《中国古代乐论选辑》(文化部文学艺术研究院音乐研究所编,人民音乐出版社出版)中辑录了张炎《词源》中的《讴曲旨要》,本刊编者要我把它译注出来,以飨读者。一般的译注,本来并不十分难,但这一篇文字却有点难办,原因是里面有些话不是一般的古汉语,似乎是宋元时期的口语,有些甚至是当时词曲方 “Selected Works of Ancient Chinese Music Theory” (Ministry of Culture and Literature Research Institute of Music compiled by the People’s Music Publishing House) recorded Zhang Yan “Etymology” in the “purpose of the song”, the editor of this issue want me to put it Annotation out to readers. The general translation of Annotation, was not very difficult, but this one is a bit difficult to write the text, because some of the words which are not the ancient Chinese, it seems that the Song and Yuan Dynasties spoken, and some even when the lyrics