论我国早期音乐“以乐为主”的艺术特点

On the Artistic Features with Happiness-Dominated of Chinese Ancient Music

本文从文字象形、音乐起源、乐器形式以及古代文献记载等方面,全面分析了我国早期音乐以表达快乐情感为主的艺术特点,并认为即使在西周,礼乐结合,音乐所表达的情感要受到礼的规范和节制,但雅乐仍然以表达快乐情感为主,从而证明"乐者乐也"正是先民对于音乐抒情特点的审美认识。

This thesis made comprehensive analysis on the artistic features with happiness-dominated of Chinese ancient music in terms of pictographs, the source of music, musical instruments and the ancient documents, etc,,, Although the feelings expressed by the music was controlled by the rites and music system in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the emotion of the court music still expressed pleasure primarily, which proved that ＂music show happiness＂ was the aesthetic cognition of the ancients to the characteristic of music,