《普通高等教育“十一五”國家級規(guī)劃教材·大學(xué)英語選修課系列·學(xué)科課程系列教材:音樂英語》以“全語言教學(xué)法”、“任務(wù)教學(xué)法”為指導(dǎo),按照“l(fā)eam bydoing”的現(xiàn)代教育理念,從音樂專業(yè)學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)需求出發(fā),將音樂專業(yè)相關(guān)資料的聽、說、讀、寫、譯活動貫穿于一系列任務(wù)之中,使學(xué)生在完成這些任務(wù)的過程中,了解專業(yè)知識,習(xí)得專業(yè)英語技能。本教材不僅提供了閱讀材料,還為音樂專業(yè)學(xué)生提高聽、說、寫技能提供了范例和應(yīng)用機會,為學(xué)生將來的國際交流打下基礎(chǔ)。
Unit 1 Musical lnstruments
Unit 2 Musical Professions
Unit 3 Musical Styles
Unit 4 Music History
Unit 5 Important People and Bands in Music
Unit 6 Basic Concepts in Music
Unit 7 Fundamentals of Music Theory
Unit 8 Music Education
Unit 9 Famous Musical Works
Unit 10 Concerts
Glossary
Traditional Chinese music is more melodic rather than harmonic. Chinese vocal music probably developed from sung poems and verses with music. Instrumental pieces played on an erhu or dizi are popular, and are often available outside China, but the pipa and zheng music, which are more traditional, are more popular in China herself. The guqin is perhaps the most revered instrument in China. The zheng is most popular in Henan, Chaozhou, Hakka and Shandong. The pipa believed to have been introduced from the Arabian Peninsula area during the 6th century and adopted to suit Chinese tastes, is most popular in Shanghai and the surrounding areas.
Beijing opera, still referred to by many English-speakers as Peking opera, is one of the most highly developed and best known of Chinese opera forms both in China and abroad. Before the 20th century, Beijing opera was not commonly performed outside Beijing and a few other centres. Its enormous popularity in the early 20th century, however, carried it to the status of "national opera". Most traditional Beijing opera music belongs to either the xipi or erhuang tune families. The combination of these two families was so integral to the opera's identity that in the past, before it was called Beijing opera (jingxi orjingju), the genre was known as pihuang opera (pihuangxi), combining the pi from xipi and the huang from erhuang.
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