【2017年整理】研究与生英语阅读教程Unit12.ppt

Unit 12;Contents ;Introduction;Aaron Copland (亚伦·柯普兰) ;;Chamber music;;Text analysis;Text Structure;;;Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): French court and operatic composer who once controlled court music and whose style of writing was widely imitated throughout Europe. He was known to be shrewd and unscrupulous, a man of insatiable ambition; his rise from violinist in Louis XIV’s court band was meteoric and was accomplished by brazen and merciless intrigue.;;Artistic achievements;Richard Wagner (1813-1883): leading German composer of the late 19th century who was not simply a composer but a musical dramatist whose state works have a far-reaching significance; He lived wildly. In spite of his princely salary, he had to flee from Vienna to avoid imprisonment for debt because he had the inveterate habits of borrowing and living on others. ;;Point 4;;Point 5;Point 6;Point 7;Point 8;Point 9;It’s important to find what music form works best for your situation. Please write an essay of 300 words on the music form that strikes you most and focus on its characteristics or your feelings derived from it. ;According to the text, what are the three planes on which we listen to music? Does the value of music have much to do with its sensuous appeal? Why or why not? What does the author think about the meaning of music? What is the popular idea of music’s meaning stimulated by musical commentator? ;;(1) the sensuous plane, (2) the expressive plane, (3) the sheerly musical plane ;Yes. It does. It is on the sensuous plane that we hear music without thinking, without considering it in any way. One turns on the radio while doing something else and absent-mindedly bathes in the sound. A kind of brainless but attractive state of mind is engendered by the mere sound appeal of the music. ;It is difficult enough to say precisely what it is that a piece of music means. My own belief is that all music has an expressive power, some more and some less, but that all music has a certain