在过去一百年间,世界音乐史上最重要的现象是西方音乐与西方音乐思想对非西方音乐的强力的影响。毫无疑问,这个现象的另一个重要方面就是世界文化对此作出的强烈反映。以便对自己的音乐传统加以保存或发展、或修饰,甚至加以扬弃。西方音乐的到来经常被认为是世界不同种类音乐的丧钟敲起的时候。实践表明,部分地由于西方音乐文化的有力影响而产生的后果,二十世纪的世界音乐从来也没有象现在这样丰富多彩。瓦·维奥拉(W.Wiora)在他的“音乐的四个时代”这本书中谈到了过去一百年间所发生的巨大变化。他的这本书为我们更好地理解整个音乐史提供了一个严密的理论构架。维奥拉只把第一个和第四个时代看作是一个统一的音乐世界。在第一个时代,他提出世界同质论,任何地方的音乐或多或少是以相同的方式起源的。所有文化的早期音乐史都大致相同。在 In the past one hundred years, the most important phenomenon in the history of world music was the powerful influence of western music and western music on non-Western music. There is no doubt that another important aspect of this phenomenon is the strong reaction of the world’s culture to this. In order to preserve or develop, modify, or even subdue their musical traditions. The arrival of Western music is often regarded as the time of the death knell of different kinds of music in the world. Practice shows that the world music of the twentieth century has never been as colorful as it is now, partly because of the consequences of the powerful influence of Western music culture. In his book The Four Era of Music, W. Waora talks about the tremendous changes that have taken place over the past hundred years. His book provides a rigorous theoretical framework for our better understanding of the entire history of music. Viola only sees the first and fourth times as a unified music world. In the first era, he proposed the theory of world homogeneity, where music originated in the same way more or less. The history of early music in all cultures is about the same. in