Vortex of Concepts: A Collection of Research on Chinese Musicology

Author: Wang Ningyi
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book provides a robust defense of the "concept" as a fundamental tool of theoretical thinking from the perspective of Marxist epistemology and methodology. It demonstrates the author's profound philosophical and logical expertise. At the symposium on music theory for middle-aged and young scholars held in Xingcheng in 1986, he offered a theoretical analysis of the principle of "theoretical connection with practice" from three aspects: "origin and destination," "connection and difference," and "straight line and curve." This analysis not only upheld the correct principles of Marxism but also pointed out the deviations that had occurred in its implementation, thereby contributing to the unification of understanding on this issue, which was a subject of heated debate at the time.