浅谈近现代西方打击乐

打击乐和乐器几乎是伴随着原始人类文明同时产生的,在西方得到较早较快的发展,随着人们对打击乐的喜爱,到近现代时发展更为突出。不仅有不少作品全部是用打击乐器来演奏,而且出现了许多业余的和专业的现代打击乐团。文章分析了西方现代打击乐发展状态及其体现的文化趋向,并预测了其对现代新的艺术形式形成的可能性。

On Percussion Music in the Modern West

The percussion, together with percussion instruments, emerged almost as early as the primitive human civilization, and was developed earlier and faster in the West. This was more evident in modern times with its popularity. Quite a few percussion works were totally played with percussion instruments, and there appeared many modern percussion bands either amateur or professional. The paper analyzes the development of percussion music and the cultural trend it represents, and ventures to predict the possibility it may have in helping shape new modern art forms.