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第十篇(音乐jazz)
0 J8 A$ [* t) r/ v: Fwww.xiaomaguohe.netW: I 'm reading this book about jazz for that course on popular coacher I'm taking. Listen to the record by Louis Armstrong, whem someone ask him what jazz music was, he said,"if you got asked, you never know." What do you think about that? [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]0 i, Y/ O* o7 E$ z; I; M/ h
M: Oh, i don't thinkkjazz is that mysterious. I mean it just a kind of music, seems to me like a person not able to study it to break down into pieces. I took the classic music appreciation course last semester, and the professor taught us these kinds of things to listen for, to understand the music. I don't se why I couldn't do the same things to listen for classic music.
4 O3 ^. @ J3 E; ?5 Y) Z/ J [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]W: Well, for what the book said, a lot of people try to apply the rule the way music theory to jazz music, like the rule he probably learned, that you need to appreciate jazz according to its own set of rules:Analyzing jazz by the same rule as the classic music would be like using the rule for analyzing the short stories to analyze the poem.TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外 K; D9 P7 j" O# b" [
M: Oh, come in. It's obvious that the poem has different structures from the story, but just how jazz so different?TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外% c6 j9 i9 r N
W: Ok, well one example is the beat. In European music, the ground beat is built into the melody the main sound like, you can tap yous foot to it. But in jazz, the ground beat is deliberately avoided in the melody, the beat have to be established by the whole separated section instruments like the bass or drum.TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外+ j u. {* Y% I0 \
M: All right, don't give me that. Really it's a pretty important difference, but is that all?
2 o( R3 a5 U+ O7 n% n [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]W: No, there are other differnces . Like ,traditionally, classic music is based on certain type music scales: major and minor. Fortunately, all these music is built on differences and change these types of scales, but a lot of jaz is based on th blues ,and blues scale isn't major or minor.