一、关于20世纪宗教新音乐宗教新音乐不仅是音乐研究的重要对象,还因其充分体现了启蒙现代性与文化现代性的紧张关系,并作为审美现代性实现的有力途径,而成为美学和文化研究关注的对象。假如说20世纪的西方文化是大破大立、探索创新、离经叛道而五彩纷呈的文化,应该不是夸张。西方文化在20世纪里逐渐走向个性与多元化,它怀抱中的宗教音乐理所当然地从这一母体吸收了充分的营养,从音乐形式到所蕴含的时代精神都发生了令人惊异的变化。从历史上看,西方宗教音乐的发展形态很像一棵树,它是在变化又连续的环境里生长起 I. About New Music in the Twentieth Century Religious new music is not only an important object of music study, but also reflects the tension between enlightenment modernity and cultural modernity as well as a powerful way to realize aesthetic modernity, The object of cultural studies. It should not be an exaggeration to say that the twentieth-century Western culture was overwhelming, exploring innovation, departing from other people’s ways, and colorful. In the 20th century, Western culture gradually became individualized and pluralistic, and religious music in its embrace naturally absorbed the full nutrition from this parent body. All of the amazing changes took place from the musical form to the embodied spirit of the times. Historically, western religious music has evolved much like a tree, growing in a changing and continuous environment