Thestudyofethnomusicology民族音樂學的研究.pptVIP

Chapter 1： The study of ethnomusicology民族音樂學的研究 Ethnomusicology today is an area of study caught up in a fascination with itself. Although its roots can be traced back some eighty years, and its origin perhaps even earlier, it is only within the past ten or fifteen years that, under the impetus of younger scholars who had brought to it new concepts of theory, method, and application, it has taken a sudden forward surge. The result has been a new awareness of its obligations and internal probing for a real understanding of what it is and does and the purposes toward which it is directed. 今日的民族音樂學是個令人著迷的研究領域。雖然它的根基可追溯到約八十年前，起源甚至更早，不過要到近十到十五年間，在一群年輕學者帶入理論、方法與應用等新概念的刺激下，它方有突然的躍進。這個結果是對於民族音樂學門真正去了解「它是什麼？」、「它怎麼做？」和「研究它的目的」等等它的責任和內在的探索都有了新的認知。 民族音樂學是一門「民族學」(ethnology)+「音樂學」(musicology)的學科 Ethnomusicology carries within itself the seeds of its own division, for it has always been compouned of two distinct parts, the musicological and the ethnological, and perhaps its major problem is the blending of the two in a unique fashion which emphasizes neither but takes into account both. The dual nature of the field is marked by its literature, for where one scholar writes technically upon the structure of music sound as a system in itself, another chooses to treat music as a functioning part of human culture and as an integral part of a wider whole. 民族音樂學總是分成兩個清楚的分支－「音樂學的」與「民族學的」，或許主要的問題在於同時將兩者列入考慮卻又不特別著重其一。這領域雙重的本質從字母拼法便可觀知，一方面是學者在技巧上將音樂的聲響結構記錄下來當做被研究的一個體系，另一個選擇是將音樂視為人類文化中的一個運作部分，並視為人類文化一整體中的一個連結體。 The roots of ethnomusicology are usually traced back to the 1880’s and 1890’s when activity in the field began with studies conducted primarily in Germany and America, and two aspects of ethnomusicology appeared almost at once. On the one hand was a group of scholars who devoted much of their attention to the study of music sound, and who tend to treat sound as an isolate, that is, as a system which operates according to its own internal laws. To this was added the search for