| The ancient Greece music has a fruitful inheritance in the field of music theory, it has got a very far-reaching influence in the development of west music. But in ancient Greece music, which leaves for descendants important and the most meaningful inheritance exactly is the ancient Greece music theory system, that's the reason why the ancient Greece music theory has a especially important effect on the research of the west music history.The main body of this article divides ancient Greece music theory into two major kinds: The first kind is the music thought dominanted by rationalism, it contains the aspect content such as musical interval, musical scale, mainly about the theory of music material and the technological structure of music. Second kind is about the factors involved in the music concept or phenomenon for the clue, it includes the music aesthetics and music educates theory and Helladic music type or form of literature etc.what's more , the two forms are not isolated from each other ,nor do they oppose mutually , on the contrary , the sense of music theory and the perceptual music concept may produce anastomosing in some music phenomenon generally in ancient Greece music culture. The article sets off from the two main categories , discussing the music aesthetics , the ancient Greece music educational theory (including social function , ethics value) , the reason factor and emotion analysing in ancient Greece music drama theory and the ancient Greece music technological theory.In these aspects, the article will go deep into ancient Greece music theory's characteristic property , position and the effect to future generations and the contents are related to various knowledge such as aesthetic ideology , educational theory , ethics value , musical interval , mode. By this much bearing and overall analysis , the article displays the nature of ancient Greece music theory step by step, excavating out the deep connotation and theory of development. Enable us to make a relatively accurate judgement on the development of ancient Greece music theory and accomplishment thereby , and build a more clear and definite acknowledge on how western modern music inherited from ancient Greece music theory and then develops. It is of important guiding significance for us to know the development of the entire western music history courses and to understand the changes and developments of western music theory. |