English, IV Year, VIII Semester,

2012 – 2013 acad. year

Method guide on module I

"MAN & MUSIC"

Introduction

Task 1. Team up with a partner and choose a quote / quotes which in your opinion best describe(s) the impact of music on human's life and emotions. Give reasons why you think so.

Without music life would be a mistake. 

~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

~ Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. 

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Music is the poetry of the air.

~ Richter

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. 

~ Ludwig van Beethoven

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours.  But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places.  Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

~ H.A. Overstreet

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.  If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. 

~ Charlie Parker

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. 

~ Robert Fripp

Music's the medicine of the mind. 

~ John A. Logan

You are the music while the music lasts. .

~ T.S. Eliot

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. 

~ Robert Browning

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. 

~ Victor Hugo

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Music is an outburst of the soul. 

~ Frederick Delius

Music is what life sounds like. 

~ Eric Olson

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. 

~ Arnold Bennett

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. 

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. 

~ Alphonse de Lamartine

When words leave off, music begins. 

~ Heinrich Heine

Music is the shorthand of emotion. 

~ Leo Tolstoy

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. 

~ Confucius

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. 

~ Leigh Hunt

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. 

~ Jean Paul Richter

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. 

~ Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"

Task 2. Match the parts of the quotes. Choose the one you like most of all, explain its meaning.

Music washes away from	language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But	becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.	You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.	with you, following you right on up until you die. ~Paul Simon
Music is the universal	the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
Music is forever; music should grow and mature	If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker
Music, once admitted to the soul,	musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

PART I. THEMATIC VOCABULARY FOCUS