美国民族音乐学家Benjamin Brinner的《理解音乐,制造音乐:爪哇甘美兰以及音乐能力和交互的理论》是一本关于音乐的能力和交互问题研究的著作。作者的主要目的在于解读如甘美兰这般的音乐形式中,人们如何一起“作乐”(music-making)的奥秘,以此探讨人类音乐能力和交互的普遍问题。本文以该著作为对象,就作者书中的概念、内容和研究方法进行述评。 Benjamin Brinner, American ethnomusicologist, “Understanding Music, Making Music: The Sweetmeat of Java and the Theory of Musical Power and Interaction,” is a book on the study of the power and interaction of music. The main purpose of the author is to interpret the mystery of how people together, such as music-making, explore the universal issues of human musical competence and interaction. This article takes the book as an object to review the concept, content and research methods in the book.