本书是法国学者文学与音乐比较研究有影响的早期专著,也是后来的法国比较音乐学和音乐学研究者不可不读和经常引用的一部论著。本书最早出版于1955年,但在法国多次再版,中译本就是根据1984年版译的。作者雷翁·吉沙尔的初衷在他的《序》里讲得很清楚:“我感到:文学史家并不总是 This book is an early monograph influential in the comparative study of French scholars and music, and is also a must-read and frequently quoted book by later French comparative musicology and musicology researchers. The book was first published in 1955, but repeatedly reprinted in France, the Chinese version is based on the 1984 version of the translation. The original intention of the author Leion Jisal makes it clear in his Preface: "I feel that literary historians are not always