Emotional Wisdom Speculative History

By taking the formalized concept in the western musical ideas as clues, the article tries to rationalize and comment from the angel of time progress. It points out that, the formal concept has a close relationship with the overall rationalized specialties of the western music, which is reflected not only in the formation and establishment of the western music, but also in the process of their tendency towards creativeness and aesthetic autonomy of the modern and contemporary western music.The musical form that the article focuses on belongs not only to the level of musical philosophy, but also to a kind of historic category. The author thinks that the formal uniqueness of the western music lies in the highly developed rational thinking. However, the formal concept plays a necessary role in it. From the point of the evolution of the aesthetic modernity and musical aesthetic autonomy, the author examines the deep meanings of Hanslick's Formal Autonmie and says that, Instrumental self-consciousness, represented by its concept of absolute music, is a legal status appeal requested by the western music after it getting into modernity. Based upon the highly developed musical ideas, it must be embodied as some reviewing spirits at the philosophical level.By way of taking some great thinkers as examples, this article tries to put forward a new kind of way of thinking in music aesthetics. The author emphasizes that the opening-up characters of hearing perception and the objectivity of musical values should be the essential concerns made by the music aesthetics. In the study of music aesthetics, we should invert the positions of host and guest of music aesthetics and go back to the broadening of the musical perceptual order towards the subjective perceptional ability, then treat music as a kind of unique perceptual intelligence.Finally, the writer thinks that the deep understanding to the culture of western music will strongly improve our innovation and reformation to our own traditions. In regard with this aspect, the Formal provides us with great enlightenments.