Unit 3 Art for Art’s Sake
Active reading (1)
Reading and understanding
2 Choo the best answer to the questions.
大耳朵图图本子1 Why does the writer divide listening to music into three types of experience?
(a) It is important to keep the different types of experience parate.
(b) It makes it easier to understand what is happening when we listen to music.
(c) It is the traditional way of referring to the experience of listening.
(d) Different people listen on different planes, according to the type of person they are.
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2 What is the main characteristic of the nsuous plane?
(a) It is the sort of feeling we get when listening to music on the radio.
(b) It can only be experienced by people who aren’t musicians. 春节100字作文
(c) It is a reaction we have which is generated by the sound of the music.
(d) It does not give us any real n of pleasure. (It does give us pleasure.)
3 What is the main characteristic of the expressive plane?
(a) It can only be experienced by intelligent people.
(b) It is when we believe the compor is communicating something to us.
(c) It is a controversial concept; some compors don’t think it exists.
(d) It is most obviously apparent in the music of Stravinsky.
4 What is the main characteristic of the musical plane?
(a) It can only be experienced by people who have studied to read music.
(b) It is the ability to experience different musical elements.
(c) It is the plane that we experience instinctively, without realizing it.
(d) It is the easiest of the three planes to appreciate.
5 How do most people usually listen to music?
(a) On only one plane at any given moment.
(b) On all three planes at the same time.
(c) Without paying enough attention.
(d) Without understanding what they are doing.
6 Why does the writer end the passage by referring to the theatre?
(a) The theatre also offers three types of experience.
(b) Compors are like the characters in a play.
(c) Theatre is the form of art which is most similar to music.
(d) The audience in a theatre are like musicians in an orchestra.
3 Match the listeners’ activities with the planes they are on.
1 They understand the way the compor is thinking.
(c) musical plane
2 They are doing something el at the same time.
(a) nsuous plane
3 They recognize different elements in the music.
(c) musical plane
4 They just want to escape from everyday reality.
(a) nsuous plane
5 They feel sad or happy becau of the music.
(b) expressive plane
6 They think the music they are listening to has a meaning.
(b) expressive plane
Dealing with unfamiliar words
4 Match the words in the box with their definitions.
1 to make up or form something (constitute)
2 happening or done at the same time (simultaneously)
3 able to do something becau you have the knowledge, skill, or experience that is needed (qualified)
4 a regular pattern of sounds in music that you can show by moving, hitting your hands together, or hitting a drum or other surface (rhythm)
5 to receive or obtain something from something el (derive)
6 someone who writes music, especially classical music (compor)
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7 as much as is needed (sufficiently)
5 Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the words in Activity 4.
Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the greatest (1) compor the world has ever known. His 土豆凉粉Well- Tempered Clavichord (2) constitutes one of the most complete works for keyboard ever written. It is (3) simultaneously both a ries of technical exercis which explore the possibilities of the keyboard, and a masterpiece of expressive feeling. Although he was a highly (4) qualified musician (as an organist and a choirmaster), he was not considered to be (5) sufficiently 财神壁纸“modern” by the generation which followed小花猫的外貌描写 him, and he was soon forgotten. But his music was rediscovered in the 19th century, for its perfect n of (6) rhythm and harmony. Indeed, many of the great compors of the 20th century, such as Stravinsky, (7) derived a lot of their musical ideas from him.
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6 Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the words and expressions in the box. You may need to make other changes.
1 Shh! They’re about to announce the winner of this year’s International Piano Competition. (proclaim)
2 It’s quite easy to make a comparison between poetry and music. (analogy)
It’s quite easy to make an analogy between poetry and music.
3 We are amazed by her ability to express herlf with great clearness and simplicity. (clarity)
4 How many artists have given up everything for the cau of their art? (for the sake of)
5 Internet emerges as a powerful and effective force in advertising new products. (potent)
6 I enjoyed the performance, but I thought the clothes the actors were wearing were a bit silly. (costumes)
7 Answer the questions about the words and expressions.
