In China’s musical circles, there are quite a number of composers who concurrentlycarry out theoretical research and musicologists who also compose melodies. But only a few musicians have scored substantial achievements in both composition and research, produced significant works and made unique contributiors. Professor Li Yinghai is one of them. A distinct feature in his academic career is that almost at the beginning of his musical work, he set the “academic coordinates” of his composition and theoretical research on national music and has been keeping to it all his life. At the third In China’s musical circles, there are quite a number of composers who concurrentlycarry out theoretical research and musicologists who also compose melodies. But only a few musicians have scored substantial achievements in both composition and research, produced significant works and made unique contributiors. Professor Li Yinghai is one of them. A distinct feature in his academic career is that almost at the beginning of his musical work, he set the “academic coordinates” of his composition and theoretical research on national music and has been keeping to it all his life At the third