3. Read and learn the types of music.

1. CLASSICAL MUSIC. There is a tendency to use classical music with particular reference to the music with particular reference to the music of the past, up to and including the 19^th century. However, the term also includes music being written now, and we may speak of modern classical music. Classical here refers to genre, not period.

2. LIGHT CLASSICAL MUSIC is used of short classical works which are easy to listen to either because the composer’s aim was simply to entertain.

3. SERIOUS MUSIC. It sometimes used as a synonym of classical music. Serious music is a wider concept than classical music. It includes classical music, folk music and jazz.

4. LIGHT MUSIC. It includes light classical music, popular tunes and songs from different sources, both traditional and new, dance music, film music and so on.

5. JAZZ. Popular music first played by Afro-American groups in the Southern USA in the early 20^th century characterized by improvisation and strong rhythms, called traditional jazz; similar music played by large bands for dancing, a later variation much influenced by the blues to produce an unhurried emotive style called modern jazz.

6. POP MUSIC is modern music of an uncomplicated character, played mainly on electric guitars and drums often with a singer.

7. DANCE MUSIC is music used for dancing including jazz and pop music.

8. BACKGROUND MUSIC is any music played softly as a background for conversation, etc. Some people put on records as background music when friends come to see them and such is increasingly heard in public places in Britain: hotel foyers, airports, supermarkets, etc.

9. CHAMBER MUSIC is orchestral, written for a chamber orchestra, but the category also includes works for smaller groups of instrumentalist or vocalists or soloists.

4. Answer the questions. Use the topical vocabulary.

1. What musical genres do you know and what role does folk music play in all of them?

2. What is meant by the terms classical or serious music, pop, rock, jazz and contemporary music?

3. What genre do you prefer?

4. What role does music play in your life?

5. Do you think that school music should be given the same emphasis as such subjects as maths, literature, etc.?

6. What is your favourite instrument? Can you play it?

7. The human voice is regarded as a most refined instrument the proper use of which requires a great deal of training. How do you feel about this characterization?

8. What do you know of video clips? How do they affect music?

5. Discuss the following quotations.

DEBUSSI: “Music is a free art, an open-air art, an art boundless as the wind, the sky, the sea.”

SHOSTAKOVITCH: “I find it impossible that an artist should wish to shut himself away from the people. I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible and if I don’t manage it, I consider it my fault.”

LONGFELLOW: “Music is the universal language of mankind.”