作为山歌体裁之代表的花儿是一种主要流行于甘肃、青海、宁夏、新疆等四省区部分地区的口头文学艺术形式,它的演唱性和音乐性尤为民族音乐学者所广泛关注。在20世纪中后期的花儿音乐学研究可以粗分出两类音乐学的文本,一类是花儿音乐的本体分析,一类是花儿音乐的文化阐释。而这两种分类也恰恰代表了当时中国民歌研究乃至整个民族音乐学学术路径的现状,是两种不同治学理念下所形成的不同文本风格。在对这些研究 Flowers, as representative of folk genres, is a form of oral literature and art which is mainly popular in some areas of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang provinces. Its singing and musical features are especially concerned by ethnic music scholars. In the mid and late 20th century, the study of flower music can be roughly divided into two kinds of texts of musicology, one is the ontology analysis of flower music and the other is the cultural interpretation of flower music. These two categories also represent the current status of Chinese folk song studies and even the whole academic path of ethnomusicology. They are different text styles formed under two different concepts of scholarship. In these studies