On The Development Historical Of Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is a newly-rising discipline, whose establishment and development benefited from the influence of many humanistic thoughts and other disciplines. With its development, the research field and methodology has changed a lot. By combing the literature of this field, this paper aims at explore the transformation and its causes of theoretical patterns in the course of its development.The paper consists of 5 parts: the Introduction introduces the intention and the meaning of the selection of this topic.Chapter 1 combs the course in which comparative musicology evolved into Ethnomusicology, involving the origin and development of Comparative Musicology—the preexistence of Ethnomusicology and the formation of Ethnomusicology.Chapter 2 introduces the development of Ethnomusicology from 1950s to 1980s, including the establishment of the discipline, the coexistence of two research positions, the influence of linguistics, the resurvey of historical research and the rising of world music.Chapter 3 introduces the new development trend of ethnomusicology in the 1990s,and the last part is the conclusion of the whole paper.