and timbre are more subtle, tortuous, trivial and exquisite details, which make this big tree flourish. This particular reason? Root? (within) to? Flowers? By (external) (creative process)? Flowers? Go (outside)? Root? The two-way logic (internal) (appreciation or acceptance process) just reveals the special way of thinking structure that music is different from words or languages.

Sixth, the psychological structure.

When people appreciate a piece of music, they usually don't follow what is stated in any music theory book? Formal structure? Mode.

Tell the audience where it is. The first theme? Where is it? Second theme? Listening to music is of little practical value to them. The process of the audience accepting music works is a purely psychological process, so the feelings formed by any music works in the audience's mind are different? Psychological structure? . Music unfolding as a process is closer to the fluctuation of tides. The ups and downs of water waves, the rolling of waves, the gradual rise, climax and ebb of tides are all induced in the listener's mind, which is the psychological structure of music. In a sense, the psychological process of music is the closest psychological process among all art forms. This is also in line with the tidal fluctuation process. The psychological structure of music synchronized with sexual psychological process is deeply rooted in the origin of music development. This is also the deepest reason why music can shock the human mind.

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