Music and the world it represents

Author: Zhou Haihong
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This study takes synesthetic relationships as a breakthrough, using empirical methods in psychology to prove six types of synesthetic correspondence patterns related to musical auditory perception: synesthesia related to pitch, synesthesia related to loudness, synesthesia related to temporal anticipation, synesthesia related to rate of change in time, synesthesia related to tension, and synesthesia related to novelty experience. Based on the foundation of synesthetic correspondence, this book further examines the process of the emergence of musical expressive objects from both the perspectives of creation and appreciation, addressing the questions of "how do expressive objects enter music, and how do they exit music to reach the listeners?" It also points out that the "multiplicity" and "uncertainty" of musical understanding are inevitable, while the commonality of understanding is conditional.