The history of Western music is not easy to pass in the postgraduate entrance examination, but the history of Chinese new modern music is easy to pass. According to the query of relevant public information, the postgraduate entrance examination for Western music history requires tests on English, politics, musical form analysis, and Chinese and foreign music history. It explains the development process of Western music based on the background of cultural history and art history, and outlines the history of Western music from ancient Greece, Various music and art styles from the Roman era to the 20th century, introducing various music genres and their representative figures and representative works. The history of new modern music in China mainly examines the new development of traditional Chinese music in modern times, the introduction and development of Western music culture, the emergence, development, historical significance and representative figures of school music (Shen Xingong, Li Shutong, Zeng Zhidin), 20th century-20th century The development of new music societies, ordinary school music education and professional music education in my country in the 1940s, the workers' and peasants' singing movement and workers' and peasants' revolutionary songs, the music creation in the 1920s and 1930s (Xiao Youmei, Huang Zi, Zhao Yuanren, Li Jinhui, etc.), Liu Tianhua's Music creation and his thoughts on improving Chinese music, the left-wing music movement and the creations of anti-Japanese and national salvation composers (Ren Guang, Lu Ji, Zhang Shu, Mai Xin, etc.), Nie Er's life and his music creation, Wang Guangqi and Qingzhu's music theory and Its musical thoughts, the anti-Japanese music movement and creation under the new situation, the music creation of Xian Xinghai and He Luting, the development of Chinese music culture and Chinese music creation before and after the Anti-Japanese War, the music creation of the enemy-occupied areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas in the 1940s (Ma Sicong, Jiang Wen Ye, Tan Xiaolin).