西方音乐是文化舶来品,尽管有许多前辈总结的教学经验和成果,有现成音像制品可以辅助教学,但这些都是间接的。只有结合创作背景进行教学,才能让学生们对作曲家和作品有一个文化和历史上的宏观了解,从而对作品的思想内涵有更好的把握,目前,各音乐学院在教学中依据的基本都是书面材料,而这些书面材料,因为治学和素材来源的限制,矛盾和谬误之处在所难免。笔者在意大利求学半年,经参观教堂等文化遗址,并阅读文化和艺术史等相关书籍,尤其是德国学者斯宾格勒的一句名言:西方文化是人与神对应的产物,使笔者茅塞顿开,在此,把音乐理解提升到以西方文化母题两个的其中一个——关于结构观念的高度做一试论,论据部分采用横向比较、描述和分析,借以希望对未来音乐教学有所帮助。 Western music is a cultural product, and though there are many predecessors’ teaching experiences and achievements, there are ready-made audiovisual products that can assist in teaching, but these are indirect. Only by combining creative background teaching can students have a cultural and historical macroscopic understanding of the composers and works so as to have a better grasp of the ideological connotation of the works. At present, all the basic Is a written material, and these written materials, because of the limitations of scholarship and material sources, contradictions and fallacies are inevitable. I studied in Italy for six months, after visiting the cultural sites such as churches and reading books on culture and art history, especially the famous German scholar Spengler’s famous saying that Western culture is the product of the correspondence between man and God, As a result, the understanding of music has been elevated to one of two topics that are based on Western culture - a review on the heights of structural concepts. Some of the arguments are horizontally compared, described and analyzed in the hope that they will be helpful to future music teaching.