Wang Guangqi is the first theorist in the history of modern music in China who made efforts to explore musicology. His important contributions are as follows: He is a pioneer of comparative musicology in China, discussing China music and oriental music, and making a comparative study of eastern and western music. He was praised as "the first person in oriental comparative musicology" by Shoji Shigeo.

Under the influence of the methodology of comparative musicology, a number of research results have been produced in the comparative direction of eastern and western music laws.

The most important thing is to refer to Wang Guangqi's research on eastern and western music systems and oriental folk music. He made a comparative study of different legal systems in medieval and modern China, countries bordering Asia and Africa in Europe, Greece and Europe by using the calculation method of the average tone number created by Ueno Tagabe.

Explain China's ancient law and temperament calculation with modern methods. Clarify the fact that China used the tube to set the tune and the chord length to calculate the tune, and explain and introduce the length of China Huang Zhong and the calculation method of the tube with the research methods abroad at that time, which created a precedent for China's legal research to face the world.

Wang Guangqi is the first theorist in the history of modern music in China who made great efforts to explore musicology. His major works are Music History of China, Research on the Music System of the East and the West, and Oriental Folk Music. Through these works, he systematically introduced the European music culture and theory to the people of China for the first time, and called on people to pay attention to sorting out and studying China traditional music by scientific methods.

Wang Guangqi's Resume and Representative Works

Wang Guangqi, 1892- 1936, a musician and social activist, whose real name is Runni and pen name is Jade, is a dragon, and he is from Wenjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan. 1920 went to Germany to study political economy, 1923 turned to music. 1927 musicology major, University of Berlin. 1934 received his doctorate from Bonn University with the article "On China Classical Opera".

The author's research is the first time in oriental folk music. The author's representative works include Oriental Folk Music, European Music Evolution Theory and On China Classical Opera.