人类生灭有序,文化却变衍无常。以往音乐学研究大概是受音乐文化载体生灭过程的影响,总是以时间为主线展开论说,如传统音乐的四大类是如何形成和发展的等等。这种方法便于一个学科类型的条理化,符合正常的思维方式,是无可厚非的,但它不是唯一的途径。以时间为主线的研究是一种线性的研究,一维的研究,不可能涵盖人类的全部文化。因为某一音乐文化的形成、演变过程不完全是按照时间排序的,时间仅表现了音乐文化的 Human beings are orderly, but culture is not perfect. In the past, the study of musicology was influenced by the process of birth and death of the musical culture carrier, and the theory of time was the main line. For example, the four major categories of traditional music were formed and developed. It is understandable that such an approach facilitates the rationalization of a discipline type and its normal way of thinking, but it is not the only way. Time-centered research is a linear study, one-dimensional research, it is impossible to cover all of human culture. Because of the formation of a musical culture, the evolutionary process is not entirely in accordance with the sort of time, time is only manifested in the music culture