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Abstract:: The music hermeneutics has developed for nearly two hundred years. It is a natural result when thewestern music research arrived at a certain stage，and also forms an effective complement to the positivism inmusic studies. Although there have been many studies on music hermeneutics，the reflection on its disciplinarynature from the academic perspective is still inadequate. From the three dimensions including reason，pursuitand course，the paper intends to analyze the reason why music hermeneutics arose，reveal its explorationof meaning which is different from the fact finding of the positivism and describe its historical developmentfrom spontaneous to conscious. Finally，the paper makes a critical reflection on the music hermeneutics，andidentifies the reasonable elements it contains for western music research.