2011年11月16日至17日,深秋细雨飘洒,一次有意义的音乐学术活动在芝加哥大学北京中心隆重举行:2011音乐理论比较研究国际论坛暨《剑桥西方音乐理论发展史》(Cambridge History of Western Music Theory,下文简称《剑桥史》)中文版首发式。《剑桥史》原书于2002年面世,被认为是一部“迄今为止用英文写作的篇幅最大、涉及内容最广泛的有关音乐理论发展史的著作”[1],该书对从古希腊至今丰富音乐理论进行实证性与思考性的梳理及阐述,它以内容 From November 16 to November 17, 2011, a meaningful music academic was held at the University of Chicago’s Beijing Center during the late autumn: the 2011 International Symposium on Music Theory and the Cambridge History of Cambridge Western Music Theory, hereinafter referred to as “Cambridge History”) Chinese version of the first episode. The original Cambridge History was published in 2002 and is considered to be “a book that has so far been written in English and covers the most extensive history of the development of musical theory,” [1] Greece has so far enriched the theory of music for the carding and elaboration and elaboration, which content