| The definition of "musical periodicals (or journals)" in this essay is:"Publications appearing at regular or irregular intervals under a same designation edited according to a specific guiding principle, furnished with serial numbers such as volumes and annual or monthly annual volumes. They contain articles about all objects concerned or studied in the musical world composed by many different writers."The Chinese musical journals that appeared before 1937 are historical documents of important value related with the Modern Chinese Music History. Born and developed by following the Chinese new music development of the 20th century, they acted as a platform for introducing musical knowledge, promoting musical ideas and musical works as well as exchanging news of musical tendencies. Published during the first half part of the 20th century when the country was in deficiency of music books and materials, these journals played an important role in the function of propaganda and education, thus held an important position in the mass media in history of Chinese modern music.This paper is a study in Chinese musical journals focused on the period between early 20th century and time prior to the eruption of the Anti-Japanese War (June,1937). Based on historical materialism, it adopts positive and speculative methods to better understand the early stage of the development of Chinese musical journals by arranging and studying the materials and analyzing the underlying motives as well as potential implication, in order to explore the development law of Chinese musical journals. It is a paper of comprehensive study from aspects of historical musicology, sociology, communication, editing, statistics and other research perspectives, pondering over the journals philosophically by investigating this cultural product among its social and cultural environment. The author took three steps-----"medium shot" (giving a discussion of the overall situation of the journals), "close shot" (concentrating in the main contents of the journals) and "long shot" (pointing out historical significance of the journals)-----to "playback" the trial of this period.The paper is studied from two sides:Chapter One, a survey, reviewed the development sequence of the Chinese musical journals during those 30 years, described the editing and publishing situation as well as the main features of the contents, pointed out the regional blank points of musical journals in the country, and summarized the characteristic of the published journals. Chapter Two to Chapter Six discussed the contents of the journals by dividing them into five special fields----history of Chinese ancient music, reality of musical development, music education in China, survey of music and musical aesthetics, transmission of Western music to China----in which the author arranged, analyzed and summarized as showing their evolution and culture significance.In the final conclusion, the paper summarized the change of characteristic, change of evolution in contents and social function of the journals, and tried to give an objective historical fair assessment to these musical journals that appeared during the 30 years of that period.
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