A Study On The Theorization Of Traditional Chinese Music Theory

In order to change the dominance of western music theory in china, some theorists in1980sadvocated that Chinese music theory should be formulated, and ever since more and more theorists devotedthemselves to relevant researches and now a bunch of books took place. therefore a review of existingtraditional Chinese music theory, a summarization of experiences, approach of music theory afterwardswould be very necessary. This essay takes subject on traditional music theory which divided into threechapters.chapter one: this chapter studies the background of traditional music theory. traditional music theorydoesn’t happen at random. On one hand the modern research on traditional music theory has accumulated alot and has layed a solid foundation, on the other hand national music values influences the developing oftraditional music theory, and therefore Huang Xiang-peng brought forth formally that we should have ourtraditional music theory fundamentals.Chapter two: this chapter is a study of the research of traditional music theory, which is based on thebooks of Chen Ying-shi and Yang Shan-wu and so on. We study their research and the impact on others,take a deep insight into their studies.Chapter three: this chapter is a study on some issues in traditional music theory. Particularly it studiesthe relations between culture research and music research, traditional music theory’s discipline attributes,the general and individual characteristic of Chinese and western music theory, and finally indicates thattraditional music theory should solve some issues and how.The contemporary music theory based on chinese traditional music theory influences the generaltheorization of Chinese traditional music theory and also the development of Chinese music. This essaytries to make a progress to the development of traditional music theory.