2019年英语新同步译林选修八（江苏专用）讲义：Unit 2 Section Ⅴ Project.docVIP

Section_ⅤProject [原文呈现] From the blues① to pop Early jazz Today I will take a brief look at how Western music progressed② from the blues to pop. Modern pop music has its roots③ in the folk songs of black Americans ④held in slavery⑤. During the late part of the 19th century, black musicians used these folk songs to create a kind of music called the blues, because it had a tendency⑥ to be very sad. While the blues was popular⑦， as a musical format⑧ it lacked⑨ variety and was too sad and slow to⑩ dance to?. Thus, from the blues, there sprung up? a faster, livelier kind of music called jazz. Louis Armstrong, a black trumpet? player and singer, was one of the fathers of jazz. Unlike most musicians who played the music as it was written, he would change the music as he was playing it to reflect his feelings at the time. Other musicians began to copy his style and the liberty? he brought to his music?. The ability to adapt the music while it is being played? is one of the major characteristics of jazz. [读文清障] ①blues/blu?z/n.布鲁斯音乐，蓝调 ②progress v．进展，进步，发展 ③root/ru?t/n.起源，起因；根，根茎 have its roots in 起源于 ④过去分词短语held in slavery作后置定语，修饰black Americans。 ⑤slavery/sleIv?rI/n.奴隶身份；奴隶制 ⑥tendency/tend?nsI/n.倾向，偏好；趋势，趋向 have a tendency to do sth. 有做某事的趋势 ⑦While the blues ...是while引导的让步状语从句。 ⑧format/f??m?t/n.形式；格式；版式 ⑨lack v．缺少，缺乏 ⑩too ... to ... 太……而不能…… ?dance to 伴着……跳舞(to用作介词) ?spring up 突然兴起，迅速出现 ?trumpet/tr?mpIt/n.小号；喇叭 ?liberty/lIb?tI/n.自由 ?he brought to his music 是一个定语从句，修饰liberty，在从句中作宾语的关系代词which/that 省略了。 ?while 引导时间状语从句，while 表示“正当……时候”。 从蓝调音乐到流行乐 早期爵士乐 今天我将简要地回顾一下西方音乐是如何从蓝调音乐发展到流行乐的。现代流行音乐起源于奴隶制时期美国黑人的民歌。在19世纪晚期，黑人音乐家们根据这些民歌创造了一种被称作蓝调音乐(又译布鲁斯)的音乐形式，因为这种音乐有忧伤的趋势。尽管蓝调音乐非常受欢迎，但作为一种音乐形式，它缺少变化，而且太伤感、节奏太慢，不适合跳舞时伴奏。于是，从蓝调音乐中发展出一种节奏更轻快、更活泼的音乐形式，叫作爵士乐。 黑人小号手及歌手路易斯·阿姆斯特朗是爵士乐的创始人之一。与其他大部分按照写好的乐谱演奏的音乐家不同，他会在演奏时即兴改变原来的曲子，以反映他演奏时的心情。其他的乐手开始模仿他的风格以及他赋予音乐的自由。在演奏时可以即兴改编音乐成为爵士乐的主要特征之一。 From R B to rock and roll? From the early 1930s to the early 1950s, traditional jazz went into a gradual? d