近年,多有人主张用“民族音乐学”为民族音乐理论研究这门学科之名称,当然理由很充分,甚而至于可以说是这门学科发展到了一个新的阶段之标志。那么,笔者为什么不将这一时髦的称谓用于此处呢?这正是本文所述困惑之一。因为仅手边所有资料读而获之心得,便足见这个名称在理论上的诸多歧见,众说纷云所产生的莫衷一是的 In recent years, many people advocate the use of “ethnomusicology” as a national music theory to study the subject name, of course, the reasons are sufficient, even as can be said that this subject has evolved to a new stage of the mark. So, why do not I use this fashionable title here? This is one of the confusion described in this article. The mere fact that all the information on hand has been read gives a good impression of the many theoretical disagreements of this name.