Types of music
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 444.
Exercise 1. Read the information about classical music. Study and memorize the topical vocabulary.
MUSIC
UNIT 6
Where can backpacker do these things? Use the key words.
1. change money
2. get a train or a bus
3. have lunch or dinner
4. see animals
5. get information
Key words: airport, bank, bus, museum, passport, police, restaurant, souvenir, station, taxi, telephone, theatre, tourist information, train, zoo.
16. Complete the dialogue with the correct verb to be.
A Excuse me. ______ there a bank near here?
B Yes, there ______.
A And ______ there souvenir shops in the centre?
B Yes, there ______ good shops in the centre.
Classical music(not classic music), high-brow music is written by a composer, e.g. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart. It is performed by an orchestra, a large group of musicians who play music together, including violins and cellos. There is a conductor, a person at the front who directs the musicians.
Sir Simon Rattle is a chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. Vanessa Mae, a violinist, was playing a violin concerto by Mozart. Pianist Sviatoslav Richter played Beethoven's piano sonatas. Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich played the cello concerto by the English composer, Edward Elgar.
Opera - a play in which the words are sung, e.g. La Boheme by Puccini, Carmen by Bizet. Opera singer Cecilia Bartoli isperforming in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
There is also a choir – a large group of singers.
Jazz – the most unique American cultural form that developed from a blending of African music with the European, particularly of the French and Spanish, e.g. Duke Ellington, Miles Davis.
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