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Unit 2　The universal language 【美文阅读】　 What is music? 音乐，是人们生活中不可缺少的一部分。什么是音乐？你喜欢什么样的音乐？ Suppose you hit a wooden table with your hand. It makes a sound. Now suppose you hit a ball. It makes a sound. The second sound is called a tone(乐音). A tone is a single musical sound. Music is the art of organizing tones into meaningful patterns of sound. We might call it the language of tones. Sometimes the language of music speaks to us in tones sounding after one another in melody(旋律). Or the tones could be sounding together in harmony(协调)． When tones hit with one another, it is not in harmony. But this