With the development in recent years, China pays more and more attention to the protection and inheritance of traditional culture, music is an important part of culture. At present, under the influence of the musical values of cultural relativity, the Western orchestral music method, in essence, is the technique of timbre distribution and timbre processing, or how to use the orchestra's rich and colorful timbre to reflect the music idea. In a sense, timbre is static and flat, while orchestral music combines different timbres by means of overlapping parts. To solve this problem, this paper discusses it from the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Western orchestral music, musical values and culturology. Analysis from the perspective of theory. By analyzing the problems and reasons in the study of Western orchestral music under the music values of cultural relativism, this paper puts forward some countermeasures to reverse the western orchestral values, recognize the cultural differences and the particularity of national culture proposed. The Music values belong to cultural relativism, which provides a better methodological guidance for scholars who study people's music later.

Le Zhang. Western Orchestral Music under Cultural Relativism Music Values. International Journal of Art Innovation and Development (2022), Vol. 3, Issue 1: 15-27. https://doi.org/10.38007/IJAID.2022.030102.

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