- •Method guide on module I
- •Introduction
- •Reading and speaking
- •Thematic vocabulary
- •1. The music may be
- •3. Musicians
- •4. Musical Instruments
- •5. Concert
- •6. Voices. Songs and tunes.
- •Task 1.4. Music Word Search. Find and circle the words from the box in the grid and discover a hidden word.
- •1. Types of Musical Instruments
- •Before the concert starts...
- •Musical instruments
- •What is the layout of the orchestra?
- •The girl from ipanema
- •Understanding Music
- •What is Classical Music?
- •Music in the Middle Ages (400-1400)
- •Renaissance music (1400-1600)
- •Baroque Music (and sometimes Rococo) (1600-1750)
- •The Classical Period (1750-1820)
- •The Romantic Period (1820-1900)
- •20Th Century Classical Music
- •The Greatest Composer Ever
- •Cakewalk
- •1. Agree or disagree with the statements given below.
- •2. Summarize the following in one or two sentences.
- •3. Comment upon the following problem.
- •Great genius of jazz
- •The Power of Music
- •Music Heals
- •There's Music in Our Speech
- •Franz Joseph Haydn
- •George Frederick Handel
- •Sergei Rachmaninov
- •Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- •Gustav Mahler
- •Giuseppe Verdi
- •Johannes Brahms
- •F rederic Chopin
- •R obert Schumann
- •Franz Schubert
- •R ichard Wagner
- •Ludwig van Beethoven
- •W olfgang Amadeus Mozart
- •Johann Sebastian Bach
- •Laboratory work listening tasks
- •An interview with a Hollywood star
- •Are these statements about Liza Minnelli, the singer and actor, true or false?
- •2 Listen to part one of the interview (Track 4.5). Correct the false statements in exercise 1. Answer the questions.
- •Listen to part two (Track 4.6). Complete the interviewer's questions.
- •4 Listen to part three (Track 4.7).
- •5 Try to remember the words from the interview.
- •1 Which two reasons does Andy give for not wanting to be famous?
- •2 Which two examples does he give of a more gratifying kind of fame?
- •3 Complete these extracts with the expressions Andy used (from exercise 2). Then listen and check.
- •Bibliography
- •Contents
- •Introduction........................................................................................1 – 3
The girl from ipanema
Tall, and tan and young and lovely,
The girl from Ipanema goes walking,
And when she passes
Each one she passes goes Ah!
These are the lyrics Antonio 'Tom' Jobim wrote down on the back of a cocktail napkin as he looked at a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl on a beach in Rio de Janeiro in 1964. And with these opening lines he not only brought about a musical revolution but also came up with one of the best known songs in the world. The 1960s craze for the bossa nova caught on and made Tom Jobim's name, and today many years later his melodies remain highly popular with singers and jazz musicians alike, and none more so than The Girl from Ipanema.
Thе musical revolution of bossa nova 'new flair' came about in the early sixties.
It was a mixture of jazz and samba and, in those days, came second in importance only to rock 'n' roll. With its cool, mellow chords, it captured the upbeat mood of a generation of Brazilians whose country was beginning to emerge as a great industrial power. Brasilia, its futuristic capital – built from scratch on an arid stretch of land in the country's interior – was nearing completion and the world was looking at the Latin American giant as a great example of modernity. Brazil became known to the rest of the world as 'the country of the future'.
“Jobim took the traditional street samba and combined it with our North American cool school,” the jazz tenor saxophonist Stan Getz said. “And that's what came out – the bossa nova.” In 1962, after a tour of Brazil, Getz and the guitarist Charlie Byrd made an LP called Jazz Samba. The album featured two Jobim songs: Samba de una nota so 'One note samba' and Desafinado 'Slightly out of tune'. Both numbers became hits and Jazz Samba was in the best seller chart in the United States for over a year.
In 1964 Getz got together with the Brazilian singers Joao and Astrud Gilberto. On the Garota de Ipanema “The Girl from Ipanema” track, Joao sang in Portuguese and Astrud joined in in English, with Getz on saxophone and Jobim on guitar. When the song came out as a single they did away with Joao Gilberto's vocal and the only voice heard on the disc was his wife Astrud's. The song went on to be an international hit, selling more than a million copies, staying at Number 5 in tne US charts for two weeks and winning a Grammy.
Soon such Jobim songs as Corcovado 'Quiet Nights', Quiet Stars achieved similar famе, and were sung by such celebrities as Ella Fitzgerald, Dionne Warwick, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. But when people think of bossa nova, it's still The Girl from Ipanema, which nearly everyone remembers and loves.
How did Tom Jobim feel about being the composer of one of the world's greatest songs? He admitted it had helped make him Brazil's foremost composer for thirty years. But towards the end of his life (he died in 1994), when audiences at concerts asked for the song he often turned them down. “A guy writes 400 songs in his life and they only remember him for one. There's no justice.”
Task 3.4. Decide if these statements are true or false.
Stan Getz was the creator of bossa nova.
Bossa nova was relaxing but optimistic music.
Tom Jobim had two successful songs in 1962.
The international version of The Girl from Ipanema was sung in Portuguese.
Tom Jobim's other songs were more successful.
He never liked playing it.
He didn't want to be known just for one song.
Task 3.5. Look at the phrases from the passage. Answer the questions and try to guess the meaning of the phrases in italics.
1 with singers and jazz musicians alike...
- Why are they alike?
...came second in importance only to rock n roll. - What was first?
...and none more so than The Girl from Ipanema. - Are Jobim's other songs more or less popular than The Girl from Ipanema?
...made Tom Jobim's name... - Made his name what?
...builtfrom scratch ... - What was there before they started building?
Task 3.6. Find phrasal verbs in the passage which are similar in meaning to the following words and phrases:
put on paper watched caused to happen composed became popular evolved played with participated was released got rid of continued its progress call to mind requested refused
Task 3.7. Work in pairs and discuss your answers to the questions.
Can you think of a song from your country which is known around the world?
Are there musicians in the past or the present which are internationally famous?
What is the most popular style of music in your country?
Has rock ever been the most popular style of music in your country?
Task 3.8.
1 Work in groups of three. Look at the list of types of music below. Add as many more kinds as you can.
classical jazz opera rock folk reggae blues
Now choose one of the types of music in your list. Think about what instruments it is played on, what country it comes from and any famous musicians who play it.
Work with another group and guess what type of music they have chosen. They must try to guess the type of music you have chosen. Take turns asking questions. You can only answer yes or no. You cannot guess the type of music until you have
received a yes answer.
Can yon dance to it? No.
Is it played by an orchestra? Yes.
Is it classical music? Yes.
4 Go round the class and find someone who shares your taste in music. Are there many people who share your taste or are you on your own?
SECTION 4. UNDERSTANDING MUSIC
Task 4.1. Look up the words and composer's names in the dictionary and practise their pronunciation.
Aesthetic, bramblestrewn, amateur, privileged, embrace, digest (v.), venture, noteworthy, submerged, assumed, stimulus, rhythm, spontaneous, whirl, gaiety, era, profitable, much-maligned, amplification, simplification, concerto, genuine, spurious.
Beethoven, Haydn, Brahms, Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, Liszt, Bizet, Richard Strauss, Lehar, Gershwin, Chopin, Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Antonio Vivaldi, Paganini.
Task 4.2. Explain the meaning of the words and word combinations below.
To blend the two, ultimate pleasure, the pathway to the works of later composers will be found to be less bramblestrewn, organised music, a professional musician vs. an amateur musician, noteworthy, operatic venture, inspiration of their heritage, to emancipate, to submerge Western-European influences, secular channels, to cling, to foster, hectic period, notwithstanding, self-appointed prophets, discontent, to be in revolt, to contemplate, to invade, immense.
Task 4.3. Read the text and note down
a) the forms of music b) the genres c) people related to music making