It is a building. Expand your imagination! Hegel once reminded the relationship between music and architecture: "Music and architecture are closest to each other, because like architecture, music places its creation on proportion and structure." The structure of architecture is formed from the creation of mathematics and mechanics, and architecture The overall beauty of the object is closely related to absolute, simple, and understandable mathematical proportions. Therefore, all architects regard proportion as one of the first principles of architectural formal beauty. Architecture is a kind of plastic art. People experience its beauty from its balance, symmetry, layout and other forms. Although music is an art of time, musical language and its elements similar to building materials must also be reasonably combined in a certain logical way to form a diverse unity, so that people can feel the continuity, dynamics and integrity of music. , and experience the beauty of music. This kind of specific mutual relationships and composition methods composed of musical language and its elements is the structure of music. For example: Baroque buildings use bizarre decorations to inspire dazzling jewels; use the illusion produced by perspective to increase the sense of layering and space; use architectural concave and convex, undulating, light and shadow changes, chiaroscuro and other techniques , making the building dynamic and creating a dramatic and bizarre atmosphere. Like Baroque architecture, Baroque music pursues a fantasy and painterly approach, using stepped intensity changes, endless musical melodies, complex polyphonic styles, crazy emotional outpourings, etc. to exaggerate detailed emotions and enrich expressions. The dramatic ups and downs that form the music. What kind of typical beautiful form breaks the traditional music. Due to the modeling function of music sound, the beauty of music is most directly reflected in the formal characteristics of music, which embodies the formal beauty rules of human art. The inner connection between music and architecture 1. Contrast in style Architecture is a form-based plastic art, which can arouse similar emotional responses to listening to music. In music, we can grasp certain architectural elements from its formal beauty. The spire-like Gothic buildings in the Middle Ages guide people to look up to the sky; the dome-shaped buildings popular in the Renaissance express humanistic ideas, not asking people to look towards God, but towards the world. 2. The technique of repetition In music creation, "repetition" is one of the most important basic techniques of composition, and the same is true for architectural design. There are striking similarities between the two. In architecture, this repetition must of course be the repetition of visually visible elements caused by architectural design, such as light and shadow, regardless of color, pillars, openings and interior volumes, etc. Most of the effect of a building depends on the coordination of these rhythmic relationships. Achieved by simplicity and power. The repetition of the continuous arches of the Colosseum in Rome, the graceful colonnades of Greek temples, the repetition of pointed arches and verticals in Gothic churches, and the repetition of the corridors of the Summer Palace in Beijing, etc., all have the kind of regular patterns that can be found in classical music. of repetition. Therefore, those undulating buildings are so harmonious and harmonious because they are rich in beautiful "melody" and embody the unique laws of architectural beauty. Those magnificent symphonies are so symmetrical and complete because they have a rigorous structure and embody the unique laws of musical beauty. 3. Structurally grasp the formal structure in music, such as the smallest structure in the form - beginning, succession, transition, and combination (called statement, consolidation, development, and ending in traditional European music), a four-sentence square section, among which The structure is strikingly similar to the typical courtyard structure in Beijing. As the four movements of a large-scale musical symphony, it can also be said to be an expansion of the beginning-succession-transition-reunion. The beauty of music also includes the beauty of musical structure. However, the structure of the music is limited by and serves the thematic content of the work. In the process of repetition, variation, expansion, derivation, contrast, and reproduction of the theme, the structure sometimes emphasizes change and sometimes emphasizes unity, which is completely based on the needs of the content. For example: in the reproduction part of the violin concerto "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", the author omitted the sub-part of "Classmate *** Reading" that appeared in the presentation part according to the needs of the content of the work. 4. Communication in creation When composers create music, they are often more or less influenced by architectural art, intentionally or unintentionally. For example, when Beethoven was composing the "Eroica Symphony", he was inspired by certain architectural groups in Paris. In his "Third Symphony", Schumann wanted to express the magnificence and majesty of the appearance of Cologne Cathedral. As for the principles of architectural art such as theme and image (shape), unity and balance, contrast and harmony, proportion and scale, rhythm and rhythm, repetition and change, character and style, color and tone, etc. in architectural design, this is consistent with the art of music creation. The two are closely related in terms of aesthetic information. If designers of architectural projects can learn more about music and comprehensively improve their artistic quality and accomplishment, they will definitely gain greater and more freedom in architectural creation and design, as well as more beneficial enlightenment and wonderful inspiration. Goethe, the great German poet, said that he deeply felt the melody of music while walking in the colonnades of the square in front of the Roman Cathedral designed by Michelangelo; Liang Sicheng, the great Chinese architect, discovered the harmonious rhythm from the corridors of the Summer Palace.
When standing on the top of Jingshan Mountain and looking down at the Forbidden City complex in Beijing, along the central axis we can see the symphonic themes and counterpoint in ancient Chinese architecture