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music songs

Types of music and songs 阿里山的姑娘 阿里山的姑娘 北国之春 莫斯科郊外的晚上 阿里山的姑娘 阿里山的姑娘 北国之春 莫斯科郊外的晚上 folk songs folk songs 爱情转移 隐形的翅膀 The Power of Love 爱情转移 隐形的翅膀 The Power of Love He was beautiful Summer time Autumn leaves He was beautiful Summer time Autumn leaves Jazz music pop songs pop songs

回到拉萨 一无所有 Take me to your heart 回到拉萨 一无所有 Take me to your heart rock’ n’ roll 春江花月夜 高山流水 十面埋伏 春江花月夜 高山流水 十面埋伏 classical music Types of music and songs

Module Three Music music songs instruments 乐器

piano pianist

flute flute

guitar

drum

violin

erhu

saxophone

singer one who sings songs

band a group of people who sing together

choir an organized group of singers, especially in church services or public performance

singer singer band band choir Module Three Music music songs instruments

composer a person who composes music

conductor one who directs an orchestra or other such group

orchestra A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments

music songs musician conductor singer composer band choir Module Three Music instrument orchestra

Reading

listen to the tape and try to get the general ideas of the passage Who are the main characters?

namebirthplace family background Haydn Mozart Beethoven Austria peasant Austria musician orchestra conductor Germany singer fill in the table according to the text

Read the passage carefully then do the True or False exercise. 1. Both Haydn and Mozart were born in Austria. 2. All of them showed the musical talent when they are young. 3. Mozart was known as “the father of the symphony.” 4. Both Mozart and Beethoven were born in musical families. 5. All of them lived in the Nineteenth century and have a short lives. 6. They all have ever lived in Austria. 7. Hayden was known as “the father of symphony” because he is the first composer who wrote symphonies. F T F F T F T

Read the part about Mozart and match the time with connected information. Mozart at a very early age when he was 4 when he was 5 when he was 6 By the time he was 14 When he was a teenager toured Europe giving concerts play in a concert for the Empress of Austria showed musical talent Learned to play the harpsichord Started composing music composed many pieces for the harpsichord,piano and violin

Read the whole text very carefully again, and fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases. Read the whole text very carefully again, and fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases.

Joseph Haydn, an Austrian ________, was born in a village and is _________ the father of the symphony. He _______ the symphony into a long piece for a large orchestra. After________ music in Vienna, he went to work at the _____ of a prince in eastern Austria. Thirty years _____, he moved to London, _____ he was very successful. composer known as changed changed studying court later where

Another Austrian composer, Mozart, was born in Salzburg. _______ he only lived 35 years, he composed _________ 600 pieces of music, Mozart had musical _____ from a very early age. _________ he was 14, he had composed many pieces for the harpsichord, piano and violin, ________ for orchestras. Though more than talent By the time as well as

In 1781 Haydn met Mozart and was very _________ with him. They were friends ______ Mozart’s death. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. When he was very young, he learned to play the violin and the piano _____ his father. impressed until from

In 1791, Beethoven met Haydn, who __________ Beethoven to move to Vienna. Beethoven became very _______ in Austria, and stayed there for the ___ of his life. Even after he became _________ deaf, he ________ composing. encouraged popular rest completely completely continued

Read the passage again and underline the language points in the passage

Find out the difficult phrases and sentences in the passage Read the passage fluently