After a general introduction to the history of Chinese music, some students in the class either have some understanding of this aspect, listening to the introduction of Mr. Li Mubai, with a clear expression, and some of them also have a very rewarding expression, while Zhao Mu in the audience is because of his lack of basic knowledge, he knows a little about the different dynasties of China, and he also has some understanding of the world-famous Tang and Song poems and songs, but when these things are combined with the development of Chinese music, Zhao Mu is a little at a loss, not to mention the music development of the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties during the Yellow Emperor period, for what corresponding law is even more dazed, which makes Zhao Mu very helpless, fortunately, although Mr. Li Mubai talks about popular science very boring things, but under his humorous and humorous way of speaking, people are very interested in listening to it all the time, and Zhao Mu listened carefully to Mr. Li Mubai's clear lecture, Zhao Mu still understands most of the content of Mr. Li Mubai, and for more professional things, it takes other time Zhao Mu to study slowly.

After talking about the history of Chinese music, after taking a sip of water, Mr. Li Mubai continued with great interest: "I have just talked about the history of Chinese music, if you don't understand or are interested in understanding, you can go to the school library after class to find the corresponding reference books to study, and then I will tell you about the history of Western music." ”

"Generally speaking, when it comes to the history of music development in the West, it should include Asia, Africa, and Latin America, but so far, the so-called music history is mainly only in Europe, and there is little involvement in other regions. Therefore, it is generally believed that modern scientific culture began to develop in Europe, especially in music, and when it comes to music in the world, works from Bach to Debussy still occupy a very important position. Therefore, in order to know the general knowledge of world music culture, one must first start from this aspect. ”

"Western music is generally divided into ancient Greece, ancient Roman music period, medieval music period, Renaissance music period, Baroque music period, WYN classical music period, Romantic music period, late Romantic music period, Impressionist music period, modern music development period, American music overview period, popular music development period, and contemporary music period. ”

Among them, the ancient Greek and Roman music periods are divided into ancient Greek music, ancient Roman music, Christian music, and Byzantine music, while the medieval music period is divided into religious music and secular music, and the Renaissance music period is divided into French music, Italian music, German music, and Dutch music. ”

"And now there is a clear historical record that the origin of Western music history is the Baroque music period, during which there was the production of opera and the reform of opera, and during this period there was a person who has an extraordinary place in the history of Western music, and he is Johann Sebastian Bach, who was a German composer in the Baroque period, an outstanding organist, violin, and harpsichord player. Bach is widely regarded as one of the most important composers in the history of music, and is revered as the "father of Western 'modern music'" and one of the most important figures in the history of Western culture. Bach's contribution throughout his life was to bring together the musical styles of the different peoples of Western Europe, combining the best of Italian, French and German traditional music".

"After the Baroque period, the WYN Classical School was the most famous period, which produced Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, who are now considered the triumvirate of Western classical composers, and the influence of these three has been throughout the history of Western music."

Among them, Haydn is the founder of the WYN classical music school, the father of symphony, he is the first representative of the WYN classical music school, and he is also the founder of instrumental music, and a style similar to the Baroque appeared in his later works. Along with Mozart and Beethoven, he was one of the outstanding representatives of the WYN School of Classical Music, and was affectionately known as "Daddy Haydn".

Mozart, known as the "musical prodigy" and the triumvirate of classical music, is undoubtedly a genius in the history of music, although his life was only a short time in his thirties, and then died for reasons that have become a mystery to this day, but he left more than 600 works in his lifetime. Mozart's important works include all the musical genres of the time, which have been difficult for countless musicians to surpass, and many of his works have been regarded by countless musicians as natural sounds."

As the pioneer of German art song creation, Beethoven has the lofty title of "Music Saint" in the history of music, he is not only the master of the classical style, but also the pioneer of the romantic style. As he himself said, "Music should make the human spirit burst into flames", Beethoven's works are known for being heroic, dramatic, and intellectual. Beethoven had a rough life, and after losing his most important hearing as a musician, he always persevered and never compromised. and created the immortal masterpiece "Ninth Symphony".

After classical music is the era of Romantic music, the starting point of Romantic music is the ideas of the European "Age of Enlightenment" and the liberal democratic ideas of the French Revolution, Beethoven's late works have become the forerunner of the early Romanticism, the period of Romantic music is an important period in the history of music, which produced many great musicians who have influenced to this day, and also produced a large number of musical forms with a wide range of genres. The Romantic period can be divided into early, early, middle, late, and late periods. Among them, the early representatives include Beethoven, the "saint of music", who has a great influence in the history of music, Schubert, the "king of songs" who composed more than 600 beautiful songs in his short artistic career, and Liszt, who is known as the "king of the piano" and Chopin, who is known as the "romantic piano poet", and the "father of waltzes" Johann Strauss the Elder and "the king of waltzes" Johann Strauss the Younger, and in the later period, there are "Russian music masters" and "melodic masters" Tchaikovsky and others, and there were also many well-known musicians in the late period".

After the period of Romantic music, there are several music genres represented by impression music, which realized the transition from the late period of romantic music to modern music, and impression music was produced from the late period of romantic music and the national music genre at that time, compared with the rigor of classical music and the focus of romantic music on the realization of emotions and the play of passion, impressionist music is more to give people a hazy atmosphere with pictures, and the importance of impressionist music is to realize the transformation of musical art, and realize the transition from romantic music to modern music。 Among them, the representative of the Impressionist music period is the Frenchman Debussy, who is also the originator of 'Impressionism' music. ”