胡德在他的《民族音乐学者》一书中的第七章详细地介绍了在民族音乐学研究中以科学的方法和实验室工作的手段对音乐及其文化背景所进行研究的实践原理和和具体步骤。本章以逐层渐进的方式,并用民族音乐学研究的实际案例,从记述、分析、综合、以及历史材料资源和比较评价等方面对研究方法进行了全面的论述。 Hood, in his book Ethnomusicologist, gives a detailed account of the practical principles of researching music and its cultural background by means of scientific methods and laboratory work in the study of ethnomusicology And concrete steps. In this chapter, the research methods are comprehensively expounded from the aspects of description, analysis, synthesis, historical material resources and comparative evaluation with the gradual and gradual approach and the practical case studies of ethnomusicology.