Composers come into contact with a large number of objective things in real life, which are often beautiful and ugly in the unprocessed state. Through perceptual and rational activities such as understanding, familiarity and cognition, we can gain profound aesthetic feelings and experiences and arouse creative desire. What can arouse this desire for creation is not only the beauty and ugliness in nature and social life, but also the artistic beauty in poetry, literature, painting, sculpture, drama and other works of art. The composer's rich life practice, personal hobbies, personality, quality and various aspects of self-cultivation have a decisive influence on the formation of creative desire. It is very important for composers to have strong feelings about the life they want to reflect. Emotion plays an important role in the whole creative process, running through the whole creative process.
Compared with other arts, composers have slightly different views on life experiences. He often pays little attention to the specific details of life, but pays attention to getting feelings and enlightenment from life, emphasizing the overall impression, atmosphere and movement process of life. Perhaps what goes further is a certain artistic conception, the charm in life, the feeling and understanding of the essence of life and so on. This is because it is difficult to directly express the creative characteristics brought by specific images in music (real life and ideas can only be indirectly reflected in music by means of comparison, metaphor, symbol, generalization and abstraction). It is also possible for composers to get creative impulse through indirect life experience, as long as the life image, charm and essence reflected by these arts and the feelings and experiences caused by them are familiar to composers. Similarly, composers can also get inspiration from previous music, especially folk music, because these are concrete reflections of life in typical music in history. But the premise of indirectly experiencing life is to directly experience the long-term accumulation of life.
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The process that composers transform their creative impulses and emotions into acoustics is the formation of basic musical ideas. One of the three links in music creation.
The characteristic of music art is that sound is its material material, which is real life, concrete objects, thoughts, emotions, artistic conception and so on. It should be transformed into a voice dominated by music. Usually, composers always learn from past musical achievements, analyze, judge and refine previous musical expressions and techniques, and make new creations through their own redesign, arrangement and imagination, resulting in new acoustics. Therefore, being familiar with historical music documents, understanding folk music and mastering the characteristics of music language are important conditions for creation. The influence and inspiration brought by contemporary music works are also very important. There is a relationship between inheritance and innovation, and there is a relationship between reference and digestion.
The formation of basic music plays an important role in creativity. The basic music thought is the crystallization of the composer's most typical, generalized and emotional subjective feelings about the real life to be reflected. When converting into music, it may be a rhythm, a specific chord progression and a basic skeleton of two counterpoint methods at first, but the most common one is motivation, or a musical theme, which lays the foundation for the whole music. When the basic musical ideas appear, we will consider the specific forms of expression such as genre, style and musical mode. It can be said that at the beginning of creation, the problem of image-building has been envisaged at the same time. It is difficult to separate the content and form of music.
In the process of creation, the outstanding requirements are: the corresponding relationship between specific content and actual sound. To this end, composers often sing (play) repeatedly, and make appropriate modifications and adjustments to their own music to achieve the best unity of the two. In this sense, creativity is characterized by gradually shaping music through the combination of improvisation and performance.
As for the mystery of creation, there have been many opinions and controversies in history because of different understandings of music art. One thing in common among various viewpoints is to emphasize the role of inspiration. In fact, inspiration is a leap phenomenon after a long and arduous conception activity, which often comes suddenly and gives the composer an "epiphany", and often appears more than once. When inspiration appears, the corresponding relationship between specific content and actual sound is often in the best state, which can greatly promote the progress of creative activities.
Shape; appearance
In the process of materializing the content (musicalization), the main problem is to gradually expand the basic musical ideas to produce concrete forms to meet the requirements of formal beauty. One of the three links in music creation.
We should create vivid, vivid, touching and original works with appropriate music language according to the laws of music art itself and certain music logic. Skilled writing skills and rich and varied expressions are very important. When creating an image, we should not only determine the form according to the needs of the content, but also make appropriate adjustments to the content according to the requirements of formal beauty. The relationship between them is mutually restrictive and causal. In creation, the original ideas are often revised, changed, enriched and polished repeatedly.
The shaping of music image, from the requirement of formal beauty, is to have a logical and developing sense of movement, so that music can achieve diverse unity through repetition, change, balance, contrast and layering. With the development of times, nationalities and society, this basic principle has shown different musical structures, styles and changes in history. How to create music with the style of the times, national style and individuality, and make innovations in both form and content, which is often the goal of the composer's lifelong efforts.
After the form of music is finalized, it can usually be regarded as the completion of creation. But in fact, this finished product still has to pass the performance test. Players and listeners will put forward different opinions and reactions to it, and composers will also make some modifications and changes.
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Music creation type
① Instrumental music. Through different genres, the reflection of reality is summarized as expression and modeling, and the subjective emotional experience of reality is brought into a certain form according to the law of formal beauty to express profound ideological connotation. For the opening song, it can be emphasized that through the enlightenment of the opening song, it is easier to combine the realistic and perceptual thoughts.
Two songs. The formal rules of lyrics are the same, which makes their feelings relatively fixed, and various ideological connotations are transformed into their own experiences and explanations. ③ Drama music. Including the combination with other arts, such as ballet and opera. It mainly evaluates the characters' personality, activities and reactions subjectively, transforms them into emotional expressions and experiences, and fixes their movement process into concrete forms. At this time, music is the emotional expression of another art, and this art becomes the concrete image expression of music. As for its primary and secondary relationship, it varies from situation to situation, and its ideological connotation is often directly reflected by this art.
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Impromptu creative performance
The composer is also a performer (singer), which is also called improvisation. It first appeared in the early stage of ancient music, but it still appears in different forms in music all over the world. Improvisation has different traditions because of the times and nationalities. It is a creative activity that composers (or performers) concretize the music content according to the instant feelings, and it presents different forms with the performance level and live performance of the creators. Improvisation is characterized by passion, live play and flexibility, but it is not easy to be perfect because of its short time and no room for deliberation. Therefore, in the process of music development, it is gradually divided into two different stages: creation and performance. In the contemporary performance practice, there are still improvisational elements, such as the music of some ethnic groups in the East and jazz music in the West. Some modern composers in the west sometimes emphasize improvisational factors, such as accidental music and some avant-garde works, which are intended to emphasize the uncertainty and contingency of music, and their basic meanings are different.