- •Unit 1. Classical Music
- •Is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils;
- •1. Are you a music lover? What role does music play in your life? Express your ideas in a 2-page composition “Music in My Life”.
- •2. Comment on the excerpt from “The Merchant of Venice” given above. Do you agree that one can’t trust a person who is indifferent to music?
- •Recital – evening – prom
- •Item – work – piece
- •Part – movement
- •Concert – concerto – recital – show
- •Part – movement – item – number – work
- •To play the… - to play from music – to read music
- •Miscellanea
- •There’s music in our speech
- •1. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases:
- •2. Which idiom best fills each space?
- •3. All the following sentences include a musical idiom, with one word missing. Use the words below to complete the sentences.
- •Exercises
- •Renaissance (c.1400 – c.1600)
- •Baroque (c.1600 – c.1750)
- •Classical (c.1750 – c.1830)
- •Early Romantic (c.1830 – c.1860)
- •Late Romantic (c.1860 – c.1920)
- •The Post ‘Great War’ Years (1920 to the present day)
- •Exercises
- •Speaking “for” and “against” classical music
- •Exercises
- •Exercises
- •Mr. Smeeth Goes to a Symphony Concert
- •Exercises
- •Wood-wind instruments
- •Position of players in a modern orchestra
- •(From ‘Incidental Music to “a Midsummer Night’s Dream”)
- •A Guide to Classical Listening
- •Exercises
- •Exercises
- •Mozart’s don giovanni opens in prague
- •Exercises
- •The pros and cons of rock/pop music
- •Exercises
- •The language of rock
- •Exercises
- •Справка
- •Folk music
- •Exercises
- •Jazz, sound of surprise
- •Exercises
- •The tunes you can’t refuse
- •Exercises
- •1. A description of the subject.
- •2. Detailed comments on the successful and unsuccessful features of the subject.
- •3. Summing up and recommendation.
- •Music on the mind
- •Music – the drug of choice for Britain’s Olympians
- •С Бахом… под Майкла Джексона
- •Exercises
- •Types of Music
- •1. Classical music
- •12. Orchestral music
- •13. Chamber music
- •Concert, Recital, Evening
- •14. Concert
- •15. Recital
- •16. Evening
- •17. Verbs used with concert/recital
- •Listen is not used here. Nor should it be used in translating such sentences as:
- •Concert Programmes and repertoires
- •18. Work, item, number, piece
- •19. Repertoire, repertory
- •Classical Works
- •Instrumental Works
- •Concertos are written for an orchestra with solo instrument(s) and the instrument is often specified as follows: a piano concerto, a violin concerto, Beethoven’s third piano concerto, etc.
- •26. Movement, part
- •27. Special names for musical works
- •Vocal Works
- •28. Song
- •29. Use of on with names of instruments
- •Some Common Musical Terms Note, Music, score
- •33. Choir, chorus
- •34. Types of choir
- •A Symphony Orchestra (Instruments and Players)
- •36. Conductor, leader
- •37. Tune, Melody, Theme, Subject
- •38. Types of Opera grand opera – (an) opera with a serious story in which all the words are sung
- •39. Opera Singers
- •40. Use of articles with opera
- •42. Modern Music
- •To cut a single
- •To disband (see also split up)
- •Drummer
- •To be/become a one-hit wonder
- •Supplementary materials Text 1.
- •Text 2.
- •Text 3.
- •Text 4.
- •Text 5.
- •Text 6.
- •Rethinking mozart On the 250th anniversary of his birth, a more realistic picture of the composer's musical genius is emerging.
- •Exercises
- •1. Practise reading the words from the text. Learn their Russian equivalents.
- •2. Define the following words and word-combinations. Say in what context they were used in the article.
- •3. Explain the difference between:
- •Text 7.
- •Styles of Jazz
- •Text 8. Evita (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice)
- •1. A Cinema In Buenos Aires, 26 July 1952
- •9. The Lady's Got Potential
- •10. Charity Concert/The Art Of The Possible
- •13. A New Argentina
- •14. On The Balcony Of The Casa Rosada 1
- •19. Rainbow Tour
- •Contents
- •Unit 5. The Effects of Music on the Human System ………………71
- •A short guide to composer data ………………………………………………….163 sources
40. Use of articles with opera
Opera may be used with either the definite or the indefinite article, as follows:
I’m going to the opera. – meaning to that type of entertainment, as in I’m going to the theatre.
I’m going to an opera. – meaning to one of the operas which exist, as in I’m going to a play.
In the second type of sentence, hear may be included, although this is not very common:
e.g. I’m going to hear an opera.
41. Some Well-Known Operas
Opera |
|
Composer |
The Queen of Spades |
(«Пиковая Дама») |
Tchaikovsky |
Boris Godunov |
(«Борис Годунов») |
Mussorgsky |
Khovanshina |
(«Хованщина») |
Mussorgsky |
Prince Igor |
(«Князь Игорь») |
Borodin |
Russlan and Ludmilla |
(«Руслан и Людмила») |
Glinka |
Sadko |
(«Садко») |
Rimski-Korsakov |
Aida |
(«Аида») |
Verdi |
Rigoletto |
(«Риголетто») |
Verdi |
Traviata |
(«Травиата») |
Verdi |
The Barber of Seville |
(«Севильский Цирюльник») |
Rossini |
Madame Butterfly |
(«Чио Чио Сан») |
Puccini |
Tosca |
(«Тóска») |
Puccini |
Carmen |
(«Кармен») |
Bizet |
42. Modern Music
a
album
(sb’) concept/debut/solo/hit album
to release/make/record an album
sb’s album remained unreleased
sb’s album went/was (2,3, etc. times) gold/platinum
e.g. All the group’s hit singles have been collected on an album.
a pirate copy of the album
arrange
arranger
arrangement
e.g. The fiddling style and musical arrangements of Wills had a major influence on later country artists.
audience
to extract a phenomenal reaction from audiences
b
back
back vocal
backing, a backing singer/group
(to sing as) a back-up vocalist
e.g. Who is on backing vocals?
ballad
band
a cult band
a boy band / a girl band
bass
a bass-player (=bassist)
e.g. He formed a new band with his brother on bass/playing bass.
c
career
e.g. Her chequered musical career is indeed the stuff of storybooks.
CD
e.g. The band’s new CD marks a welcome return to form.
e.g. Have a listen to this CD!
e.g. The group has a new CD in the pipeline.
e.g. They played the CD at full volume.
e.g. All the profits from the sales of the CD will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
e.g. I’m going to put my new CD on.
a poor quality pirate CD
charts (the)
e.g. Her song has been in the charts for weeks.
to break the charts
to displace sb from the top of the charts
chart-topper, chart-topping
e.g. It’s his recent chart-topping single.
to reach the top ten on the Billboard magazine popular music charts
clip
music clip
collaborate
e.g. The song is one of her recent collaborations with major recording artists.
concert
to give a worldwide satellite concert
copy
e.g. Her first album sold 100,000 copies.
cover
cover or cover version
e.g. They did a brilliant cover of the old Abba song.
cross between:
e.g. Most of their music is a cross between jazz and rock.
to cross over to
e.g. Several Latino singers have crossed over into mainstream rock.
to cut