Make up short situations or a story using the essential vocabulary.

9. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Она поклялась никогда не переступать порог этого дома. 2. Учитель задал ученикам трудную задачу. 3. Он откашлялся и продолжал рассказ. 4. Опасность миновала, можно было действовать без промедления. 5. Дети, давайте поаплодируем артистам. 6. С одной стороны, работа была трудной, с другой — очень заманчивой. 7. Через несколько минут корабль должен был пойти ко дну, и капитан приказал команде покинуть его. 8. Водитель резко повернул машину, чтобы не столкнуться с автобусом, идущим навстречу. 9. Старая леди была шокирована грубыми манерами молодого доктора. 10. Соберитесь с мыслями и начните ответ сначала. 11. Несколько слов, случайно оброненных им, наводили на мысль, что все сказанное было чистейшей выдумкой. 12. У нее ужасно болела голова, но она, не обращая внимания на боль, продолжала работать. 13. Грейс возмущалась, когда ее называли ребенком.

1. She has sworn never to cross the threshold of this house. 2. The teacher has set a difficult problem to pupils. 3. He cleared his throat and continued the story. 4. The danger passed, and it was possible to act delay (immediately). 5. Children, let cheer to the actors. 6. On the one hand, the work was difficult, on the another it was very tempting. 7. In some minutes the ship would have to go to the bottom (to founder), so the captain ordered the crew to abandon her. 8. The driver sharply turned the machine aside in order not to come into collision the bus going towards. 9. The old lady has been shocked with the rough manners of the young doctor. 10. Collect the thoughts/yourself and start the answer from the beginning. 11. Some words, casually dropped by him, put us thought / idea into our mind / head that all told was the absolutest fib. 12. Her head ached awfully but she continued to work without paying [any] attention to the pain. 13. Hreis resented when she was named (as) a child.

10. a) Give the Russian equivalents for the following English proverbs:

1. He who pays the piper calls the tune. – Кто платит, тот и заказывает музыку

2. Don't take your harp to the party. – Не бери свою волынку на чужую вечеринку.

3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. – Лучше синица в руках, чем журавль в небе. Лучше одна птичка в руках, чем две в кустах. Лучше воробей в руке, чем петух на крыше Лучше голубь на тарелке, чем тетерев на току Ср. Не сули журавля в небе, дай синицу в руки. –
• one today is worth two tomorrows • A sparrow in the hand is better than a cock on the roof • Better a dove on the plate than a woodgrouse in the mating place • Better a tomtit in your hand than a crane in the sky

b) Explain in English the meaning of each proverb.

c) Make up a dialogue to illustrate one of the proverbs.

 

CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION MAN AND MUSIC

TOPICAL VOCABULARY

1. Musical genres (styles): classical music (instrumental, vocal, chamber, symphony), opera, operetta, musical, ballet, blues, ragtime, jazz, pop, rock, folk (country - кантри) music, electronic music, background music (музыкальный фон), incidental music (музыка, сопровождающая фильм, спектакль).

2. Musical forms: piece, movement (часть), sonata, aria, fantasy, suite, rhapsody, concerto, solo, duet, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet (etc.), chorus.

3. Musical rhythms: polka, waltz, march, blues, ragtime, jazz, swing (свинг), bassanova(?), sambo, disco, rock.

4. Musical instruments: (string group): violin, viola (альт), celo, bass, harp (арфа); (wind group): flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon (фагот); (brass group – медные духовые): trumpet, French horn, tuba; (percussion ­ выстукивание, перкуссия), piano, accordion, guitar, saxophone, synthesizer, acoustic, electronique, electric instruments.

5. Music makers: composer, conductor, musician, soloist, virtuoso, minstreller group, team, band, orchestra.

6. Music making: to write authentically Russian, Afro-American, etc. music, to compose, to arrange, to transcribe (аранжировать, транскрибировать), to make music, to perform, to improvise, to interpret, to accompany, to complete.

7. Musical equipment: tape-recorder, video cassette-recorder, tuner, amplifier, player, equalizer, (loud) speaker, turn-table.

8. Musical events: (made up) concert, recital – а) сольный концерт (даваемый одним исполнителем) б) концерт или программа, состоящие из произведений одного композитора, jam session – джем-сейшен (особый тип джазового мероприятия, на котором музыканты совместно импровизируют), festival, competition.

9. Miscellany: major, flat, baton (дирижёрская палочка), bow (поклон), drum sticks (барабанные палочки), under the baton, single, album, track, record jacket (sleeve), score (партитура), spiritual (церковный), beat (5) такт, ритм; движение дирижерской палочки, дирижирование 6) размер, ритм), video-clip, syncopation, harmony.

Names of Notes

Russian	до	ре	ми	фа	соль	ля	си
English	С	D	E	F	G	A	В

Understanding Music

If we were asked to explain the purpose of music, our immediate reply might be "to give pleasure". That would not be far from the truth, but there are other considerations.

We might also define music as "expression in sound", or "the expression of thought and feeling in an aesthetic form", and still not arrive at an understanding of its true purpose. We do know, however, even if we are not fully conscious of it that music is a part of living that it has the power to awaken (будить, пробуждать) in us sensations and emotions of a spiritual kind.

Listening to music can be an emotional experience or an intellectual exercise. If we succeed in blending the two, without excess in either case, we are on the road to gaining the ultimate pleasure from music. Having mastered the gift of listening to, say, a Haydn symphony, the ear and mind should be ready to admit Mozart, then to absorb Beethoven, then Brahms. After that, the pathway (тропа; тропинка; дорожка; дорога, путь) to the works of later composers will be found to be less bramble strewn than we at first imagined.

Music, like language, is a living, moving thing. In early times organised music belonged to the church; later it became the property of the privileged few. Noble families took the best composers and the most talented performers into their service.

While the status of professional musicians advanced, amateur musicians found in music a satisfying means of self-expression, and that form of expression broadened in scope to embrace forms and styles more readily digested by the masses.

It is noteworthy that operas at first were performed privately; that the first "commercial" operatic venture took place early in the seventeenth century, this leading to the opening of opera houses for the general public in many cities.

By the middle of the nineteenth century, composers were finding more and more inspiration (вдохновение, воодушевление) of their heritage (наследство; наследие). The time had come to emancipate the music of their country from the domination of "foreign" concepts and conventions.

One of the first countries to raise the banner was Russia, which had various sources of material as bases of an independent musical repertory, Russian folk songs and the music of the old Russian Church.

The composer to champion this cause was Glinka, who submerged Western-European influences by establishing a new national school.

Glinka's immediate successor was Dargomizhsky, then Balakirev. His own creative output was comparatively small; he is best remembered as the driving force in establishing "The Mogutschaya Kuchka", a group which included Borodin, Cui, Moussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) worked independently and was the first Russian composer to win widespread international recognition.

It is a narrow line that divides Operetta from Musical Comedy, both blending music and the spoken word. When we think of operetta, such titles come to mind as The Gipsy Baron (Johann Strauss), The Merry Widow and The Count of Luxembourg (Lehar). Of recent years these have been replaced in popular favour by "Musicals"~which placed more emphasis on unity and theatrical realism, such as Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music and West Side Story.

In early times instrumental music broke away from occasions associated with sacred worship into secular channels. In succeeding generations instrumental players were engaged to provide music for various public functions. Humble bands of players developed into small orchestras, these in time to symphony orchestras. Later, orchestras of the cafe type assumed increased numerical strength and more artistic responsibility, while "giving the public what it wants".

For many generations Band Music (оркестровая музыка) — music played by military bands, brass bands, and pipe bands on the march, in public parks, and in concert halls — has held its place in public favour, especially in Great Britain.

At the turn of the present century American popular music was still clinging to established European forms and conventions. Then a new stimulus arrived by way of the Afro-Americans who injected into their music-making African chants and rhythms which were the bases of their spirituals and work songs.

One of the first widespread Afro-American influences was Ragtime, essentially a style of syncopated piano-playing that reached its peak about 1910. Ragtime music provided the stimulus for the spontaneous development of jazz, a specialized style in music which by the year 1920 had become a dominating force in popular music, and New Orleans, one of the first cities to foster it.

In the early twenties America became caught up in a whirl of post-war gaiety. The hectic period would later be known as the Jazz Era. Soon jazz had begun its insistent migration across the world. While Black musicians of America were recognised as the true experts in the jazz field, the idiom attracted white musicians, who found it stimulating and profitable to form bands to play in the jazz style. Prominent among these white band-leaders were Paul Whiteman and George Gershwin, whose 1924 Rapsody in Blue was the first popular jazz concerto.

While many self-appointed prophets were condemning jazz as vulgar, and others smugly foretelling its early death, some notable European composers attempted to weave the jazz idiom into their musical works. These included Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich.

(Here one is reminded that several composers, including Debussy, Ravel, Liszt, Bizet and Richard Strauss, befriended the much-maligned saxophone, invented about the middle of the nineteenth century, and introduced it into the concert-hall.)

Before we leave George Gershwin, we should mention his Porgy and Bess which brought something daringly different to opera: the music, Gershwin's own, sounds so authentically Afro-American, that it is surprising that this rich score was written by a white American.

We are forced to contemplate the fact, that notwithstanding (несмотря на, вопреки) the achievements of Debussy, Stravinsky and many others, the experience of music in the western art tradition remains essentially unchanged. It's still composed by highly trained specialists and played by professional musicians in concert halls.

There was a time in the sixties when it looked as if the situation was about to be broken up by a new and revolutionary popular music of unprecedented and unexpected power. The so-called "Rock Revolution" began in fact in the mid-fifties, and was based firmly on the discontent of the younger generation who were in revolt against the values of their elders; naturally they espoused new musical values, and equally naturally these values represented a negation of everything in the musical world their elders inhabited — the virtual elimination of harmony, or at least its reduction to the few conventional progressions of the blues, an emphasis on the beat, new type of voice production owing much to sophisticated use of amplification and simplification of instrumental technique.

There followed rapidly an extraordinary musical eruption based on the percussive sound of the electric guitar, the rock'n'roll beat and blues harmony.

We should remember that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and many other leading groups and individual performers from the early sixties onward based their music on the sound of electric guitars and percussion.

Now what? In this technological age it is not surprising that electronics should have invaded the field of music. This new phase has brought experiments intended to give music of the popular genre a new sound. Though many may be alarmed at such explorative tampering with sound, it must be admitted that the possibilities of electronically-produced music are immense.

Never before has music — all kinds of music — been so popular. Never before has the world had greater need of its stimulation and comfort. We find the ultimate satisfaction in music, be it "classical" or "popular", when we have learnt how to reject the spurious and accept the genuine; when we have learnt how to listen.

1. As you read the text a) look for the answers to these questions:

1. What is the purpose of music in your opinion? Music is a special means and way of feelings transferring from the one man to another. It is a language that is understandable for a heart and brain directly..

Can music be defined in only one way?

2. In what genres did the music develop?

1. Musical genres (styles): classical music (instrumental, vocal, chamber, symphony), opera, operetta, musical, ballet, blues, ragtime, jazz, pop, rock, folk (country - кантри) music, electronic music, background music (музыкальный фон), incidental music (музыка, сопровождающая фильм, спектакль).

3. What was the Russian contribution to the art of music?

One of the first countries to raise the banner was Russia, which had various sources of material as bases of an independent musical repertory, Russian folk songs and the music of the old Russian Church.

4. In what way did instrumental music become engaged for various functions?

5. What created the development of jazz and who facilitated the development?

While Black musicians of America were recognised as the true experts in the jazz field, the idiom attracted white musicians, who found it stimulating and profitable to form bands to play in the jazz style. Prominent among these white band-leaders were Paul Whiteman and George Gershwin, whose 1924 Rapsody in Blue was the first popular jazz concerto.

6. How did the youth of the 60-s respond to the highly trained specialist and professional music?

There followed rapidly an extraordinary musical eruption based on the percussive sound of the electric guitar, the rock'n'roll beat and blues harmony.

7. In your opinion should musicians have musical training?

8. What do you know about the Beatles and their contribution to the pop-music world?

9. In your opinion how will the technological age through radio, television and video influence the world of music?

b) Find in the text the facts the author gives to illustrate the following:

1. Music like language is a living moving thing. 2. Music may be used as the lines of communication between people. 3. Jazz does not cling to dance rhythms any longer, as the 20th century European music reflects African rhythms.

c) Summarize the text in five paragraphs specifying the development of 1) opera, 2) operetta and musicals, 3) instrumental music, 4) jazz and 5) rock.

2. Use the topical vocabulary in answering the following questions:¹

1. What musical genres do you know and what role does folk music play in all of them?

classical music (instrumental, vocal, chamber, symphony), opera and operetta, ballet,
jazz, pop, rock, folk music,

Folk music is the initial stage, it’s cause and motive.

2. What is meant by the terms classical or serious music, pop, rock, jazz and contemporary music?

Classical music is performed with classical instruments and is composed by the gifted composers having high musical education. As a rule such music is remained in the mind of people forever. The music of other genres is composed by the ordinary people, they are teenagers sometimes without any education, gift, connection with any traditions and such music has a very short time, not exceeding seven years.

3. Do you think the different musical genres named above are strictly separated or do they overlap in some ways? In what ways? What genre do you prefer?

They all overlap. Ballet and instrumental and vocal music make opera. Operetta is a opera in miniature. Ballet is performed under symphony music. Folk music is the initial base of all classical genres.

4. What role does music play in your life? Do you want music just to make you happy or does the music that you prefer vary with your mood? How does it vary?

5. Do you think that at school music should be given the same emphasis as subjects such as maths, literature, etc.?

6. Of which instruments does a symphony/chamber orchestra consist? What are the most popular instruments of pop groups, jazz or rock?

7. Why has the guitar become a very popular instrument in recent years? Do you prefer V. Vysotsky's performances with an entire orchestra or simply with a guitar? Why?

8. What is your favourite instrument? Can you play it? Does it help you to understand music?

9. The human voice is regarded as a most refined instrument the proper use of which requires a great deal of training. How do you feel about this characterization? Who are your favourite singers?

10. Do you like opera? Do you agree with the opinion that operas are hard to follow while musicals are more up-to-date and easier to understand? What other forms have appeared of late?

11. How can you account for the large scale popularity of rock? Is it only an entertainment to young people or does rock music represent their values? What values?

12. Why are some rock fans less interested in the music of the past? Can you think of any similar examples when people attracted by a new style of music forget about the past?

13. What do you know about video clips? How do they affect music?

14. What do you know about the International Tchaikovsky Competitions? How often are they held and on what instruments do contestants perform? Can you give some names of prize winners or laureates of the Tchaikovsky Competitions? What do you know about their subsequent careers?

¹ You may wish to bring in record jackets (sleeves), tapes, and advertisements for concerts or programmes, which depict current popular or classical music. These can serve as supplementary materials for several activities in the unit.

3. Give your impressions of a concert (recital) you have recently attended. Use the topical vocabulary. Outline for giving impressions:

1. Type of event. A concert of organ music, recital 2. What orchestra, group performed? Valeriya Balakhovska, a prominent and well-known Ukrainian organist. 3. Programme. Were the musical pieces well-known, popular, new, avant-guard, etc.? She played J.S.Bach’s works and some unknown for me, for ex. Joseph Bonnet’s Variations de concert op. I 4. Who was the conductor? 5. Was the event interesting and enjoyable in your opinion? Yes, it was very interesting and very enjoyable, it was excellent. I have been keeping delighted

ted since the concert. 6. Name the soloists. 7. What did critics say about the event? Do you share their points of view? 8. What impression did the event make on you? Did you take a solemn oath never to attend one again?

4. Pair work. Make up and act out a dialogue. (Use the clichés of agreement, disagreement and reacting to opinion or persuasion (pp. 287, 290, 291):

1. You are at a concert of contemporary music, about which you are not very knowledgeable. Your friend tries to initiate you in it. 2. Your father/mother cannot stand rock music and he/she never listens to it. You try to convince him/her that rock music is important in your life. 3. You are talking on the telephone with your friend who wants you to accompany her to a piano recital. You are reluctant to join her. 4. You are an accomplished jazz musician. But you never participated in jazz sessions. Your friend urges you to be more daring and try your hand at it. 5. Your sister has just come back from the Bolshoi Theatre where she heard Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila. She tries to describe how much she enjoyed the opera, but you, being no great lover of opera music, turn a deaf ear. 6. You are fond of Tchaikovsky's music and always ready to talk about it. Your friend asks you to tell him/her more.