The reform of Chinese Musical Culture and the Formation of Musical Psychology in the Early 20th Century

Abstract

In the history of the origin and development of aesthetic ideas, refl ected in music psychology in China, two historical stages should be highlighted: the fi rst one – from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century, and the second stage – from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, when the Chinese civilisation turned to the assimilation of Western forms of culture, including music. The article presents the view of one of the main researchers of musical psychology of the fi rst third of the 20th century, professor Wang Guangqi, and analyses the signifi cance of his ideas for the formation and development of musical psychology as a new science, as well as their relevance in the current problem fi eld of this area of musicology.