The Modern Transformation Of Chinese Musical Historiography

This thesis focuses on the process of forming and developing of Chinese musical historiography in modern times. It consists of three parts:the introduction, the main body and the conclusion.In the introduction part, the author discusses the reasons, the value, the present research achievements, correlative concepts, and the research methods of this subject.The process of Chinese modern musical historiography could be divided into three periods, which are accordingly discussed in the three chapters in the main body of the thesis. Based on plenty of firsthand information, this dissertation analyses and unfolds the modern process of Chinese musical historiography.The chapterâ… is about the traditional sustaining and modern establishment of Chinese musical historiography (1895-1919), which concentrates on the following topics:the influence of traditional musical academic from late Qing dynasty, the Chinese musical historiography research in late Qing dynasty and early 20th century, and Dr. Xiao Youmei's "study of ancient Chinese musical instruments" etc. Then, in the chapterâ…¡, the author expounds the modern transformation and development of Chinese musical historiography (1920-1936), accounting the research approach of Chinese musical historiography based on all kinds of musical periodicals, historical facts about the musical historiography resources of traditional Chinese musical research, the musical historiography monographs which are published one after another, and modern "present" Chinese musical historiography achievement etc. The last chapter is related to the multi-type integration in the Chinese musical historiography (1937-1949), the author discusses the research on the "new musical history" in modern China, the musical historiography resources of traditional Chinese musical research in this period, and the integration process of the old and new musical historiography etc.Based on all the historical materials mentioned in the thesis, the conclusion of this dissertation presents a synthetic discussion around the nuclear point of modern transformation of Chinese musical historiography from three aspects which include transformation of musical history conception, writing model of musical history works and the research methods of musical history. The author holds the opinion that the establishment of the discipline of Chinese musical historiography in modern meaning in the process of modern Chinese musical historiography which went through the dual-variation of "inheriting" and "transforming", is the interact result of the motivity of Chinese ancient musical historiography tradition and modern western culture.