Eternal Echo

As a special spiritual phenomenon, musical art belongs to human,exists for human, it is component accompanying the history of human, itoccupys important position in the development of human culture. A vasthistory of human culture is a history that reflects human mind, as oneof the part of human culture's history, western music shows stronghumanity.Western music is a very important part in the culture of human, Withother non—western music ,it constucts magnificent musical art. Viewingthe development of western music, we can find,humanity goes through thewhole history, whether in scared music or in secular music. Under theimpetus of humanity, western composers wrote many excellent works.What historians want to know is not only obvious facts, but also thedeep reason, idea and tendency that lead to the obvious facts. So, if wewant to understand western music truely, we should to comprehend exteriorobjective facts, and furthermore, we should to grasp the meaning and valuebehind the objective facts. In this paper, the author goes deep into thespirit of western music, to excavate humanity and value behind theobjective facts of western music.