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Introduction to Traditional Chinese Music takes dialectical materialism and historical materialism as the guiding ideology of methodology and emphasizes the principle of combining theory and practice. It is a theoretical textbook for the specialized basic courses of music colleges and universities, and its content has been appropriately selected and adjusted, and it is also applicable to the compulsory music courses of ordinary universities and the teaching of teacher training colleges and universities. The specific teaching method of this course is to enable students to understand the development of Chinese traditional music culture, the main categories of Chinese traditional music culture and the representative musical varieties and excellent repertoire in each category, on the basis of perceptual grasp, to be able to theoretically do the general summary and generalization, and to master the main characteristics of its artistic style.

Author Yuan Jingfang, female, born on February 22, 1936, Han nationality, Yueyang County, Hunan Province, musicologist, professor, doctoral tutor. She was once the head of the Department of Musicology at the Central Conservatory of Music. Prof. Yuan has devoted herself to the study of traditional Chinese instrumental music and music theory. In the late 1980s, he began to get involved in the organization and research of Buddhist and Taoist music.