Module4教材背景链接.pptVIP

Module 4　Music教材背景链接 名言佳句 It should be music to the people’s spirit of the outbreak sparks.—Ludwig van Beethoven 音乐应当使人的精神爆发出火花。 ——路德维希·凡·贝多芬(德国音乐家) Life is like music.It must be composed by ear，feeling and instinct，not by rule. —Samuel Butler，British writer 人生如一首乐曲，要用乐感，感情和直觉去谱写，不能只按乐律行事。 ——英国作家　塞缪尔·巴特勒 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.—Jules Combarieu 音乐是用声音思维的艺术。 ——孔巴略·J 类文欣赏 　Categories of Music Music is often divided into several categories or groups.Some of the categories are：classical music，traditional music， rock music，and jazz music.The first kind，classical，refers to orchestra music(管弦乐) that originated in Europe a few hundred years ago.Most of the original classical music was composed， or written in Italy，Germany，Austria，or Russia.Classical music is usually played by a variety of string and wind instruments. The second type of music is traditional music.It comes from a particular culture.Every culture has its own special forms of traditional music.For example，“blue” music is one kind of traditional music in the United States and “enka” music is one kind of traditional music in Japan.Each traditional music has its own special instruments. Another kind of music is rock music.It is generally a loud kind of music，played with a strong beat.Rock musicians often use electric instruments.Rock music probably began in Europe about 30 or 40 years ago.It became very popular especially among young people during the 1960s and 1970s. The fourth kind of music is jazz.Jazz probably comes from Africa.Jazz has a different kind of rhythm(节奏) from other kinds of music.A variety of musical instruments are used to play this kind of music especially wind instruments. Of course，there are other categories of music.In addition，many kinds of music are combinations of classical and traditional，or classical and jazz，or rock and jazz，and so on. Read the passage above，and tell the following statements true(T) or false (F)． 1．“Blue” music originated from America.(　　) 2．Every