抄録
It seems that musical esthetics in our time is remarkably inefficient. It dose not have any kind of influence upon practical musicians. And it seems that its all tasks are supplanded by modern positive musicology. Such retreat of musical esthetics is attributable to the uncorrect subject and method of the automatic musical estheteics. Since E. Hanslick, the automatic musical esthetics has locked the essence of music in the inner mental world. But the effect of music, which leads us into such inner world, is not music itself. Music is open to the social life. The modern musical esthetics must speculate above all these social aspects of music. In such way musical esthetics would recover its prestige, and perform its mission.
