关于音乐学研究对象与方法的再思考

Rethinking of the Object and Methods of Musicological Research

随着理论工作者的不断探索,音乐学术界近年来出现了一系列争议:音乐学各学科的研究对象、方法到底是什么?它们是否应该一成不变?音乐美学的研究对象是否只能是"艺术音乐"而不应包括"民族的、民间的音乐"在内?本文提出了自己的观点:划分音乐学各学科边界的依据有二,一是音乐学这门学科产生和发展的历史过程;二是回到事实的原点,依据解释音乐现象、解决理论问题所需要的方法。是"视角"决定了"对象",而"对象"则要求研究者采取与之相适应的理论方法与工具。在音乐学的学术研究中应当倡导"体系让位于探索"的精神。

As musicologists in China continue to explore there have been different opinions in the academic field as to whom the objects of our research are and what methods we should use.Should our research always follow the same path? Should music aesthetics include folk music as it did 'art music?' This essay makes its argument regarding the basis to be used in outlining the border for an academic discipline,1) the foundation and development of the discipline,and 2) tracing back to the starting point of the facts and explaining the musical phenomenon and the methods for problem solving.It is the 'point-of-view' that decides the 'object' but in return the 'object' requires the correct choice of theory and research tools by the scholars.Research in musicology should follow the principle in which 'the system yields to exploration.'