提起“后现代音乐”,人们对它的第一反应即是:什么是“后现代”?所谓“后现代”是相对现代而言的。这里大致有三层含义:其一是时间顺序方面的,即所谓现代之“后”的意思;其二是艺术观念方面的,对“现代艺术”而言,后现代艺术具有一种“反现代”的性质;其三是与传统潜在的联系,后现代不是一夜之间从天上掉下来的,而是由蕴含在传统和现代艺术中的“种子”中生发出来的。概括讲,西方从传统音乐到现代主义音乐的发展,部是在有序、有形式、有结构的范围内进行:无论音乐结构的变化,还是作曲技术的革命;无论大小调体系,还是各种各样的人工调式,它们毕竟没有脱离理性与感性统一的轨道。随着从古典主义、 Mention of “postmodern music”, the first response to it is: What is “post-modern”? The so-called “post-modern” is relatively modern terms. There are roughly three meanings here: one is the chronological aspect, the so-called meaning of “post-modernity”; the other is the concept of art. For “modern art”, postmodern art has an “anti-modern” The third is the potential link with the tradition that postmodernism did not fall overnight from heaven but was emanated from the “seeds” embedded in traditional and modern art. To sum up, the development of music in the West from traditional music to modernism is carried out in an orderly, formal and structured manner: no matter the change of music structure or the revolution of compositional art, A variety of artificial mode, they are, after all, from the track of unity of reason and sensibility. With the classicism,