自20世纪八九十年代以来,在英美分析哲学界,“音乐理解”(musical understanding)一直是备受瞩目的课题。学者们不惜笔墨,以抽象思辨方式反复谈论着音乐理解的本质、类型、对象等话题,并将其与音乐的意义、形式、内容等音乐美学基本问题贯通起来,取得了丰硕的成果。关于“音乐理解的本质”问题,具有代表性的观点出自英国哲学家罗杰·斯克鲁顿(Roger Scruton)之手。早在80年代初,他 Since the 1980s and 1990s, the “musical understanding” of the Anglo-American analytical philosophies has been a subject of great interest. Scholars have repeatedly pondered on the nature, type and object of music comprehension through abstract thinking, penetrating it with the basic issues of musical aesthetics such as the meaning, form and content of music and have achieved fruitful results. A representative point of view on the “nature of music comprehension” came from the English philosopher Roger Scruton. As early as the early 1980s, he