在人类文化进化过程中,音乐被看成了文化符号的体系,在这样的体系中,各种形式被赋予比喻义,形成一种极为复杂的符号意义。音乐文化符号被作为符号学意义上的符号来理解和研究,它除了自身就是一种可被感知的形式外,还可在符号使用者的思想中表达其他的东西。从符号学角度去阐释音乐文化,无疑是音乐学及音乐人类学理论研究方法上的重大突破。
In the evolution course of human culture, music is considered to be a system of culture symbol. In this system, every form of symbols that endowed with analogical meaning, forms a very complicated symbol meaning. The culture symbols of music understood and researched as symbol of semiotics, can be felt itself but express something else as the symbol users like. It is a great breakthrough in studying the music and the theory of musicology by explaining music culture from the angle of semiotics.