Zhong Ziqi's 'The Communication Of Music'

Jiazhen Zhang (Jzhang82)

Professor Derek Strykowski

MUS115

12/09/2016

The Communication of Music Music is made for the listeners to enjoy, understand, appreciate and communicate. There is a popular historical story in Chine about the communication through the music. In the story, Boya plays the ancient Chinese instrument, Qin. Zhong Ziqi as a listener, recognized the Mount Tai, rivers, and oceans under the music of Boya. The term, Zhiyin, which means knowing the tons of each other, is used to describe such communication through the music. The communication is between the creators and listeners. It is not a single case that listeners can feel the meanings inside of the music. Music can express its ideas and emotions by its melodies, beats, textures, and rhythms. Music can communicate with the listener. The expressions of music can touch a certain degree of understanding and resonance. The communication of

From the point of the specific forms, music can be defined with the senses of listeners. The meaning of the music can be directly showed with the sound and forms. At the same time, the content and the form will get together to express the emotion and sentiment behind different kinds of feelings and emotions. Of course, the music contains the choice of reality, knowledge, and attitude of the composers. To make music a harmonious art, composers may use a series of compare, symbol, relative thinking, and the method of organic integrity. Within the communication of music, the listeners have to experience a process of contrary to the composer through the existing objective acoustics. The communication can be defined as understanding, understanding the connotation of the works and the artist's mind. It is obvious that without the corresponding knowledge structure and a good creation ability of the music, it is not possible to complete the communication process between the creators and