略论老子“大音希声”的音乐审美观

Simply on Laozi's Music Aesthetic View in his Words 'The Extremely Loud Sound Can Not be Heard'

“大音希声”是我国春秋时期著名思想家、哲学家老子提出的关于声音的美学观点。其“大音”即是“道”本身的声音,也是世界上最美好的声音、最纯粹的声音。从这种声音派生出世界上一切可以称得上美好的声音。老子以“希声”之音为美,他崇尚自然,主张清静无为。老子以“道法自然”的“希声”之音为典范,从而派生出了“弦外之音”的音乐审美观。而“弦外之音”的欣赏层面所揭示出的创造性思维则是一个多元而复杂的过程。因此,了解和注重人们的审美取向,借鉴老子基于“道法自然”的“大音希声”的音乐审美思想,对现实的音乐审美活动有着十分重要的现实意义。

The extremely loud sound can not be heard' was the aesthetic view about sound put forward by Laozi, a famous thinker and philosopher in the period of Spring and Autumn of China His word 'the sound that can not be heard' is the sound of 'dao, standing for principle' itself, as well as is the most beautiful and the purest sound. From this sound all the fine sound in the world is derived. Laozi took the sound of 'the unheard sound' as fine. He advocated nature, held 'discarding all desires and worrying from one's mind', took the sound of 'unheard sound' of the'dao follows nature' as the model, from which the music aesthetic view of'overtones' was derived; while the creative idea uncovered by the enjoying layer of 'overtones' is a multivariate and complex process. Therefore, understanding and paying attention to man's aesthetic direction and borrowing the experience of laozi's music aesthetic view based on 'The extremely loud sound can not be heard' of 'dao follovvs nature' have very important practical meaning for the present music aesthetic action.