1980年6月在南京艺术学院举行的全国第一届“民族音乐学学术讨论会”,公开地提出了民族音乐学这个名称。但民族音乐学在国外有不同的名称,如比较音乐学,音乐民俗学,音乐人种志学,音乐人类学等等,当然也有称民族音乐学的。对于民族音乐学国内外的解释并不相同,看法也不一致。我个人的理解:民族音乐学即研究民族音乐之学;民族音乐理论是民族音乐学的组成部分。五十年代中期我国有的音乐学院开设的民族音乐理论专业,实质上也就是民族音乐学专 In June 1980 at the Nanjing Arts Institute held the first “National Musicology Symposium”, put forward the name of ethnomusicology. However, ethnomusicology has different names in foreign countries, such as comparative musicology, music folklore, ethnographic ethnography, musical anthropology, etc., of course, also known as ethnomusicology. The interpretation of ethnomusicology is not the same at home and abroad, the views are not the same. My personal understanding is that ethnomusicology is the study of ethnomusicology and ethnomusicology is an integral part of ethnomusicology. In the mid-1950s, some music conservatories in our country opened the professional theory of folk music, which is essentially the national music academy