- •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
Text 4.
Donna Anna expresses her despair, while Don Ottavio, her lover, offers what comfort he can. They both swear revenge on the unknown murderer.
Duetto
1. DONNA ANNA Fuggi, crudele, fuggi! Lascia che mora anch’io, Ora ch’è morto, oh Dio, Chi a me la vita diè.
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3. DONNA ANNA Tu sei… perdon, mio bene… L’affanno mio, le pene… Ah, il padre mio dov’è? |
5. DONNA ANNA Ah! Vendicar, se il puoi, Giura quel sangue ognor! |
7. DONNA ANNA and DON OTTAVIO Che giuramento, o dei! Che barbaro momento! Fra cento affetti e cento, vammi ondeggiando il cor! |
2. DON OTTAVIO Senti, cor mio, deh! Senti, Guardami un solo istante, Ti parla il caro amante, Che vive sol per te |
4. DON OTTAVIO Il padre… Lascia, o cara, La rimembranza amara… Hai sposo e padre in me |
6. DON OTTAVIO Lo guiro agli occhi tuoi, Lo guiro al nostro amor! |
Leporello, in his catalogue aria, lists, by way of consolation, Don Giovanni’s many conquests: 640 women in Italy, 231 in Germany, a hundred in France, 91 in Turkey and in Spain now 1003 – women of all classes, ages and degrees of beauty.
Aria
Madamina, il catalogo è questo
delle belle che amò il pardon mio;
un catalogo egli è che ho fatti’io.
osservate, leggete con me.
In Italia seicento e quaranta (640)
in Almagna duecento e trentuna (231)
cento (100) in Francia, in Turchia novantuna (91),
ma in Ispagna son già mille e tre! (1003)
V’han fra queste contandine,
cameriere e cittadine,
v’han contesse, baronesse,
marchesane, principesse,
e v’han donne d’ogni grado,
d’ogni forma, d’ogni età.
In Italia, ecc.
Nella bionda egli ha l’usanza
di lodar la gentilezza,
nella brunta la contanza,
nella Bianca la dolcezza.
Vuol d’inverno la grassotta,
vuol d’estate la magrotta;
è la grande maestosa,
la piccina è ognor vezzosa…
Delle vecchie fa conquista
pel piacer
di porle in lista:
sua passion predominante
è la giovin principiante.
Non si pica se sia ricca,
se sia brutta, se sia bella;
purché porti la gonnella,
voi sapete quell che fa! ecc.
Don Giovanni takes Zerlina’s hand, to lead her into the castle, but she suspects that he is not serious and, in any case, is attached to Masetto. Eventually, they make to go off together, arm in arm.
Duettino
1. DON GIOVANNI Là ci darem la mano là mi dirai di sì. Vedi, non è lontano; partiam, ben mio, da qui.
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3. DON GIOVANNI Vieni, mio bel diletto! ZERLINA Mi fa pieta Masetto DON GIOVANNI Io cangerò tua sorte. ZERLINA Presto, non son più forte! DON GIOVANNI Vieni, vieni! ecc. |
4. DON GIOVANNI and ZERLINA Andiam, andiam, mio bene, a ristorar le pene d’un innocente amor! ecc. |
2. ZERLINA (Vorrei e non vorrei; mi trema un poco il cor. Felice, è ver, sarei, ma può burlarmi ancor.) |