Abstract:

The emotionality of music is first expressed as the individual pleasant emotional experience caused by music, which is an inevitable emotional demand of a listener. The emotions associated with music should not be excessive, so they should be balanced and corrected by rites. In this way, individuals can not only achieve themselves in the emotionality of music, but also live in harmony with others by understanding and satisfying others’ emotions. Music has temporality. Music can achieve its continuous and ceaseless state in time and contain the time sequence of heaven and earth. In the process of imitating the laws of four seasons and day and night, it will be continuous and self-renewal like time so as to adapt to the needs of different times and the flexibility and implementation of rites in different situations. With the communication between the way of heaven and the way of humans and the communication between metaphysical and physics, music can maintain itself between heaven and earth, and closely connect with the genuine and ever-flowing life of an individual. This constitutes the generativity of music. Rooted in the ever-flowing life and related to the cultivation and perfection of virtue, the generativity of music not only gives an individual endless power, but also fills the music with a vibrant vitality. In such music, individuals constantly draw energy, becoming affectionate, righteous and enriched.

Key words: music, rites, emotion, time, generativity