风格史与叙事史的辩护--评列昂·普兰廷加《浪漫音乐:19世纪欧洲音乐风格史》

Defence for Style History and Narrative History – A Comment on Leon Plantingal's Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style of Nineteenth-Century Europe

列昂·普兰廷加的《浪漫音乐》是一部19世纪西方音乐断代史力作,文章从音乐历史哲学的角度对此书的脉络构架、视角方法、著述风格进行评述。作者认为,此书总体显示出三方面的良好平衡:聚焦与发散的平衡(以形式风格主线牵引历史全景扫描)、客观与主观的平衡(以中立性口吻承载个性化判断)、历史与审美的平衡(以语境脉络勾勒艺术洞见)。并由此证明风格史与叙事史这两种传统的治史思路和撰史方式在当今的学术生态中依然拥有存在的必要性和强大的生命力。

From the perspective of music's historical philosophy,the author makes comments on the book's structure,methodology and writing style. The three aspects keep a balance among themselves,which proves that the two traditional ideas and ways in historiography – style and narration- still hold true with necessity for existence and with a strong vitality as well.