中西音乐由于文化背景的迥异,导致为死亡主题所创作的音乐作品的态度、音乐创作的数量、对死亡体裁作品的认知程度,都存在很大的差异。文章通过对西方文化中的生死观中“二元对立不避死亡”价值观念与中国文化中的“舍生取义”的价值观念的比较,试述了中西不同死亡意象对音乐作品创作所产生的差异。 Because of the differences in cultural backgrounds, Chinese and Western music make a big difference in the attitude of the musical works created for the theme of death, the number of musical compositions, and the cognitive level of the works of the genre of death. Through the comparison of the values ​​in the concept of life and death in Western culture, “duality does not evade death” and the value of “giving birth to justice” in Chinese culture, this article attempts to discuss the differences between the Chinese and Western images of death on the creation of musical works Differences produced.