【摘要】 本文探求音乐所具有的各种价值,或评估音乐价值的不同方法,并论述在这些价值或评估价值方法中所体现的相互关系。首先最重要的是音乐的"音乐性"价值,或者说是作为音乐的音乐价值,这是一种"艺术性"价值类别,其自身与美学价值有密切的关系,但不同于美学价值。然而,音乐明显拥有超越其音乐价值的价值。作为一种商品、一种服务或一种技巧,音乐虽然具有经济价值。更普遍地来思考,音乐具有或者可以拥有各种类别的实用价值,其中包括社会价值、娱乐价值、医疗价值、效益价值和自我肯定价值等。在一首乐曲中,其实用价值和工具性价值之间的关系以及其音乐价值和艺术价值之间的关系是复杂的,体现在每首作品中的情况也是不同的。更多还原

【Abstract】 In this article I survey the kinds of value that music can have,or the variety of ways in which music can be valued,and the relationships and correlations among those values or ways of valuing. First and foremost is music’s musical value,or the value of music as music,which is a species of artistic value,itself closely related to but not identical with aesthetic value. Yet music clearly has value beyond its purely musical value. Music obviously has economic value,whether as a commodity,a service,or a skill. More generally,music has,or can have,various sorts of practical value. Notable among the practical values of music would be social value,entertainment value,therapeutic value,functioning-enhancement value,and self-affirmation value. The relation between the practical or instrumental values that a piece of music can possess and its musical or artistic value is complicated,and will vary from case to case.更多还原