摘引源于拉丁语词citare或citatum,意为“被唤起、援引的东西”①,最先只停留在语言学层面上,指从一本书、一位作者那里援引一段文字。在古代修辞学中,摘引常常是一种修辞的风格手段。音乐上对摘引的定义一般是指将一个相对简短的现存音乐片段并入另一部作品中,或是在新作品中采用现存的音乐片段。与文学上的摘引不同的是,由于音乐作品的非语义性,摘引在音乐作品中比在文学当中获得了更广泛的艺术发展空间。音乐作品的摘引大部分不标明出处,作曲家通常假定,听 Excerpts from the Latin word citare or citatum, meaning “evoked and invoked”, first stop at the linguistic level, referring to a passage from one book, one author. In ancient rhetoric, abstraction is often a rhetorical style. Musical definition of excerpts generally refers to the incorporation of a relatively short piece of existing music into another piece, or the use of an existing piece of music in a new piece. Different from literary quotations, because of the non-semantic nature of musical works, the excerpt obtains more extensive space for artistic development in musical works than in literature. Most of the musical works are not quoted, and composers usually assume, listen