Abstract: What is the Ethnomusicology place in the music field? Does that comprehends the music essence possessed the function of cognition more profound than the other fields of learning? Is the aim of research musical morphology ultimate explanation? Based on the writer own relative research and teaching experience, the papers showed the brand new consideration of these issues and made the explication quite different from the popular discourse nowadays.

Key Words: Ethnomusicology, knowledge attribute, cultural types, method, aim